Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 127
Social Peace 127 The new ‘down with the Third World’ rhetoric developing in the United States since the 1970’s was tied to Israel, and its champions such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jean Kirkpatrick have regarded Israel as an ally and an inspiration. p. 222 Vladimir Jabotinsky, the leader of right wing Zionism before World War II, was quite blunt about the alliance between Zionism and imperialism. . . . Zionism has the unshakeable resolve to keep the whole Mediterranean in European hands. . . . In every East-West conflict, we will always be on the side of the West, for the West has represented a more superior culture than the East over the last thousand years after the destruction of the Baghdad caliphate by the Mongols. . . . and we today are the most prominent loyal bearers of the culture. . . . We can never support the Arab movement which is at present opposed to us, and we are heartily pleased at every mishap to this movement. . . . (Brenner, 1984 pp. 75–77) p. 227 The idea of liberation for Third World group threatens the very essence of Zionism. Concepts of human rights are too dangerous for the Israeli political system. . . . The injustice done to the Palestinians is so clear and so striking that it cannot be openly discussed and any discussion of what Israel has been doing in the Third World is certain to lead to an examination of the rights of Palestinians. . . . They (Israelis) are quick to denounce the rest of the world as hypocritical when issues of human rights and universal justice are discussed. In that they are quite similar to white South Africans. p. 236–237