The "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" is, of course, a Czarist forgery that has been used by Nazis, communists and now radical Muslims to inspire Jew hatred.
Israel is the only country in the world that faced trial in the International Court of Justice for attempting to defend itself from terrorists. The ICJ declared that Israel's security fence violated international law. Where, one wonders, does Hamas – which calls for Israel's "obliteration" -- fall within the confines of international law?
Israel's thriving democracy produces ironies. The Likud Party is now reduced to 11 seats in the Knesset. The combined Arab Israeli parties hold 10 seats. There is not a single Arab country in which Jews are permitted to serve in government. Israeli Arabs are not unhappy with their lives. Some Israelis have floated the idea of a sovereignty exchange; that Israeli Arab villages should be offered to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for Jewish communities in the West Bank coming under Israeli control. Israeli Arabs hate this idea. If Israel were truly the apartheid state of leftist propaganda, wouldn't the Arab population welcome an opportunity to escape?
Meanwhile, Israel's freewheeling parliamentary system tosses up peculiarities that resemble the California recall election of 2003. Among those contending for seats in the Knesset were the Green Leaf Party, which favors legalization of marijuana, and the Meretz Party, which favors Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders and dividing Jerusalem. The former won no seats, but even now, even in the face of the Hamas victory in the Palestinian areas, Meretz won four of the Knesset's 120 seats.
Liberty includes the right to be stupid.