How is Moral Equivalence being used in an effort to usurp Israels ethical advantage?
• Israel’s enemies appear to be poised to secure through skillful use of moral equivalence and other techniques of ideological warfare what they could not do with tanks, missiles and warplanes. The Arabs’ goal remains the acquisition of territory vital to Israel’s security and, in the process, the delegitimation of the underpinnings of Zionism — that is, the ‘historical connection of the Jews to Palestine….’ …The Israeli leadership and many in the American Jewish community have unintentionally played into this latest bid to establish moral equivalence between the principally Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the so-called “victims of Zionist aggression.” – Frank J. Gaffney, Center for Security Policy Director, U.S. Senate Caucus Room, 16 March 1994 • At the end of the [Pope’s] historically significant visit [to Israel], the bystander’s conclusion must be that the pontiff was admirably evenhanded. He urged an end to “anti-Jewish feeling among Christians and anti-Christian feeling
