Twenty years ago this week, machete-wielding militias of the Hutu tribe in Rwanda were carrying out nationwide massacres of members of the country's ethnic minority, the Tutsis. Detailed information about the genocide began reaching the West almost as soon as it started.

As the search continues for the three teenagers who were kidnapped while hitchhiking to their settlement in the West Bank over a week ago, Israel's historical dilemma regarding terrorism is starting to come with a hitch: The sympathy the western world once lavished on the Jewish state has lessened to the point of near indifference.

Aside from the Jewish kings Saul, David, Solomon and, of course, Netanyahu when it came to serving in an official governmental capacity, the highest position a Jew could once hope to achieve was limited to Court Jew you know, Joseph, Mordechai, Mayer Rothschild, Rabbi Stephen Wise and, of course, Henry Kissinger. Valued for their wisdom on matters of finance and policy, they earned the sovereign's trust but could never receive the public's vote as elected representatives.

Fascism is back in fashion nearly all throughout Europe. Elections for the European Parliament, with ballots cast in 28 countries, produced a startling victory for the sort of political parties that are normally not invited to fashionable parties.