Even Gauguin Couldn't Stand Europe, So Why Do Israelis Care About It? Yossi Klein Halevi, guest-blogging for the LA Times, makes some great points today. He wonders why world opinion is so stacked against Israel, when they clearly have not targeted Arab civilians in their war on terror, they had agreed to a Clinton-brokered plan which the PLO walked away from, and there has been proof of complete, direct links between terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and Arafat himself. It's a great question. Is it European appeasement? More aggressive free-form pundits than me might suggest that Europeans have given up the Jews before ... and it seems strange that an alarming number of anti-Semitic acts are occurring now. Arabs ( or college students ) wouldn't be so bold unless public opinion was on their side. Article Here