Selective enforcement is a democratic horror show, and failure to stop it now could be devastating to Israel's existence as a justice-seeking society.

The synagogue's existence and the tacit approval it has received from this Islamic sheikhdom represent a slow rebirth of a burgeoning Jewish community in the Persian Gulf, uprooted over the decades after the creation of Israel.

Pinchas Goldschmidt, the chief rabbi of the main Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe, says a resurgence of anti-Semitism on the continent "poses an existential threat to the Jewish community." Goldschmidt: Receding memory of the Holocaust, rising far-right sentiment, and radical Islam are the key factors fueling the anti-Semitic climate.

The mass protests in Lebanon, and Iraq, have thrown Iran and mainly Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah off balance, even to the point of alarm. Sadly, due to traditional ethnic and tribal allegiances, the angry youth in the streets aren't likely to foster any real change.

Western countries are now paying the price of their former leaders’ naiveté regarding the “mild political Islam” they ridiculously hoped would be a role model for other Muslim countries.