(Daily Telegraph - UK) David Frum - The certainty that American policy is controlled by what one British magazine called a "kosher conspiracy" was the single most widely held opinion I heard in the course of an eight-day visit to Britain, though true anti-Americanism is faint and marginal, often motivated by envy rather than hatred. When Americans look at the Palestinians, what do they see? Not the victims that Europeans perceive - but the people who danced with glee as New York and Washington burned. Americans see the inventors of the airplane hijacking and the exponents of suicide-murder. In short, they see people who inspired and sympathize with America's newest and deadliest enemies.
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