By Chad Groening
February 24, 2004

(AgapePress) - An advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says the so-called "democracies" of Europe didn't have the backbone to stand up to tyrants of the past -- and still don't have any backbone today. The scholar believes the U.S. and Israel must, for the most part, stand alone.

Dr. Dan Shueftan expounded on the need for an Israeli security fence as early as 1999 in his book Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Entity. Now, as the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands considers arguments whether that security fence is legal, Shueftan says it is apparent that Europe, for the most part, remains a continent of "appeasers."

"They don't have a backbone -- they have a policy of appeasement," Shueftan says. "They were willing to surrender to Hitler, and then they were willing to surrender to the likes of Saddam Hussein and [Yasser] Arafat by allowing there people to shape the international arena.

"The only thing that stands in their way -- in a big way -- on the global level is the United States; and the only thing that stands in their way in the Middle East is Israel."

The Israeli scholar says with the exception of Great Britain, the other "democracies" of Europe continue to be appeasers. "I think there is something very deep that Americans and Israelis have in common: they're the only democracies with a backbone," he says. "You have other democracies in this world, particularly the Europeans, but they don't have a backbone."

So Shueftan says the U.S. and Israel must continue to go at it alone in standing up to terrorists. Israel is doing its part by not recognizing the authority of the International Criminal Court to meddle in its self-defense matters.

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