Perhaps it was Heraclitus around 500 B.C. who first expressed the idea, but it was Oscar Wilde who has a character in his play An Ideal Husband say, "To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."  Those with such an intellect, or even more those with a more outmoded one, will therefore not be surprised that the foreign minister of Bahrain, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, should, on May 10, 2018, have expressed the view that "Israel has the right to defend itself." Western countries, the E.U., and Russia have long held the view that Israel has the right to defend itself.  What is new is that the Arab dignitary recognized that 75 years after the Holocaust, a non-Arab country, Iran, is seeking the destruction of a country with six million Jews.  Even more strongly, Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBDS) refers to the Iran supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the "new...(Read Full Article)