This past Friday was the 15th of May, the day that the Arab world celebrates as Nakba day. The day of the "catastrophe," which is what the Arabic word means; the founding of Israel. Whether one accepts the validity of the Arab or Israeli narrative for the events surrounding the creation of Israel depends on one's worldview; but ultimately such views will have no bearing on future events. The continuity of Israel is now a matter of realpolitik. "Realpolitik" is a German word which has entered the world lexicon; and which means that a nation's politics should be based on practical realities, not dogmas, creeds, or moral precepts. It originator and master practitioner was the 19th century Prussian chancellor Otto Von Bismarck who took Prussia from a second rate power in Europe to the center of a united Germany, the chief power in Europe. In all of Imperial Germany's policies, Bismarck rarely let modern concepts of right and wrong concern him. He just...(Read Full Article)