Why Does Israel Get So Much Love from Samoa of All Places?
How a small Pacific island nation understood the Middle East better than Europe
How a small Pacific island nation understood the Middle East better than Europe
While the West is busy explaining why Israel is a “problem,” the small countries have already understood: Israel is not the problem, it is the reminder.
If there’s one thing Europe knows how to do well – besides lapping up alcohol – it’s imparting morality.
Centuries of conquests, world wars, colossal genocides – and today? They are humanists. Enlightened. Morally responsible.
The culture of negating the other is a symptom of a deeper crisis: a loss of faith in dialogue and in our ability to deal with different opinions. It reflects a left that has lost its way, that has forgotten the values of freedom and openness that it once championed.
From a right-wing perspective, the solution is not a counter-boycott or silencing of the left, but a return to open discourse, in which opinions are examined on the basis of arguments, not mass outrage.