CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Never Again?

“From the Jewish point of view, European anti-Semitism is a sideshow,” Charles Krauthammer writes today. “The story of European Jewry is over. It died at Auschwitz. Europe’s place as the center and fulcrum of the Jewish world has been inherited by Israel. Not only is it the first independent Jewish commonwealth in 2,000 years. It is, also for the first time in 2,000 years, the largest Jewish community on the planet.”

“The threat to the Jewish future lies not in Europe but in the Muslim Middle East, today the heart of global anti-Semitism, a veritable factory of anti-Jewish literature, films, blood libels and calls for violence, indeed for another genocide,” he adds.

Anti-semitism was temporarily eclipsed by killing a lot of people who attempted genocide. Were I the Israelis, I’d be a lot more willing to do that again. But, you know, maybe that’s just a Scots-Irish thing.