Shimon Peres at the Waldorf

++Shimon Peres, the 91-year old former President of Israel, was honored at a Gala For Israel the other night. This event received extensive coverage in Israel because the event brought forth some of the new Israeli celebrities with the older pioneers.

++This was a welcome change from Bibi's antics and a reminder of the best of Israel. Peres took a very different view of Iran than Bibi and he also tried to tamp down the calls for European Jewry to make an exodus to Israel, messages you don't hear much in the States. Shimon Peres is perversely upbeat about the future in the Middle East. He saw the Arab Spring as being beneficial and the rise of a new generation capable of making peace. But he always had that dimension to him. It's why President Obama awarded him the Medal of Freedom.

++Today the Prime Minister of Denmark and President Obama together promised to fight the new anti-semiticism in Europe and terrorism. 

++If you can say a cool story came from the Holocaust, it had to be the evacuation of the Danish Jews under the noses of the Nazi occupiers. It was a moment of national pride and honor that the Danish people themselves ,knowing of the Nazis plans for their fellow countrymen, risked life and limb to smuggle them all out of the country in private boats. 

++That's why over 30,000 marched today in Copenhagen in denunciation of the killings at the Free Speech seminar and the synagogue. 

Reality Check

++The war in Syria will still continue and the UN now estimates the displaced at 6 million.

++The rapid movement toward a UN resolution for international control of Syria's chemical weapons has thrown Washington off-kilter. Expect a change in Obama's address to the Nation tonight and a revamping of the military authorization resolution.

++Spend the next couple days reading how the pundits try to get a grip on the events and how they back peddle like crazy. What has become obvious is that the D.C. punditry haven't a clue as to the diplomatic history on Syria and how it seemed to have changed on a dime. 

++Remember what Shimon Peres said two days ago,"Have patience." He tweeted last light, rather cryptically," Syria is about to change."

++If this potential conflict gets settled diplomatically,which I think it will,the drama queens will move on to some other egregious error of President Obama. I guess I have become too jaundiced after hearing on issue after issue,"Can Obama succeed? If he fails he is a doomed President."

++A leftwing blogger posted on DailyKos his belief that President Obama will resign in 2014. This mirrors Dick Morris' prediction that because Obama was so depressed he would resign before the end of his first term.

++As you watch the television coverage, remember almost all talking heads are rich,white people, who are clueless about diplomacy and foreign affairs.