Tu Quoque *, The Economist

Emmanuel Navon
For the Sake of Zion
13 June '10

“Can the whole world be wrong?” asked Koffi Annan in April 2002. His was a rhetorical question meant to make a sophistic point: If the UN says black and Israel says white, do the math and guess who’s right. Coming from a man under whose watch (whether as Head of the Peacekeeping Operations Department, as Under-Secretary General, or as Secretary General) the UN was passive at best and accomplice at worst during the Rwanda Genocide, the Srebrenica massacre, the Darfur ethnic cleansing and the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal, asking such a question required no small amount of sang froid.

What Annan meant by “the whole world” was the UN, an organization numerically dominated by human rights violators. Similarly, what The Economist means by “the world” (“How Israel plays into Hamas’s hands,” June 5th 2010) are those European dhimmis who refuse to face what Islam is up to. So, yes, “the world” of Koffi Annan and of The Economist can indeed be wrong.

If you were still wondering why Europe is expressing outrage at Israel’s act of self-defense while excusing Turkey’s provocations, then read the op-ed published in The New York Times on June 10th by Bernard Kouchner, Franco Frattini, and Miguel Moratinos. Those three European foreign ministers provide a crystal-clear explanation for their hypocrisy: they need to appease Europe’s Muslim citizens (here’s the quote: “[the flotilla incident] must not create the conditions for a further escalation of violence either in the Middle East or in Europe, where deep emotion has been aroused”).

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* tu quo·que (too kwo kwe) n. A retort accusing an accuser of a similar offense or similar behavior.

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