[white trash redneck]

Maybe there is a little hope for the EUrodhimmis, unless it's too late.

[Mr. Jeeves]

He singled out France as the country where attitudes had changed most dramatically. Three years ago, 60 percent of French respondents said they took a side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of that 60%, four out of five backed the Palestinians. Today, by contrast, 60% of French respondents did not take a side in the conflict, and support for the Palestinians had dropped by half among those who did express a preference.

Yeah, a little first-hand experience with the problem will do that. ;)

[Mr. Mojo]

The Europeans were now asking themselves "who is the moderate in this conflict, and who is the extremist?" And suddenly it is the Palestinians who may be the extremists...

lol...the Euros are a bit slow on the uptake.

[Walkingfeather]

IF the muslims begin to destroy European culture they will come crying for us to do something. France being the first to squeel to the world for help.

[editor-surveyor]

You can fool all of the people some of the time....

But when you can't even fool a frog, it's time to give up.

[hsalaw]

Today, by contrast, the Europeans "are focused on fundamentalist Islam and its impact on them," he said.

About time they pulled their heads out of. . . sorry.

[Earthdweller]

Thank God in Heaven..or maybe that isn't PC enough..so I'm just grateful for some sanity.

[burzum]

There has not necessarily been "a rush to Israel" but there has been a "crash" in backing for the Palestinians, he noted.

Of course. Backing Israel would mean that they would have to throw off their antisemitism and *admit* the US was right about Israel. Both would be very unpalatable for European elites.

[HockeyPop]

"...93% said Palestinian leaders must end the culture of hate that encourages children to become suicide bombers..."

I want to know who the 7% are...my take is that half are just too stupid to comprehend the question while the other half simply needs to disappear.

[JAWs]

According to my arithmetic the Pals' support has gone from 48% to 16%. Nothing like exposure to their culture to make you their supporters.

[Dems_R_Losers]

I'm reminded of the quote by the late, great Abba Eban:

"The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

[JasonC]

"US should not fund the Palestinian Authority until its Hamas-led government renounced violence"

No, that should be "US should not fund the Palestinian Authority", full stop.

Do we fund Trinidad and Tobago? Do we fund Luxembourg? Besides their being bloodthirsty murderers, what conceivable reason is there to fund Palestinians, above anyone else on earth?

[MrCruncher]

IT IS TOO LATE.

[Atchafalaya]

Dhimmiphobia.

[Joe Boucher]

The euro weeniees will ultimately cough up public money to keep bankrolling the palis. They deserve each other.

[Sabramerican]

I'll believe in a change when their vote vis a vis Israel changes at the UN and other International bodies or Hell freezes over. Which ever comes first.

The hatred of Jes/Israel is so deep that they may actually rationalize that although the "Palestinians" are not the victims they imagined, the Israelis remain the culprit nonetheless.

[Billthedrill]

Three years ago, he said, the conflict was perceived "in a post-colonial framework."
There was a sense "that Europe could cancel out its own colonial history by taking the 'right' side" - the Palestinian side.

Only an intellectual is capable of the grotesque mental contortions one has to make in order to see this through an anti-colonial lens. One has to stretch the description of Israel into a "colony," posit the United States as a colonizer despite the fact that the bulk of Israeli citizens came from Europe, and ignore one's own country's culpability in the war that produced Israel, WWII. That's for starters. One then has to squint hard enough to see the people whose markets and buses are being attacked by suicide bombers as the aggressors in the matter.

Yasser Arafat was absolutely fluent in the sort of ideological cant that played to this audience, as were/are many of the African "anti-colonialists" such as Amin, Bokassa, Mobotu Sese Seko, Mugabe, etc, etc... This is all well and fine when attempting to justify atrocities that are a thousand miles or more away. When it's on your own doorstep things begin to look a little different.

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[Bahbah]

I wonder what this will do to the Rachel Corrie lovers. Seriously, this is a pretty significant turnaround.

[Stultis]

So, this seems to be saying that if you hit a European violently on the head with a 2x4, again and again, they might start to get the point after a few decades? This would make the average European dumber than the average American Mule, but still smarter than I thought.