In Israel, the educated Jewish activists who criticize Israeli abuses against Palestinians, the peaceniks who believe that negotiation is better than violence and that even Arabs have rights, are called, with a knowing sneer, “beautiful souls.” The common man, rooted in the real world, supposedly knows better: uncompromising toughness, the hard line, is the only way to get results.
这一精英式的绥靖者观点并不限于荷兰。在以色列，批评以色列对巴勒斯坦人的镇压的受过良好教育的犹太活动份子，相信谈判要比暴力好、甚至阿拉伯人也有权利的反战份子被人讥笑地称为“美丽心灵”。扎根于现实世界的普通人理应更为清楚，那就是，毫不妥协的强硬路线是取得结果的唯一途径。