Manipulation of fears

I can easily imagine the face of a self-sufficient idiot reading in the morning the news about the scientist working in USA pledging guilty for spying for the state of Israel. "A Jew can't be trusted", "a Jew is always having a double allegiance", are only the most polite remarks associated with such news that you could read on public forums or hear in the media or at the bar's corner. Most part of them are an eternal example of the plain anti-semitism.

The media exposure devoted to Pollard's case makes us ignore that, normally, US is spying on Israel too. And China is spying on everybody, and Russia even more, why not Iran then or France or Australia or...? As long as they have foreign intelligence services be sure that such actions will take place, more or less successfully.

The discussions - eternal as the history of man - about "a purge" of the military, diplomacy or secret services - the country doesn't matter as it could take place anywhere - are again on the agenda. Remember, for example, the hysteria during the Cold War, whose victims were also scientists of Jewish origin who worked to various sensitive military projects, as Oppenheimer.

Shortly after 9/11, Fox News released a four series report about the "Israeli who spies on the USA" and didn't share information that would have helped to stop the terrorist attacks, quoting reports mentioning that "Israeli are oriented by strong survival feelings". A couple of years after, youtube was invaded by the outrageous conspirationist idiocies.

Playing with such messages is a bad taste game and Europe and the world in general, US included, should learn a lot at least from the tragic lessons of the WWII.

Of course, never believe this story about the freedom of the media and most probably many of those media reports aren't published now, at mid-September, only for the sake of informing the public. The fact that the Palestinians officially - as unoficially it's an operation-in-process for a couple of months, maybe years - launched their PR campaign for recognition of their "state" might not be accidental. As for the idea of a PR campaign for a state as you launch a new line of shoes...I prefer to have my professional objections.

Shabbat Shalom and let's hope about wisdom and peace!