Israel can no longer rely on the support of Europe's Jews
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1801566,00.html
The feeling is growing that Jewish honour and heritage have been more
convincingly preserved in the diaspora
Max Hastings
Tuesday June 20, 2006
The Guardian
Whatever the outcome of the current Palestinian chaos, meaningful
negotiations with Israel seem unlikely. The most plausible scenario is
that Ehud Olmert will proceed unilaterally to draw new boundaries for
his country, which will absorb significant Palestinian land, and
institutionalise such dominance of the West Bank as to make a
Palestinian state unworkable.
If this is the future, it is likely to yield fruits as bitter for
Israelis as for Palestinians. The world, far from becoming more willing
to acquiesce in Israel's expansion, is becoming less so. The generation
of European non-Jews for whom the Holocaust is a seminal memory is
dying. With them perishes much vicarious guilt.
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