"So long as Arabs refuse to take responsibility for their barbaric actions, they will continue to be viewed as a small and silly people by Westerners."

True. But so long as Israelis refuse to take responsibility for their own barbaric actions, they thenselves will continue to be viewed as a small and silly people by Westerners and Easterners alike.

There is enough barbarism to go around. There always is. But we always expect better of the Jews, God knows why.