Sherlock Holmes, that most observant of detectives, once solved a crime by noticing what did not happen that normally should have; in his case a dog didn't bark.  And now, several weeks after Iran announced that a Moroccan won its demented Holocaust cartoon contest, someone else finally noticed. No Jews have been rioting or torching Moroccan embassies in the wake of Derkaoui's cartoon depicting an image of Auschwitz on a barrier being constructed by an Israeli crane through Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock in the background. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad banked on the contest — branded an exercise in free speech but simply a grotesque headline—grabber — eliciting a frenetic response from the West that would make the Muhammad cartoon riots pale in comparison. He, of course, was dead wrong, as shown by the quieter than expected response. Yes, Jews didn't riot or protest; very few civil or human wrongs organizations even commented on the bizarre...(Read Full Post)