Narratives of Israel

Interesting article by Charles Moore in today’s Telegraph describes how the earlier inspiring narrative of Israel, much beloved in the West, that cast her as a brave young nation, forged from a desert and surrounded by belligerent foes, has given way to the quite different, all-too-familiar narrative of today:

"Israel, which was attacked, has come to be seen as the aggressor. Israel, which has elections that throw governments out and independent commissions that investigate people like Sharon and condemn him, became regarded as the oppressive monster. In a rhetoric that tried to play back upon Jews their own experience of suffering, supporters of the Palestinian cause began to call Israelis Nazis. Holocaust Memorial Day is disapproved of by many Muslims because it ignores the supposedly comparable 'genocide' of the Palestinians."