Arab Anti-Semitism didn't pay

During the last election there was a general consensus in the Arab world that Bush would be much better. (This piece is interesting and says the same thing about Muslims.) The reason for this is of course simple. Leiberman is Jewish. Having a Jew in the White House could not be good for the Arabs, or the world as a whole.

The current general concensus in the Arab world is that the most dangerous group of people in the world today are the neocons. The famous neocons, all the rage in today's political discourse seem to have the ear of much of Americal foreign policy makers, and are always associated in the media with Jews. Not all neocons are Jews. But some of the the big famous ones (Leo Strauss, Alan Bloom, Paul Wolfowitz, Irving Cristol. . . ) are.

Finally, it is hard to imagine Al Gore invading Iraq.

All these together do not add up of course. Had Gore been president the Arab world would have had to suffer the indignity of hating America because it was run by Jews, even though the Jew would have been much better for them then Bush - the Christian. Since Bush won, the Arab world has to suffer the indignity of hating America because it is influenced by Jews and some imaginary Jewish agenda.

I think the big lesson here is this. If Arabs (and of course I refer to the general Arab consensus, not any individual or group of individuals) couldgive up their anti-semitism they might have a coherent political platform. By letting themselves be shaped by which Jews are in charge of what in the US, they limit all their options to the one that has the least Jews involved. In this case they lost. They got Bush. It was an apparent victory, and now they can all bicker if it was worth it just so they do not have to have a Jew in the White House.