The Political Economy of Hypocrisy. Watching the uproar of hand-wringing, condemnation, moral pontificating and pointed slanders one cannot but marvel at the extraordinary universality of the world's racist hypocrisy on anything to do with Israel. Their attempt to paint a wretched racist murderer as a moderate man of peace and Israel's more than justified ending of his odious existence as an "escalation" of a situation daily escalated by Palestinian terror and genocidal rhetoric is nothing more than the self-abasement of the world. The leap into the abyss of anti-semitism on the part of the entire international community at once. It is beyond disgusting. It is beyond corrupted. It is beyond dangerous. It is, quite simply, the collapse of the moral authority of the world in relation to the State of Israel and the Jewish people.