E Pluribus Unum

I haven't seen Spielberg's Munich (although my son has). And I generally don't agree with (or even respect) anything Charles Krauthammer writes anymore. But his op-ed in the Post got my attention:

Spielberg makes the Holocaust the engine of Zionism and its justification. Which, of course, is the Palestinian narrative. Indeed, it is the classic narrative for anti-Zionists, most recently the president of Iran, who says that Israel should be wiped off the map. And why not? If Israel is nothing more than Europe's guilt trip for the Holocaust, then why should Muslims have to suffer a Jewish state in their midst?

It takes a Hollywood ignoramus to give flesh to the argument of a radical anti-Semitic Iranian. Jewish history did not begin with Kristallnacht. The first Zionist Congress occurred in 1897. The Jews fought for and received recognition for the right to establish a "Jewish national home in Palestine" from Britain in 1917 and from the League of Nations in 1922, two decades before the Holocaust.

And those who liken the Palestinians' historial plight to that of Native Americans also have it wrong. In reality, it is the Israelis who are the Indians -- the Indians at Little Big Horn.