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There is an ill­ness in soci­ety that is so sub­tle and inva­sive that few have dis­cov­ered it. Yet, it bleeds into every­thing we hear and think. A con­stant noise that deaf­ens even the san­est of ges­tures. It streams through our online news, it speaks through our TV, it hums through our car radios and even purrs through our iPods with­out even leav­ing the slight­est sign of infec­tion. What is this dis­ease? Moral inversion.

Who’s doing it? Ene­mies of Israel for one. Just last week, Lebanon said it would hold Israel fully respon­si­ble for any attack on their flotilla. Most of us that can read between the lies know that Lebanon is engag­ing in a treach­er­ous game that will likely end in a vio­lent con­fronta­tion. In fact, Lebanon has no diplo­matic ties or sea routes to Israel. There are rea­sons for this. You know, minor ones like ter­ror­ists Hezbol­lah, Iran (and its head anti­semite, Ahmadine­jad, who advo­cates and spon­sors push­ing Israel into the sea) and that lit­tle skir­mish known as the Six Day War.

But more hic­cups fol­lowed. The next day Egypt pulled a fast one and tried to blame Israel for Gaza. Those that fol­low Mid­dle East pol­i­tics know how ridicu­lous this is as Egypt has had a sep­a­ra­tion bar­rier with Gaza long before Israel and Egypt is still adding on to theirs. Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Mubarak pur­posely omit­ted the fact that both Egypt and Israel have shared inter­ests of pre­vent­ing Hamas from smug­gling weapons in an effort to cre­ate a new Iranian-sponsored hub of oper­a­tions. Instead, Mubarak sound bites were on open­ing the Cairo bor­der in early June that allowed hun­dreds of thou­sands of Gazans to roam in and out the region. It’s hard to say what coun­tries out­side the Mid­dle East believe this (after all, they might get impris­oned or worse if they don’t), but I know that cit­i­zens of demo­c­ra­tic coun­tries that under­stand Mid­dle East pol­i­tics are not drink­ing this Kool-Aid.

Then last week ended with the fam­ily of Gilad Shalit stag­ing a heart­break­ing protest in front of Israeli PM Netanyahu’s home. Like most con­cerned with Gilad’s speedy return, I have blogged and tweeted about him often. But the media did an about face by turn­ing the Shalit’s fam­ily saga into a noose with Netanyahu’s name on. It doesn’t take a Mensa mem­ber to fig­ure out that the kid­nap­per is Hamas NOT Netanyahu.

Using this irra­tional logic, why not let Hamas off and instead blame the anti­se­mitic UN or the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity? The UN has failed mis­er­ably at school­ing Gazans. In fact, they employ Hamas at UN run schools teach­ing kids hatred of Jews and Israel. And the PR cam­paign over “starv­ing” Gazans has got­ten so out of hand that the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity con­tin­u­ally pres­sures Netanyahu to aid Gaza (which only tight­ens the head­lock that Hamas has on Gaza). I haven’t heard many rail about the week long PA– spon­sored black­out in Gaza. Or how many have protested over masked gun­men set­ting UN Gaza sum­mer camp on fire? (Note the irony in the state­ment released by Hamas).

But this unfair shift in respon­si­bil­ity is play­ing into the hands of ter­ror­ists. Hamas claims now their ter­ror orga­ni­za­tion will kid­nap more Israeli offi­cers if Netanyahu doesn’t free 1000 Hamas pris­on­ers. Well, guess what. Odds are good that Hamas will kill a LOT MORE Israelis if 1000 of their pris­on­ers (many with Israeli blood on their hands) walk. Amid the media cir­cus, I only ran across one Op-Ed that got the story right. As much as the Shalit fam­ily is hurt­ing, con­sider the anguish they will be in if the return of their son means the sense­less mur­der of hun­dreds of Israelis. There is no happy end­ing in this sce­nario unless ter­ror­ist Hamas does a civ­i­lized u-turn and releases a 24 year old sol­dier that has no busi­ness being a four-year old bar­gain­ing chip. 

Then state­side you have wackos like Louis Far­rakhan who con­tinue to scape­goat Jews. It’s inter­est­ing that amid his nasty tirades that even he can’t see the par­al­lels between Jew­ish and African slav­ery. There’s a chance he’s col­or­blind too. I haven’t seen a US VP not to men­tion a POTUS that has a 50 per­cent Jew­ish back­ground. Yet, we stand faced with a half-black POTUS with a socialist/ Mus­lim upbring­ing that is befriend­ing every enemy of the state while doing in Amer­ica. No other POTUS has stirred up WW pol­i­tics in such a way that Israel has more openly vocal haters than ever before. Some even spec­u­late that if we con­tinue down this path we could be fac­ing the end of times. Who is out­raged about this? Those who missed Jon Voight’s let­ter to Obama, should take a note of this coura­geous actor/activist who is putting his career on the line to stand up for Israel and America. 

Now, we can all fume as Obama meets with Saudi King Abdul­lah. It’s always com­fort­ing to know that the king­dom that ranks high on human rights abuses, gives psy­chics the death penalty for “sor­cery” (which I blogged about  here), and gifted Amer­ica with 15 of the 19 9/11 hijack­ers, thinks it has the answer to Mid­dle East peace. Long sigh. This along with our cur­rent WH admin­is­tra­tion leaves lit­tle to look for­ward to except an entirely new admin­is­tra­tion focused on not just America’s secu­rity but Israel’s too. Until then, expect more idiocy, more inver­sion and much more fin­ger point­ing as the media cov­ers Arab-led crises yet for­gets who the pro­tag­o­nist is.

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US - Israel Flag: London Daily Times

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