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US pounces on an old European prejudice (Brownen Maddox, May 02, 2002, Times of London)

EUROPE'S greatest problem at today's summit with the US in Washington is that the Continent is suddenly accused across much of America of being anti-Semitic, still at heart inspired by the racist demons of the Holocaust, and deserving of hostility and contempt rather than respect.

The next problem is that European leaders seem not to to have picked up on the new mood. They--in the form of the Commission President Romano Prodi and the Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar--are pitching up with a long and detailed agenda, headed by trade wars. With some good reason: that problem is urgent; Europe speaks with one voice (more or less, despite subversive explorations by Britain), and they have hopes of progress.

But they may find themselves walking unsuspecting into the path of a tsunami of explicitly anti-European rhetoric. The past fortnight's comment in the media and politics has been so poisonous, so homogenous, and so voluminous, that it amounts to a sharp change of national mood, and is a real diplomatic problem of its own.

So, the protectionist, socialist, bureaucratic, post-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, declinist Europeans are coming over to tell us that we need to get our house in order. It is too laugh... Posted by Orrin Judd at May 2, 2002 1:03 PM