LGF links to an article in Pakistan Today that says basically that the radical muslims (and isn't it about time we settled on a short and snazzy name for those fucks? nazi and red were so much better) hate the USA and the Jews/Israel because they both stand for freedom ( of the mind first and most of all) and there is nothing totalitarians hate more than free people.
That made me think of Europe and the recent revival of anti-semitism
Might it be that in a Europe that turns to bureaucracy instead of democracy a people that stand for freedom would be hated? that in some way the jews are perceived by the euro-elites as an obstacle to the establishment of an all encompassing and non elected european government ?
It's obvious why the USA being such a big counter example would be hated by people with that "vision" but why the jews? I can't explain it but it is worth noticing that the more "euroholic" a country is ( like France or the Scandinavian countries) the more strident is their anti-semitism while the more euro-skeptic countries ( like the UK or Italy) are much more relaxed in their obligatory Israel bashing.
I'm not saying all the other reasons suggested by so many others (guilt , politics , oil )for the re-emergence of the ancient hate are wrong or unimportant I'm just adding another brick to the wall.

Fighting the last "War"

LGF has this post about a guy who plans to bring several thousand western citizens to azza and J&S to serve as human shields for the terrorists. He apparently tried a similar stunt in Iraq in 2003 .
There are almost 600 comments and I haven't read them all but I think I have an original insight on this. Apart from the deeply ingrained racism that makes someone think that the israeli government or the american government or going to be more worried or careful with the lives of westerners then they are with the lives of arabs , what I see here is anachronism. That guy is living in a peacetime reality where the fight against terrorism is a police matter and civilian casualties are something to be avoided at almost any cost . But this is war . And in war time enemy civilian casualties or even casualties among non enemy civilians who are living in enemy occupied territories is just NOT a major concern.
What makes things even worse from his point of view is that there are no limiting factors here , The cold war is over and no one needs to keep wars limited to avoid MAD so this war ( or these two wars if you want) can escalate at will .
The last war fought like that was WW2 and I don't remember anyone then giving a shit about civilians .
This guy is living in the 50's and 60's and 70's limited , media oriented insurgency/terrorism proxy wars when he should be looking at the early 40's so not only is O'keefe anachronistic he is not anachronistic enough.