Low on Capital

Avigdor Lieberman, the Foreign Minister of Israel, said that Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, shouldn't be putting Israel's continued settlement building at the top of the international agenda. He said, "North Korea fired three missiles yesterday" and he alsobrought up Iran's continued efforts to develop nuclear technology. Here's a tip for the Israeli Foreign Minister: don't align yourself with two members of the Axis of Evil. Two wrongs do not make a right and just because Iran and North Korea are breaking the rules doesn't mean that Israel gets to break them as well. Especially since North Korea and Iran are under heavy sanctions from the UN.

Israel has got to understand that while 6 million Jews were killed 70 years ago, a lot has happened since then. Germany has paid its debt to society, Jews got their own homeland, and we've been kissing their ass ever since. Here's the point: stop breaking the law. Eventually Israel is going to run out of the political capital necessary to keep its impressive list of allies and then the Muslim world, which will by then include a nuclear Iran, will be free to do as it pleases.

The United States, the European Union, and soon the United Nations, are toughening their stances on Israeli settlements and for good reason. As Chancellor Merkel so astutely states, "they are blocking the peace process." Jews should understand what it's like to be kept down due to religion and race, and they should remember the golden rule that even Moses followed: do unto others what you would have done unto you.

Nobody likes a bully and though we've turned our back to Israel's practices for 60 years, their continued belligerence towards the Palestinians and apathy towards the international community's concerns will find them in a tough spot: alone.