The Guardian wants to sacrifice Israel to appease angry Muslim protesters, writing in a staff-ed:
At a time of high tension between the western and Muslim worlds over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad – one inflammatory response has been a call for jihad against Israel – cool heads and an attempt to de-escalate would be helpful. Of the many issues where these worlds come into conflict, the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians would be a good place – though not the easiest – to make a start.
But as Adloyadah aptly points out:
[The Guardian] doesn’t feel the need to point out that the “high tension” is actually a highly organized series of increasingly threatening, vandalistic and even lethal demonstrations and state actions by what are arguably unrepresentative groups of Muslims. They are responding to the publication of cartoons by a Christian cartoonist in a newspaper in a Christian country which does not control the contents of its newspapers. There is no shortage of Muslim bloggers who, while finding the cartoons offensive, have exposed and condemned what they see as opportunist and manufactured rage by unrepresentative groups of extremist Islamists and allied states with agendas.
So if they don’t see any need to link this to any issue about Israel, and only Iran and the most extremist Islamist groups do, why does the Guardian feel it needs to do so?
What has all this to do with the state of Israel?
Unfortunately, this desire to sacrifice Israel is also gathering steam in the UN and Europe, as we blogged earlier today.
