(Spiked-UK) Mick Hume - It's now clear that, given a free hand, Israel can handle its mortal enemies in the Middle East. It's their so-called friends in the West and the international community that the Israelis have to worry about. In 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have hammered the genocidal pogromists of Hamas in Gaza, devastated their fellow Islamist terrorists of Hizbullah in Lebanon, and shaken their sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, to its tyrannical roots. All of which also facilitated the collapse of the Assad dictatorship in Syria. Anybody who believes in freedom should surely be celebrating the success of the only Western-style democracy in the Middle East as a blow struck for civilization against barbarism. Instead, Israel's traditional Western allies have spent 2024 retreating from its side. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for allegedly committing crimes against humanity in Gaza - the first leader of a Western-style democracy to be charged with war crimes. Forget all the tyrants on Earth, the prime minister of the world's only Jewish state must apparently be singled out for punishment. And several Western states have declared their willingness to execute the warrant and arrest him. Every UN Security Council member except the U.S. recently backed a call for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent" ceasefire in Gaza. That amounted to a near-unanimous demand for Israel to surrender to its enemies. International media have somehow twisted Israel's just war against the genocidal death cult responsible for the Oct. 7 pogrom as an act of genocide. In reality, the IDF has gone to greater lengths than any army in history to reduce civilian casualties. The desertion of Israel is a travesty not only for Israelis and Jews but for the West itself. The Israelis are fighting for the principles on which our civilized societies were built: democracy, national sovereignty and freedom. We should be supporting them as the front line in the global war against barbarism and slavery.
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