Op-ed: Israel's leaders, from left and right, refuse to take action. Sticking in place seems to aid them in preserving their interests, while Israel and its citizenry sink deeper into the diplomatic quicksand.

Following the Israeli government's announcement that it would be closing its embassy in El Salvador in 2017, the El Salvadorian foreign minister recounts the exploits of the country's heroic former consul general in Geneva, who saved 13,000 Hungarian Jewish families from almost certain deportation to death camps.