Are you feeling uncertain in your political ideology? Do you want to be reassured that you’re right for thinking that Arab diplomacy is pathological and delusional? We’re happy to help:
Maamoun Fandy of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London said the Arab League is unlikely to push Khartoum on Washington’s behalf unless the U.S. changes its policy toward Israel. “Darfur is horrific, but also what is taking place in Palestine … is horrific, so unless the menu includes movement on the Palestinian issue, the Arabs will not bite on that Darfur issue,” said Fandy. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit spoke alongside Rice Tuesday and told reporters the Palestinian issue was central to the Middle East’s problems. He said a large part of Rice’s meet ing with the six Arab Gulf states, Jordan and Egypt was devoted to Darfur.
This is just the terminus of moral equivalence: if you can get away with lying about ethics (pretending that the Israelis have the same intentions toward the Arabs that the Arabs have toward Israel) then why not lie about reality (that Jews are doing the same thing in the West Bank that the Muslims are doing in Sudan)? This is the result of excusing decades of irrational, anti-Semiticish fantasies (Israeli well-poisoning, organ-harvesting, ect.) as “anti-Zionism”: the Arabs think that people actually take their libels seriously, and now we can’t do anything about genocide because of it. Good job, UN!
