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Israel Seen as a "Villa in the Jungle"
(Ynet News) Sever Plocker - During my last visit to Washington, I met with one of the most prominent media personalities in the U.S., who has not spared his criticism of Israel's governments. The reality in the Arab arena, he said to me, has slapped many people in the face. It has exposed trends of violence and cruelty at volumes which we have not witnessed for decades. You can't ignore half a million dead in Syria, he added, while focusing on the behavior of border guard officers at a roadblock in the West Bank. The international preoccupation with Israel's conduct in the West Bank is nothing but an attempt to evade responsibility for the mass murder taking place in Syria. Quietly, in closed conversations, many public opinion leaders in the U.S. are voicing agreement with the official Israeli approach that "there is no one to talk to," or are at least saying that they understand the despair regarding any Arab leadership as a partner for an agreement. Now we see, they told me, that those who described Israel as "a villa in the jungle" were right. But the jungle is more dangerous than we thought, and the villa is more exposed than we thought.