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Western guilt vs. Islamic extremism

8.27.06
Shelby Steele penned a brilliant op-ed piece, "Life and Death ," that ran in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week (August 22, 2006), in which the author offers one of the most astute analyses of the battle we are now facing.

Steele's analysis is not only limited to Israel's struggles against its enemies, which he so acutely characterizes:

"...every Israeli land-for-peace gesture has been met with a return volley of suicide bombers and rockets. Palestinians have balked every time their longed-for nationhood has come within grasp. They have seemed to prefer the aggrieved dignity of their resentments to the challenges of nationhood. And Hezbollah launched the current war from territory Israel had relinquished six years earlier.

"If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her. "

He goes on to draw parallels to the greater, worldwide struggle against Islamofascism:

"Over and over, white guilt turns the disparity in development between Israel and her neighbors into a case of Western bigotry. This despite the fact that Islamic extremism is the most explicit and dangerous expression of human bigotry since the Nazi era. Israel's historical contradiction, her torture, is to be a Western nation whose efforts to survive trap her in the moral mazes of white guilt. Its national defense will forever be white aggression."

But a few quotes cannot do justice to Steele's trenchant analysis.

Read the entire piece
here.





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