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Genocidal Linkage
[FrontPageMagazine] Kenneth Levin - In virtually every Arab nation, demonizing and delegitimizing of Israel, and often of Jews, is a staple of government-controlled media, schools and mosques. This is true even of the Arab states with which Israel is formally at peace. At the same time, the Arab world is the chief support of fellow Arab leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his Sudanese regime's genocidal assault on the Muslim blacks of Darfur. Tunisian human rights activist Mohammed Bechri argues that to understand Arab support for the genocide in Darfur, one has to recognize the "twin fascisms" - Bechri's term - that dominate the Arab world: Islamism and pan-Arabism. The first rejects the legitimacy of any non-Muslim group within what the Arabs perceive as their proper domain; the latter takes the same view towards any non-Arab group. The genocidal rhetoric, and efforts at mass murder, directed at Israel, and the genocidal assault on the Muslim but non-Arab people of Darfur follow from this mindset. The major force driving genocidal agendas toward Israel and Darfur is Arab supremacism. It is abetted by a twisted ideological allegiance whose credo requires that hostility to the Jewish state and consequent sympathy for, or prettifying of, those dedicated to Israel's destruction trumps sympathy for Darfur and criticism of those participating in its people's annihilation.