Vad har Israel med kriget i Irak att göra?

Melanie Phillips skriver lysande om ISG:s rapport om Irak:

The ISG and their ilk want to surrender to Iran and Syria and offer up Israel as a propitiatory sacrifice. To justify this act of atavistic ethnic malice, they put forward the fantasy that the Israel/Arab conflict is the core grievance driving the regional war and the Islamic jihad. This is clearly absurd. What on earth has Israel got to do with the war between Sunni and Shia in Iraq, or al Qaeda’s attacks in Malaysia or elsewhere in Asia in the furtherance of a pan-Asian caliphate, or the Islamist genocide in the Sudan? Casting Israel as the regional villain bears no relation whatever to ‘realism’, nor to anything approaching reality. It has everything to do instead with a deep-seated animus against the Jewish state, and unhealthily close connections with the Arab world that is driven by the desire to see Israel destroyed ”” and which is being talked up as a result by these authors as the solution to a murderous problem that the Arab world itself has created. Only Israel is required to make any actual concession ”” giving up the Golan to Syria ”” and yet only Israel is to be excluded from a ’support’ network for Iraq that seems to encompass most of the rest of the world. In the ISG universe, this is clearly a world that is Jew-free; or at least, where the Jews play one role only ”” that of global fall-guy.

Och ISG, för den som inte vet det, betyder alltså Iraq Surrender Group. Eller något sådant.