The small bombs that exploded during the past few days in the face of the European community, first in Bologna at President Mario Prodi, then at Trichet, president of the Central European Bank, and lastly at the Europol of AJA, fortunately did not hurt anyone, yet they could not have been more symbolic.
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In other words, unlike its older counterpart, today's anti-Semitism has a strictly political origin. In 1967, Charles De Gaulle left Israel defenseless at a time when no one predicted it would emerge from the Six Day War successful. In 1973, American aircraft bringing aid to Israel during the Yom Kippur War were refused permission to fly over European skies. Such behavior heralded an era of pure cynicism, in which Israel came to be viewed as culpable for every political hardship it endured, from Yasser Arafat's rejection of then prime minister Ehud Barak's peace offering at Camp David and Taba to the war of terror the Palestinians waged in its aftermath.
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All Europeans, particularly the French and the Germans, would have laughed three years ago - before the outbreak of what the Palestinians call the "Al-Aksa Intifada" - at anyone predicting the burning of synagogues and Jewish schools, the beating up of Jews in the streets, or the advice of rabbis to their congregants to stop wearing kippot or any other recognizable sign of their Judaism in public.
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The Christians in Europe have also been unconvinced that the path taken by the church allowing the Palestinian propagandists to present Jesus as one of theirs, as this endangers the relationship that makes Judeo-Christian culture the basis for human rights.
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