The New Holocaust

2006 brings the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel.

Many Democrats in Congressman Mark Kirk's 10th district scoff at his assessment of the risks facing Israel. Here's Ellen of 10th:

Kirk goes around the district asking us to imagine that we wake up one morning to a telephone ring or we are brushing our teeth and the telephone rings and our friend, brother or cousin (whatever he feels like during any particular speech) tells us that Israel...is...gone. Kirk also asks us to think about Germany in 1939 and Kristallnacht, vivid imagery of disaster for Jews for the Jewish community of our district to think about and internalize every day and, of course, only Kirk and his republican bosses have the answers.

As an active Naval Reserve intelligence officer, serving in DC, Kirk is in a unique position and warrants credibility on the issue. An article by Richard Baehr, "The Fate of the Jewish People" lays out the danger. Via RCP:

But as Krauthammer also pointed out, the world's one large growing Jewish community is enormously vulnerable. More than 60% of Israel's Jews live in a thin strip of land by the coastal plain, less than 75 miles north to south and 10 miles wide, smaller in size than the Great State of Rhode Island. When Krauthammer wrote his article in 1998, the threat of Iranian nuclear devices directed at this population seemed remote.

Don't look to the UN for help, the dictator-dominated assemblage is famously toothless in dealing with rogue states and is back to its blatant anti-Semitism, as outlined in this Tribune editorial today. And then there are those anti-Semitic-enabling Democrats around here.

We are facing a new holocaust. Democrats, do you care?