A Fading Understanding

In his article A Fading Peace, author Brian Freedman writes a quality piece about his experience with anti-Arab sentiments amongst Israeli youth. Freedman does provide an intelligent well-thought out assessment of the current conflict. He, unfortunately, like many Anglo Jews today having a faded picture of Israeli society that is fading as fast as a Tel Aviv sunset.
Freedman states:

The kids wear this bigotry with pride, as if it were a source of patriotism…

Is that not a blanket statement? That would be far more appropriate for the Arabs than for Israeli Jews. The Arabs have no vocal leftist opposition, with the exception of informants and leftist Jews like those on the Wall of Shame on this blog. Do you think the Meretznikim in Tel Aviv have this kind of attitude? They are busy hating Haredim (black-hat Orthodox) to hate the Arabs.
Describing a group of anti-Arab Jewish kids he encountered Freedman writes:

I vindicate them mostly because they are young and they undoubtedly learn this mentality at the dinner table.

Again, Arabs don’t have anti-Israel hate pow-wows? Leftist Jews? No, only the average Israeli fed up with the Arabs and the world’s tolerance of their behavior gets pegged for the media’s special attention. He writes further:

Avigdor Lieberman’s successful campaign slogan, “No Loyalty, No Citizenship,” is aimed at initiating a McCarthy-like litmus test to suppress the nagging, caustic voice of a frustrated Israeli Arab population.

A teacher of mine who is now at the Technion told me that there were Israeli Arabs who deliberately gave Hezbollah directions regarding which areas of Israel to hit in the latest Israeli-Lebanese War. Brian, you don’t point that out. You also don’t point out that there were families of Arab suicide bombers getting stipends from the Israeli government after having perpetrated their murderous missions! How’s that for nuts? Would any Western country be so naive? Your comments, and those of so many Jews in the Diaspora represent a fundamental lack of understand of the culture, problems, and challenges-in their totality-that Israel and its Arabs neighbors face. Hopefully more Jews will come to Israel and educate themselves to counteract this “fading understanding.”