Israel and the left
Sir: Regarding Tibor Szamuely's article (9 June). I would like to point out to him that the right- wingers in the West are also the most ardent admirers and supporters of Ian Smith and the Rhodesian Front regime and the Verwoerd-Vorster apartheid governments of South Africa and of Salazar's colonial governments of Mozambique and Angola. That does not say much for their supposed passion for libertarian democracy.
Tibor Szamuely is too naive about the right- wingers,. perhaps he needs enlightening. The right- wingers are almost hysterically (writes the Daily Express) pro-Israeli not out of any love for libertarian democracy or any love for or toleration dr the Jews, but out of contempt for, hatred of and fear of what are to them all 'dirty wogs*— Israel seems to them to be more Western, and therefore more white, than the Arabs whom they regard as 'dirty wogs' who should be kept in their
place. Nasser, in particular, infuriates the right- wingers because he. thumbed his nose at them. They regard him as an uppity 'wog' who should be kept in his place. Instead of bowing and scraping to them and answering 'yes, effendi, no, effendi,' Nasser, in 1956, -kicked them in the seat of the pants, where they deserved to be kicked, and he restored some semblance of wide to the Arabs after centuries of humiliation at the hands of the Turks, the British and the French. Nasser and the Arabs became uppity; the one thing that sticks in the right-winger's craw is 'uppitiness from a 'wog.'
So it is really a strange time we live in, when we can read Tibor Szamuely suggesting the right- wingers of the West are the Jews' best friends. Do not delude yourself, Mr Szamuely. Those golf clubs which ban Jews from membership are probably crawling with right-wingers.
It is ironic that the Arabs and Nasser, like the
Western right-wingers, regard the ,Zionists as essentially Westerners—Europeans—whites who have forcibly colonised Arab territory and thus the Zionists have become a symbol of white supremacy to both the Arabs and the-Western right- wingers.
As for -Mr Szamuely's mention of the Jews losing
Jerusalem in AD 70; if everyone in the world asserted and affected the right to take back that which they had and lost in ao 70, the world would be in total chaos instead of its present partial chaos. I am .a Celt, and so 1 find Mr Szamuely's use of AD 70 as justification for present action extremely tempting. Beware all discendants of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Jutes, Nor- mans, etc. We Celts will reclaim all the lands we lost.
Christopher Y. K. Tallack 14 Avenue Road, Lonsingion, Hampshire
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