All the talk about "zionist money," and other complete fabrications and outright lies about Israel is eye-opening. Usually, I look at talk backs with a grain of salt, there will always be loonies. However, what resonates for me is the kind of rhetoric used, which reminds me of my Uni days at the LSE. My classmates would talk about how the Eastern seaboard is owned by the Jews (didn't even bother with the code word "zionist") and no one, including the professor, felt a need to correct such a blatant, anti-semitic lie. Here too, in these talkbacks, people take long-standing anti-semitic beliefs as matter of fact.
I only hope that the Americans and the more educated and fair minded among our Europeans friends will continue to look beyond the lies and common prejudice and see Israel in a more balanced light.
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