While MSM's Cover Gibson - Hezbollah's Goosesteps Repeat History

On this date, 70 years ago, Europe was in the same position the Middle East is in now and the world is in denial.

On August 1st, 100,000 people stood up and saluted Hitler with great cheers and aplomb at the Olympics. Hard to imagine this today, isn't it? Or is it?

History does repeat itself. Yesterday Rush brought up Michael Ledeen's column on Syria and Iran. Hezbollah is growing exponentially while indoctrinating the world in hate-mongering and anti-Semitism while the peaceniks, liberals, and socialists are in denial. If you're not old enough to remember the 1930's (and I'm not - my mom lived through it) then Ledeen's column is a must read.

Certainly there is lots of bad news, most of which confirms what we already knew: The Western world hates Israel; the taboo on anti-Semitism is off; the Western world has been P.C.’ed to the edge of death; there is no stomach for fighting the war against Islamic fascism.It is the Thirties again.

Many of the statements above apply to Franklin Roosevelt’s first two administrations, and to the political atmosphere of those dreadful years. Then, too, the mounting power of what became the Axis was ignored. As my father often reminded me, a few months before Pearl Harbor, at a time when Nazi armies were long since on the march, the draft passed by a single vote. Apologists for Hitler and Mussolini were legion, and some of our leading intellectuals were saying that American democratic capitalism was a failure, and we would do well to emulate the European totalitarians.

So I don’t see this moment as something unique, the result of some inner rot, or a moment on a greased skid leading to the abyss. It’s one of the many things we are. But we are many things, and we are not like the Europeans, many of whom are reviving their anti-Semitic fantasies in an effort to cope with their weakness and irrelevance.

Hezbollah Coming To A School Near You.

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Michelle Malkin updates the anti-Semitic Seattle shooting:

The Seattle shooter who killed one woman and shot five other women in their stomachs after declaring he was a "Muslim-American" who was "angry at Israel" has been charged with nine felony counts including murder, hate crimes, and kidnapping...

Cox and Forkham round up the usual suspects.