We already know that being a world leader in women’s rights, gay rights, minority rights, and judicial independence isn’t enough to make Israel attractive to the Left. I wonder if the fact that Israel is so democratic that it lets Arabs sit in the Knesset and make laws even when their party is involved in suicide bombings will help convince the Left of Israel’s progressive credentials (incidentally, it’s always a fun game to watch oh-so-well-read Chomskyites on American campuses find out for the first that Arab parties sit in the Knesset). Somehow I doubt it.
Police and the Shin Bet uncovered a terror infrastructure involving Israeli Arabs from the village of Reine near Nazareth that was funded and assisted by the Hizbullah. Two cell members, brothers from the village, who are members of the Balad political party, were arrested in the early stages in setting up the cell, thus thwarting their plans to launch suicide bomb attacks against Israel.
The irony, of course, is that Hezbollah ever succeeded in making Israel into an Islamofascist haven with a Syrian political system, these guys would be in a dark room somewhere right now, getting their toenails pulled out. This is before we get to the discussion of things like “political parties,” which are anathema to the Arab world.
