We Americans have ignored this problem, treating it as a local dispute distant from our shores. We no longer can afford to. Day by day, the evictions by Israeli bulldozers and tanks have been featured on television in the Islamic world, with its billion people. It has taught an entire generation of Muslim youth that the values of the West — respect for individuals and democracy — are frauds. The lesson being taught by the policy in the Islamic world is that the West doesn't consider Muslims deserving of those rights.