A myth pervades Western societies that is unbelievably dangerous and stupid.
The myth is that all cultures are like ours and all other people outside ours are really just like us. They think the same way. They want the same things. All that is required is a little bit of kindness and education for everyone to blossom into a good Westerner.
That is a lie.
It is a truly dangerous lie because granting that credibility to people who actively want something different, who foment evil, and who teach their children evil — when you say, “they don’t really want evil, they’re not really evil, and they don’t believe evil things; really, it’s just about us not being nice enough” — results in surrendering to the evil.
That is the story of the Palestinian nationalist cause for the last 80 years. The Palestinian nationalist cause is based on an evil supposition, which is the…
