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dove Yossi Beilin, criticize the govern-
ment for not fighting hard enough
before and at the Durban conference.
These critics say Israel should have
sent a top-level delegation — includ-
ing public relations whizzes such as
Netanyahu, who fought unsuccessfully
to be included in Israel's delegation —
to counter Arab and Muslim polemi-
cists who postured at Durban before
thousands of journalists from around
the world.
Some Israeli commentators sought to
downplay the long-term repercussions
of Durban, placing it in the context of
the worldwide anti-globalization move-
ment that in recent years has exploded
into violence in Seattle, Prague, Genoa,
Italy, and other venues.
But there are other Israelis who find
themselves unable to explain away
what happened at Durban. The Israeli
media are full of dire allusions to the
pre-Holocaust period in Europe, and
to other, more distant waves of histori-
cal anti-Semitism.
"We have all of us been marked as
targets for extermination," columnist
Amnon Dankner wrote in the Israeli
daily Ma'ariv. "Countries, compared
to whose crimes our own are as the
driven snow, have singled us out for
death.
"Throughout history, it has been
that way," Dankner wrote. "Before a
pogrom, they hold a conference, and
take decisions effectively excluding the
Jews from the legitimate comity of
nations."
Writing in the Jerusalem Post, corn-
mentator Yossi Olmert wrote: "Not all
the participants in Durban are Nazis,
maybe not even a majority, of them,
but too many are, and they clearly give
this shameful gathering its true charac-

ter, that of an unmitigated wild hatred
toward everything Jewish.
"We are strong enough to stand up
to our enemies, but in order to do so,
we need to realize the scope and true
objectives of their hatred," Olmert
wrote. "Here is the only advantage of
Durban. It enables us, albeit grudging-
ly, to better understand the realities of
our existence."

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