Victor Davis Hanson, in an article entitled “Worry About the West – Not Israel:”
The Western press — usually so careful to condemn hate speech — is utterly silent about Arab racism. But a European paper recently published a cartoon portraying Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a Nazi, secure that no rabbi would issue threats that could cost the editors their heads.
Still, when this is all over, we should not worry about the survival of
Israel. For weeks, pundits have been lecturing how canny and adept Hezbollah has proved — and how a clumsy Israel could only respond by destroying Lebanon’s infrastructure. Yet, when the dust settles, the world will learn that Lebanon outside Hezbollah’s domain is not destroyed. And, one hopes, those who have suffered in the Hezbollah-controlled south will reexamine their support for a terrorist organization that has brought them — and itself — to near ruin.
Instead far more worrisome is the moral crisis in the West itself. If so many of its politicians, intellectuals and media will not or cannot fathom moral differences in this war, they will hardly be able to see them anywhere else.
David Warren, writing from
Not all my readers appreciate that we are seeing now, in southern
Lebanon and northern Israel, and across swathes of Afghanistan and Iraq, a harbinger of our future.
The war with fanatical Islam is spreading, and must come to us. It already has, in its terror phase. We have huge police and security forces working around the clock to prevent terror attacks from happening in
Canada; all convinced that such attacks are inevitable.
We cannot know how the war will develop; only that it will. . . . Does that sound alarmist to you? If so, I can only reply, wake up, gentle reader. The very people who guard you in your sleep are alarmed on your behalf. . . .
Israel is facing the same enemy all free peoples in the West are facing . . . . And if we do not support Israel, we do not support ourselves.
Nidra Poller, in an exclusive at Atlas Shrugs, tells
Don’t apologize because there is no one on earth to apologize to. You can’t apologize to people who are sitting on the sidelines enjoying life while Israeli civilians suffocate in bunkers and Israeli soldiers courageously face death, fighting Hizbullah that is fighting for Iran that is fighting to destroy us all, Israelis, Americans, Europeans, Japanese, Indians . . .
You can’t reassure them by saying how good you are, how careful not to make tragic mistakes. . . . The injustice is beyond belief: the small nation of
Israel has to fight against Iran, and as if that’s not enough, gets stabbed in the back while engaged in fierce battle.
Don’t explain this, they don’t want to know. Use it to our advantage, use it to transform our place in the world. You are fighting to defend
Israel’s existence, to establish authentic sovereignty for Israel and, beyond that, to bring an end for Jews everywhere to vicious cycles of persecution, extermination, and restoration.
We are not victims, we are not mercenaries, we are no one’s protectorate. The cost of this war is too high today but the benefits can be multiplied if we rise to the full dignity that goes with such momentous responsibility. What is
Israel doing in Lebanon today? Israel is doing to Lebanon what we would have done to Germany when Hitler came to power . . . if we had a state then . . . but we didn’t . . . and we do now.
Which is exactly what Lynn-B said at the beginning of this war in her stunning post.