So, to recap this week’s Middle East news, the Syrian government is closing in on 6,000 civilian casualties for which it’s blaming Israel and the U.S., and Iran’s top religious grand Pooh-Bah, or whatever he is, is calling for the extermination of Israel in particular and Jews in general.

And yet, oddly, there are no threats coming from the United States or her allies to intervene militarily as they did, for instance, when Libya’s Qaddafi was killing his own people. And, equally inexplicably, the world is not out in the streets screaming for the dismantling of the Syrian entity or suggesting that Syria has no right to exist. No calls for war crimes trials. Nothing.

In its modern form, Syria, like nearly all the Arab countries, is about the same age as the modern state of Israel; a fact that for some reason escapes many people. Overlooking this fact makes it easier for the new anti-Semites, who call themselves anti-Israel or anti-Zionist, to condemn the Jewish state, suggesting it’s an interloper in the region.

Anti-Semitism, by any other name, stinks the same.

Nevertheless, despite this intentionally spread misconception, today’s Syria was declared independent from France by General Charles de Gaulle in Sept. 1941, it’s newly elected regime recognized by Joseph Stalin in July 1944 and formally gained independence as a Parliamentary Republic in April, 1946 – just two years before Israel was declared a state.

The timelines of nearly all the modern Arab states are similar, but only Israel is seen as a “new” country, with its 5,000-plus-year-history completely ignored, and worse, denied.

This, of course, is not the only area in which a weird inequity exists in world perceptions of the one and only Jewish state and the dozens of Arab ones.

Horrible violence, which even a casual observer would have to agree seems to occupy Islamic culture to an incredibly high degree, is reacted to completely differently when Jews are involved.

For instance, recalling that more than 5,600 civilians have so far been killed in Syria in just this episode, fewer than 900 died in Israel’s 2008-09 Gaza war, which was launched to quell constant rocket fire into the country’s civilian population. Yet that conflict sparked an actual war crimes investigation against Israel and there is no such call against Syria.

Israel was also internationally condemned for its 2006 incursion into southern Lebanon which cost some 1,200 lives and which was also undertaken to try to stop constant attacks against it, this time by Hezbollah.

Israel’s raid on a blockade-running Turkish  flotilla, in which nine armed anti-Semitic attackers on board were killed, produced more venomous outrage worldwide than the murder of thousands of Syrian civilians is doing now.

How can this be explained?

I think it may be partially a function of the world just not giving a rat’s ass about the Arabs. But mostly, I think, it has to do with deeply ingrained, perhaps incurable anti-Semitism.

For instance, as the bloodshed persists in Syria, the world is wringing its hands “searching for new diplomatic approaches” to stop the carnage, even as the “Syrian government blames the unrest on a foreign conspiracy by Israel and the West,” according to Associated Press. “It says armed gangs and terrorists are behind the uprising, not protesters seeking democratic change.”

Meanwhile, back at the seething epicenter of Islamo-Fascist poison, otherwise known as Iran, its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the death of all Jews and the destruction of Israel. On a website called Alef, Khamenei is heard saying “the opportunity must not be lost to remove this corrupting material. It is a jurisprudential justification to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”

And this is a country working feverishly to obtain nuclear capability while the world sits around discussing what to do about it.

Stating the obvious, while the hat and the facial hair might be different, the disease from which this Khamenei character and his minions suffer is the same as that which roiled in the warped psyches of Germany’s Nazi elite.

History is repeating itself, and we in the West are poised, unbelievably, to repeat our mistakes by not recognizing the serious and urgency of the matter or the depth of the depravity and evil that has consumed our enemies.

There are still people around who remember first-hand what happens when you allow a Jew-hating, sociopathic megalomaniac to run amok. How is it possible that it’s going to happen again, even as those survivors still live?

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