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Cal Thomas: Western governments must remove their blinders and support Israel's attempt to curtail an anti-Israel virus, not only for Israel's sake, but out of self-interest, because a strain of it is already spreading to Europe and America.

The Hamas rockets and Israeli bombs falling around Gaza are reverberating a world away in Maryland, where many have close family ties or personal history with the region.

Jeffrey Low, the father of a Baltimore-born Israeli soldier who was wounded in Gaza over the weekend, was flying to Tel Aviv to see his son on Tuesday when the news came: Ben Gurion Airport was under attack, and his flight was diverting to Paris.

A Senate bill on visa waivers for Israel would allow it to keep out those it suspects for any reason — including their religion, Arab heritage or sympathy for the Palestinian cause.