Brian of London here. Over at New English Review’s Iconoclast blog, Hugh Fitzgerald picked up my post about Netanyahu’s speech to the UN and ran with it in a direction I wholy agree with. Here’s an extract, but please read the whole thing:
Brian of London has pointed out the most important part of Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N.
It was not all the talk about “peace”
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No, it was, I repeat, that mention of “militant Islam.”
That’s the most important part of his speech. the theme that has now been introduced, been adumbrated in the shadow-war of words that, little by little, will become, not because the Israelis will do it, but because many others will do it, and keep doing it, the major theme of the age, and many will come to understand, if they do not already, that the war against Israel is a classic Jihad, and all this business about the “Palestinian” people merely a useful invention for the propaganda and diplomatic campaign the Arab Muslims have been conducting, with great success, since late 1967. But as the observable behavior of Muslim states into which we have poured hundreds of billions, behavior that we will regard with fury as a blend of treachery and deep ingratitude — think of Pakistan — as the mistreatment of so many different kinds of non-Muslims in so many different lands where Muslims dominate becomes ever more obvious, ever more impossible to hide or explain away (in Nigeria, in the Sudan, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh, in Malaysia, in Indonesia, in Egypt, in Iraq, in this place and in that), and as the disruption, and expense, and daily unpleasantness, that the millions of Muslim migrants, with their aggressive behavior, have brought to the insufficiently vigilant people of Western Europe — all of this will change, is changing, the understanding of the war against Israel.
