Dangers of imperialism

Letters

Editor: In December 2001, former Iranian president Ayatollah Rafsanjani called on Muslims to destroy Israel with a nuclear bomb. He admitted this would kill a lot of Muslims too, but implied that these would be acceptable losses since there would be plenty left. In April 1990, Saddam Hussein threatened to "burn half of Israel" with chemical weapons if attacked (apparently the Palestinians cheering him on believed he had a way to avoid "frying" them).

Those who try to reduce the war against the Jewish state to the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict" portray Israel as a Goliath with the Palestinians cast as David. But they ignore the wider context that many in the Arab world, along with non-Arab collaborators in Iran's Khomeinist regime and elsewhere, want to annihilate Israel, perpetrating a second Holocaust by murdering over one third of the world's Jews. So who is the real Goliath? The situation at the UN reveals the true picture.

Anti-Israel "progressives," claiming sensitivity towards the Holocaust, seem oblivious to the present danger. By downplaying or ignoring widespread human rights abuses and Nazi-like Jew-hatred in the Muslim world, they have become lapdogs of Islamist imperialism. No wonder they give no support to the Iranians currently trying to overthrow their Khomeinist "terror masters."

Dan Sonnenschein
Vancouver

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