What to talk about? All-purpose answer: Jews. It always is. According to an EU poll last week, 59% of Europeans think Israel is the biggest threat to world peace. If that 59% sounds kinda low, don’t forget it’s an average. 69% of Austrians and 74% of the Dutch think Israel is the world’s greatest menace. Not bad for a country that at its narrowest point is barely wider than my rural township in New Hampshire. The Europeans are only a step away from that substantial chunk of the Arab world which manages simultaneously to rejoice in the slaughter of 9/11 and blame the Jews for it. Now that increased vigilance by America, Britain and others has made it harder for terrorists to gain access to their most sought-after targets and al-Qaeda has been reduced to massacring fellow Muslims in Saudi Arabia, it’s surely only a matter of time before that, too, is pinned on the Jews.
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