As an aside to our current discussion, the below is a provocative piece from the Australian, Australia's only broadsheet newspaper, whatever the hell that means. Given that Australia is not only a staunch friend of the United States, but also a member of the Coalition of the Willing, and an ally in the Global War on Terrorism, I enjoy to keeping up on their world perspective as we march lockstep towards a better day when Freedom and Democracy are realised for all of the world's peoples and the scourge of radical islamic terrorism is neutered.
In her book The New Anti-Semitism (2005), American feminist academic Phyllis Chesler writes: "The American and European Left have made a marriage in hell with their Islamic counterparts. The same Left that has still never expressed any guilt over its devotion to communist dictators who murdered millions of their own people in the service of a Great Idea has now finally, fatefully, joined the world jihadic chorus in calling for the end to racist Zionism and to the Jewish apartheid state."
Within a few years of its foundation, Israel had broken the first commandment of the Left's ideology: "Thou shalt not succeed." Success is anathema to the Left because it puts an end to victimhood; without victims the Left has no reason to exist.
I wonder if Quiggan agrees.
