Parsha politics :(

A few days ago, I was reading a free Jewish newspaper, and practically the first four pages were filled with dire news about Obama's plans for Israel and Iranian insanity. So I was hoping eventually to find something less dire in that paper. Finally, I got to the column about the weekly Torah reading, but it was a gornisht helfen (no help). "Oh, great," I thought, "it's about last Shabbat's (Sabbath's) reading, Tazria-Metzora. Just what I want, to go from one plague to another. :("

And then it hit me: Medinat Yisrael/The State of Israel is the world's leper. :(