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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/05/west-stuck-in-its-arrogant-torpor-thank-god-for-israel/
Thank God for Israel's Bravery
(Telegraph-UK) Zoe Strimpel - There's the real world in which there are bullies, aggressors and perpetrators - and the proper response to them. And then there's the fake world in which right and wrong and life and death don't seem to exist, in which the victim is blamed for angering, and then responding to, the bully. In which the bully becomes the victim as soon as anyone tries to stop them. In which mendacious respectability requires the condemnation of war, escalation, and the inflammation of tensions. In which anything is better than making the bully more angry. In which appeasement is the emotional and political order of the day. In which winning is taboo. In which the "international community" and dubious "international law" are weaponized against the good guys. Israel is the real world. It alone among Western nations is awake. It is fighting a multi-pronged war with its Iran-funded enemies, and it is a war waged to be won. Israel is busy fighting a battle whose outcome could determine the fate of the entire world, in the West and beyond. Israel knows it is facing an existential threat. We don't seem to, even though it is staring us in the face. Iran, in cahoots with other Islamist territories, plus Russia and China, could well take us all down - and would stand a much greater chance of doing so if Israel was behaving with less warlike courage, clarity of mission, ingenuity and persistence.