Thus the pro Israeli message reported yesterday that the world should wake up and support a civilized state in the MidEast rather than the oil rich savages. I know it’s hard for Republicans to repudiate the Saudi’s as much as it is for the Democrats to face up to the real Egyptian messages they send and we cancel out. A tunnel used to arm Hamas just can’t be found leading from Egypt to Gaza. Hmmmm. I wonder if they looked underground.

So case in point Romney recognizes the lack of willingness of Arabs to become democracies in a civilized sense not by Islamic fundamentalist definition. It’s hard if not impossible to strike a tone of reconciliation with Arabs who forestall on peace developments while they are glad to export oil. And Republicans traditionally ally themselves with the Arabs in spite of their boasting of their recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The absurdity of the recent cringing over this misstep by the Democratic convention brings to clear view the fact that both parties recognize Jerusalem when it comes to little clauses in the convention(al) speeches, but somehow r reluctant to follow through in that eloquent hall of bombastic stupidity the Congress. To congregate or to digress?

So it’s no wonder unhappy, frustrated Americans react emotionally to the murdering Libyans. Murdering. Not just terrorizing. It was Netanyahu who had to define for colloquial language dwellers the difference between terrorists who practice suicide bombing children’s schools and freedom fighters who defend themselves against blatant missile attacks on farms and villages in southern Israel.

You know in closing there was something that came up last night about the difference between American and even western European freedom of speech. My son heard a young Jewish Harvard professor explaining the old supreme court perhaps Justice Brandeis decision about yelling fire in a crowded theater. The distinguishing factor in our more open minded view of free speech is proximity to imminent threat of danger. Thus the distinction between espousing an opinion or an appeal to overthrow the US government when GWB invaded Iraq done in public or done in the privacy of ones home. So in Europe where National Socialism ( a far right wing extremist mob which described itself as socialist) sprouted evil out of willingness to roll over and die and follow immoral orders faithfully w/o compromise it is illegal to make certain remarks like the holocaust is a lie. Yet Abbas our good friend in the PA is such a person.

We do not learn.