November 21st, '03
The Wages of Denial

I haven't added anything to my Israel Diary in a while, because I'm tired. Getting my kids through flu season is part of it. Maybe it also has something to do with the blustery change-of-season winds that seem to be whipping up every allergen in the Middle East and sending them my way. But mostly I'm tired of all the bad news.

Against the continual drumbeat of "minor" terrorist attacks here in Israel, the news is filled with reports of a steady stream of anti-Jewish attacks around the world... synagogues destroyed in Turkey, a school firebombed in France, a Holocaust memorial burned down in America, and the revelation that a report on antisemitism in Europe commissioned by the EU was hushed up and shelved, because it dared to conclude that Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind many of the incidents it chronicled.

I don't pretend to be objective about anti-semitism. To paraphrase my friend the novelist, David Margolis: when they try to kill me, I take it personally. So given my present mind-set it is a rare article that can shake me out of my complacency, and remind me that - as a nation at war - is is still incumbent upon us to feel for the losses on the other side.

Here is the article. Read it.

The Wages of Denial by Larry Derfner

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