Another Anti-Semite Is Born

On CNN today I saw a woman in Tyre, Lebanon, whose apartment had fallen in on her thanks to Israeli bombers, shout, "Death to Israel. God punish Israel."

No doubt an anti-Semite, like the young men chanting the same thing as they stood amid the rubble that was once their town.

I am reminded of Karl Kraus's aphorism: "The psychiatrist unfailingly recognizes the madman by his excited behavior on being incarcerated."

Likewise, the Israel supporter unfailingly recogizes the anti-Semite by his excited behavior on having his home destroyed by the IDF.

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Some things worth reading:
"Morality Is Not on Our Side," Ze'ev Moaz, Haaretz, July 2
"Five Myths That Sanction Israel's War Crimes," Jonathan Cook, Antiwar.com, July 26

Cross-posted at Liberty & Power.