The war in the Middle East has dramatically exposed many problems that exist not only in the region but also in most developed societies. Latent anti-Semitism has become quite open, and sympathy for terrorists is sometimes overflowing.
The war in the Middle East has dramatically exposed many problems that exist not only in the region but also in most developed societies. Latent anti-Semitism has become quite open, and sympathy for terrorists is sometimes overflowing. Of course, this may be due to long-hidden phobias, but the reason lies, in my opinion, in the radical change in Western societies that has taken place in recent decades under the influence of left-wing ideas: the replacement of honouring the successful with sympathy for the unsuccessful. This transformation was the result of two parallel processes: the formation of a welfare society in the West with its gigantic redistributive mechanism in the 1960s and 1970s, and the opening of borders to migrants in the 1970s and 1980s. The creation of the welfare state came at a time of rapid economic growth and at a time of almost complete isolation of the US and Europe from the outside world. In the year of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, the share of...