Mel Gibson is Nothing

What I am about to write will really piss off a number of people. Don't think I am making excuses for Mel Gibson. I am not.

The Mel Gibson thing is still getting a lot of media play, but Mel isn't the real anti-Semite to worry about. Sure, he hates Jews, but not in the "let's kill them off" way. There are different categories of hatred. Some people simply hate Jews but have no intention of killing one. Mel falls into this category, I believe. And frankly, there is no law against him hating Jews in this way - or any other group of people that made him a millionaire several times over.

Plus, he's suffering plenty. ABC has announced the cancellation of a planned miniseries about the Holocaust it was developing with Gibson's Icon Productions. What else could they do?

There are more dangerous men in the world than Mel Gibson.

The European Union does not intend to place Hizbullah on its list of terrorist organizations for the time being, EU President Finland said on Tuesday.

"Given the sensitive situation, I don't think this is something we will be acting on now," Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, told a news conference following an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

The world itself is strongly anti-Semitic, and the EU especially so. Either the EU doesn't have the fortitude to do the right thing, or the EU is anti-Semitic. Possibly a combination of the two, since there are so many Muslims living in Europistan.

Russia recently published a list of 17 groups it regards as terrorist organizations and did not include the Palestinian movement Hamas or Lebanon's Hizbullah group, both of which are regarded as terrorists in Washington.

Groups on the list, published in the official daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, included al-Qaeda and the Taliban as well as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a rebel group fighting for Kashmir's independence from India, and Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood.

Basically, the Russians condemned groups that have targeted the Russia. It has no problem with groups that kill Israeli citizens, nor will it take a stand and do anything to stand with innocent Jews, even something as simple as call Hesbollah a bad guy.

Mel's drunken rage may make good press, and it gives a lot of people to say "woe is me... look at all the anti-Semitism." But this is misplaced. Deadly anti-Semitism is on display right now against Israel.