Think of the average beleaguered Israeli as he contemplates his environment during any period in recent times.  On the north, south, and east, he is confronted by bloodthirsty enemies (Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran) who make no secret of their intense desire to kill him, his family, and his countrymen.  Other neighbors (Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq) harbor the same thoughts but are more circumspect about expressing them.  And, of course, there are the two neighbors (Egypt, Jordan) with whom he is "at peace" -- but it is a frigid peace, not supported by those country's citizens, whose attitude, he believes, could easily blossom into hostility and belligerence. When he casts his eye farther abroad, the beleaguered Israeli finds a European continent that -- a mere seventy years after the Holocaust -- has reverted to virulent anti-Semitism, now expressed openly as anti-Israel opinion and policy.  He takes some solace that his country has established...(Read Full Article)