Richard Cohen's WaPo column yesterday called Israel "a mistake"and was roundly denounced by AT's James Lewis and many others. Cohen stated that Israel was created as a haven for European Jews under attack from anti—Semitism, ...the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. But he totally ignored the larger issue of Israel being created as a haven for Jews under attack in any part of the world. It is as if the dark skinned Sephardic Jews of Israel are totally invisible to him. This is arguably a form of skin color racism. Cohen is evidently totally ignorant of the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries after Israel's founding and after the 1956 Sinai War. Many of these Sephardic Jews were like my former barber in New York, who was forced to leave Morocco with $250 American dollars and one suitcase in the 1950s, having the rest of his ...(Read Full Post)