Someone once said “The color of truth is a shade of gray.” The general public is bombarded daily with all kinds of news. In the last month we have seen Israel forcibly enter another country to chase a small faction of people that kidnapped two of their soldiers. Once there, they began a two-pronged attack. One, on the people of that country, abandoning any regard for innocence or guilt. Two, on the world via a PR blitz about defending Israel’s survival.
We have seen this type of action from Israel time and time again. It’s nothing new. The only way it could get murkier is for the U. S. Jewish community to find some poor high-profile sucker that shot off his mouth in a drunken stupor and then call him anti-Semitic. Very convenient and very diversionary.
I’m not anti-Semitic either, but I bet that if you were to read this to the author of your most recent article on Mel Gibson (What was his name, oh, yeah, Jonathan Friedman) that he would probably say I was. Any diversion, any port in a storm, as long as you don’t let people focus on the bombing of a UN Observation Post, the bombing of an Australian rescue convoy, or the death of a one day old Lebanese child.
It’s just not black or white. The problem is determining what shade of gray is right. But one way or the other, the Jewish community leaders are not fooling all of us. It’s gray and murky.
Bob Wilson