Only a Matter of Time

Until an American synagogue is blown-up. I'm sorry to say it, but there it is. These four alleged bombers picked up in New York this evening were "aspirational" anti-Semitic murderers, according to the police, but one day someone will plant a real bomb outside a synagogue. And you know what? The American Jewish leadership knows this, and yet does virtually nothing to help prepare for the inevitable.

More to come on this case, undoubtedly, but let's contemplate for a moment the unique nature of anti-Semitism: These plotters are evidently upset at America for its actions in Afghanistan. So they target the U.S. military -- this makes a perverted kind of sense -- and they target synagogues. This makes no sense at all unless they believed that Jews are Satan's representatives on earth. Which a frighteningly large number of people apparently do.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/05/only-a-matter-of-time/17975/