It reads, in Arabic:
“God is most great.
“Death to America.
“Death to Israel.
“A curse upon the Jews.
“Victory to Islam.”
On the flight over, my wife and I shared our row with an extremely pleasant older Jewish man, a British-born economist with a Ph.D. and a newly minted American citizen (as of three months ago), who had been a volunteer with Israeli forces during 1967’s Six Day War and who had, since, lost a son in military service to Israel.
He was coming over to check on some family property.
We enjoyed several lengthy conversations with him. (The flight from New York City to Tel Aviv is nearly twelve hours long.)
He was witheringly contemptuous of the Obama administration in general, and particularly of its policy toward Iran, and expressed hope that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government would soon take out Iran’s nuclear program.
On a related note, today was Israel’s Independence Day. (Yesterday was the “Day of Remembrance,” a memorial day for all those who have given their lives in, as they see it, defense of the State of Israel.) Along with thousands in the park across the street from our hotel, we watched formation after formation of Israeli military aircraft fly low over the beach.
With the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt leading its carrier battle group to the waters off of Yemen and Iranian vessels steaming toward the same location, carrying arms for the America-hating Houthi rebels there, it will be interesting to observe how the negotiations between Iran and the United States over the Iranian nuclear program fare.
As I’ve said several time before, I wish we had a president.
Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel
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