Palestinians looking to Israel for rescue

Michael Ledeen:

We really have a poor picture of daily life in the Middle East, it's not just Iraq. I was reading the excellent reportage from Ramallah by Lisa Goldman, a freelance Canadian/Israeli, and there were two bits that really helped me understand things a bit better, or so I think. The first is in the middle of a description of escapees from Gaza, who told horror stories about Hamas's violent assault on pro-Fatah Palestinians. She warns us to discount the melodramatic descriptions, and then quietly serves this up:

The unspoken message, though, is interesting: suddenly Fatah represents the reasonable, civilized Palestinians. They speak Hebrew, they look like us and they sound like us, and Islamist militants threaten them just as they threaten Israel.

So at least some of the Arabs get the point: first they come for the Jews, then for the rest of us. Which reinforces my conviction that generalizations about "Arab streets" and a monolithic Islam prevent us from seeing the highly dynamic, even explosive nature of the region and the political/religious/intellectual ferment there.

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Is this a dawning realization that the real enemy is the Islamist religious bigots? Possibly. But rescuing a snake is always a dangerous proposition. Fatah is still a bunch of snakes who just happen to be in trouble from a different source at this time. I think they should show some good faith by having a victim offensive against Hamas like they used to use against Israel.

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