It’s anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism: Omri Casspi’s mural was vandalized with a swastika again. Not for the second time, as USA Today is reporting. This is number three. But it’s just a statement against Israel, not against Jews. Why would we associate swastikas with Jew-hatred?
Jewish leaders commit exercise in futility: Venezuela’s Jewish leaders met with Hugo Chavez to try to get him to stop attacking Jews in his official media and speeches. And get this: Chavez is stepping up security over possible attacks on Jews over the High Holidays. So, if you have the police attack a Jewish organization one year, and protect them the next from thugs that you energized to go after them, that makes things right? No wonder Venezuelan Jews are leaving the country in droves. And if there are no Jews left in Venezuela, who would he scapegoat?
Obama’s Arab World outreach: It’s working, if by “working” you mean “not working”. So throwing Israel under the bus the first year of his administration has achieved—nothing. The Palestinians resisted direct talks until last week, and are ready to pull out of them at a moment’s notice. And now the Arab League is telling Obama to go eff off regarding demanding Israel join the NPT and have the IAEA inspect its nuclear plant. Meantime, Iran and Syria, both signatories of the NPT, are going, “Look! Israel!” when confronted with their nuclear ambitions. Um—last time I checked, if you hadn’t signed a treaty, you weren’t obligated to follow it. But when has the world ever let facts get in the way of its Israel-bashing?
Funny. The Arabs (Egypt, the Saudis) are not serious. They depend on the Israeli nuclear umbrella in their dispute with Iran.
The Saudis have gone so far as to give Israelis flyover rights if they will strike Iran. Later denied of course.