Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 126
126 islam’s response to contemporary issues I have deep-seated fears that we are entering a new era of global racialism of the most heinous type, which may be further aided and abetted, by a section of the Zionists’ political leadership. If Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of the University of Haifa and author of The Israeli Connection: Whom Israel Arms and Why * is to be taken seriously, and if the evidence he has produced of the well-formed and well-defined political philosophy of the Zionists, is to be considered authentic it augurs ill indeed for the prospects of world peace. The following picture of the role played and of that yet to be played by Israel in global affairs emerges: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father, said in January 1957: From the point of view of our existence and security, the friendship of one European country is more valuable than the view of all the people of Asia. (Medzini, 1976; p. 75) p. 5. . . Israel’s own concern for regaining its superiority against the Arabs has come to coincide with the American goal of halting imperial decline. p. 205 What the modern right-winger loves is the Israeli—tall, tough, armed with an Uzi and killing dark-skinned natives in a triumph over the forces of Third World radicalism. That is how Argentine generals, Paraguayan colonels, and Afrikaner brigadiers have come to love Israelis. p. 218 * Published 1988 by I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, London.