Israel “behind both world wars”
Israel is blamed for many things, but bizarrely Syria has now accused Israel - founded in 1948 - of being behind both World War I and World War II! It happened at a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, called to discuss terrorism. As reported in the Jerusalem Post:
The [Israeli] ambassador said Israel has “an intimate awareness of the need to fight international terrorism,” and stressed that there can be no justification for terrorism.
Syria responded that Israel was the one precipitating a third world war, saying that “If we examine the matter, we will find that Israel was behind the eruption of both World War I and World II.”
It could not of course have been the State of Israel, which did not exist. Perhaps Syria meant the Jews, the supposed hidden hand behind every catastrophe to strike the world. Clearly, the sophisticates who maintain that being anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic are completly different things should know that countries like Syria and Iran know no such distinction.
