The Paris Conference Delivered Another Blow to Peace
The latest exercise in diplomatic futility.
January 17, 2017
At the core of new and old anti-Semitism is the humiliated Jew, stripped of legitimacy and under attack.
Today’s anti-Semitism, writes Shmuel Trigano, even if it is not so different from the anti-Semitism of previous eras, finds its main expression in objection to the Jewish state’s existence. But while the Muslim variant is explicable in that it is rooted in religious rejection of Jewish sovereignty in the midst of the Middle East, the Western variety is harder to understand:
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But Israel has reason for cautious optimism.
At the core of new and old anti-Semitism is the humiliated Jew, stripped of legitimacy and under attack.
Village atheists and H.L. Mencken.
Godself.