LJUBLJANA, Slovenia ¨C These are crazy times. Biblical disturbances in nature, such as the repeated torrential rain in Dubai or the mass fish die-off in Vietnam¡¯s overheated reservoir, seem to mirror our overheated politics and social environment.
At such moments, it is crucial to keep a cool head and analyze all the weird phenomena as closely, objectively and dispassionately as possible. And few phenomena nowadays are weirder than the protests surrounding Israel¡¯s bombardment and invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas¡¯s terrorist attack last October.
We should acknowledge the rhetoric from some politicized Muslims, such as those who recently demonstrated in Hamburg, Germany, chanting ¡°Kalifat ist die Losung¡± (¡°Caliphate is the solution¡±). And we should concede that, despite the massive presence of Jews among the protesters, there are at least a few true anti-Semites among them (just as there are some genocidal maniacs in Israel).
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