Insignificance

"Anti-semitic little Belgium" is not playing nicely, it seems, in its ambitious attempt to try Ariel Sharon for his alleged war crimes in Lebanon in 1982. Israel's foreign minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is calling it a "blood libel" that is indicative of "Old Europe's" treatment of its Jews, a sentiment echoed by the justice minister, Meir Sheetrit, who adds, interestingly, that Belglium is a "small and insignificant" country. Disregarding the anti-Semitism for now, as I think it it is primarily, though not devoid of possible truth, another ad hominem argument thrown into the EU-Israeli fray, it's odd, don't you think, that Israel's number two trade partner, Belgium, should so quickly become "insignificant"? Word of advice to Israeli suitors: you might want to go ahead and get next year's Valentine's Day diamond set now.