The Idiocy Of Global Public Opinion
Globaloney: That creature known as “world opinion” is stirring again, rousted for the first time since the campaign of Barack Obama or maybe the Iraq War. Now it’s condemning Israel. And as usual, it’s wrong.
But that hasn’t ever stopped a good street demonstration. Monday’s ship confrontation between terrorist-sponsored blockade runners and Israeli armed forces has drawn an avalanche of global condemnation against Israel, with loud street protests and condemnatory words from the leaders who either represent them or else fear them.
Demonstrations sprang up like mushrooms in such far-flung places as The Hague, Algiers, Kuala Lumpur, London, Prague, Lahore, Stockholm, Malmo, Gothenburg, New York, Sligo, Letterkenny, Copenhagen, Oxford, Brussels, Cairo, Frankfurt, Beirut, Sanaa in Yemen, Tampa, Montreal, Oslo, Burlington, Vt., and even in Jerusalem in the days since the confrontation.
So when one hears “we are the world,” the unifying emblem would now seem to be a burning Israeli flag.