Does the West get it yet?
Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel has brought the world to its worst crisis point in decades. Western appeasement of Islamists at home and abroad is to blame. The West must rediscover its values.
Iran has shown what Israel has been telling the world for years, that the Islamic Republic is a congenitally evil regime that wants to destroy the Jewish state. So, why does the international community still not get it?
The world has pilloried Israel for defending itself against Hamas, the Iran-backed Palestinian Jihadist terror group behind the October 7 pogrom. Now, even after Iran attacked Israel directly with 350 missiles and drones, those same critics are telling Israel not to respond, citing “regional security”.
What nonsense. What about Israel’s security? It is Iran that is the aggressor, directly and via its proxies. More than being a threat, Iran is cause of the Middle East’s instability and insecurity.
The West’s moral confusion about this is symptomatic of an inner decay that starts at home and then bleeds into foreign policy. It stems from years of giving the wrong answer to an old political philosophy chestnut: ”Should a liberal society be so tolerant that it accepts illiberal forces that want to overthrow it?”
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