No, you are not going insane

We are living through a moral apocalypse. Each day brings a new series of outrages against Israel. Staying sane in the face of lies and evil has become a full-time job. Fortunately, you are up to it.

The International Criminal Court (center) and the International Court of Justice, with the United Nations in the background.

The good news is that you are not crazy. You are not imagining things. The bad news is that the world is every bit as morally unhinged as it looks.

It is easy to think your mind is slipping when you read daily about a world where wrong is the norm, evil is venerated, racism is acceptable, terror is rewarded, and palpable lies are treated as truth. It is not you. It is the world.

Consider:

• United Nations’ (UN) representatives stood in silence to pay respects to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, aka “the Butcher of Tehran”, as though his death was a loss to humanity.

• Ireland and Spain, which have long and awful experiences of terror, think it is a good idea to reward it by recognizing a Palestinian state. It might be wise for them to be careful what they wish for.

• The International Criminal Court (ICC) is trying to arrest Israel’s leaders despite the court having no jurisdiction. Israel is not a member. Even if it were, it would violate the legal precept of “complementarity”. This means the court may exert jurisdiction only in cases where national legal systems fail to do so.

• The ICC’s allegations are the precise opposite of the truth. Far from targeting civilians, Israel has conducted the most moral war in history, as evidenced by the lowest ever civilian-to-combatant ratio. Far from hindering humanitarian aid, Israeli has allowed 18,255 trucks into Gaza carrying 399,580 tons of food, 59,660 tons of shelter equipment and 23,110 tons of medical supplies. This is so much aid the UN has said it cannot not distribute it all.

• Israel is the only country in history required to supply aid to the enemy in war.

• The Jewish state’s democratically elected leaders are treated as equivalent to Hamas’ leaders who built the biggest terror infrastructure in history, launched a pogrom that butchered 1200 Israelis, and other foreign nationals, and abducted 253 people.

• The world’s leaders, representative bodies, and media have forgotten about the remaining 125 hostages who have been held for seven months underground, being raped and tortured. Some of them are dual Israeli-foreign citizens, eight are Thai, one is Nepalese. A French-Mexican hostage has just been found dead. Nobody cares.

• The international community has failed to condemn meaningfully Hamas’ systematic use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war. This ought to be the simplest thing for anyone who is morally sentient.

• Hamas’ butchering of civilians and Israel’s attacking of terrorists are deemed equivalent.

• The international community and non-governmental organizations impose and agitate for trade and investment boycotts against Israel, but not against the terrorist group Hamas, which started the war and terrorizes its own people.

• Media claims to report what is happening in Gaza, while simultaneously complaining about its lack of access.

• News outlets use Hamas terrorists and sympathizers as reporters, photographers, and sources. They then stand behind them as credible sources.

• The people with the highest educational achievements are the most ignorant and misinformed.

• The world’s most elite universities are rubbish. Young people go into them smart and come out lobotomized.

• Police in so-called liberal democracies turn out in large numbers to keep the streets safe for Jihadists and Nazis.

• Police arrest lone Jews for fear that Jihadist anti-Israel mobs will attack them. They do not arrest the mobs. They call this policing.

• Israel uses soldiers to protect its civilians, while Hamas uses its civilians to protect its soldiers. This garners no objections.

• Hamas uses kindergartens, schools, and hospitals as terror bases, hiding behind toddlers and cancer patients. The international community considers this to be copacetic.

• The UN is an Islamist terror sponsor. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), a dedicated Palestinian refugee agency, employs terrorists, shelters them, allows its premises to be used as weapons depots and command centers, and indoctrinates Palestinian children to hate Jews. Yet, everyone pretends it is a serious body.

• The UN still exists despite it being deeply corrupt and having achieved nothing since its inception, except as a sheltered workshop for unemployable freeloaders and professional parasites.

• The international community is the world’s biggest terror sponsor, with governments and agencies sending billions of dollars to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority to wage war against Israel. This cognitive dissonance rattles no one.

• Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) teach Palestinian children right out of the womb to hate Jews and aspire to grow up and murder them. Hamas even has them playing games involving burying loved ones as martyrs. There is precedent. During the Iran-Iraq War, the Iranians lacked minesweeping equipment, so they wrote prayers on their children and sent them to detonate the minefields. UNWRA helps Hamas and the PA indoctrinate Palestinian children. The West funds this and calls it humanitarian aid.

• Hamas has encouraged Palestinians in Gaza to have many children, so it has more martyrs in its campaign to murder Jews. It has tied men’s incomes to how many children they have. The media leaves this out and reports only that Gaza has an unusually high number of children, as if it is a mystery why. That is wickedly tragic, but context still matters.

• Foreign governments, including alleged liberal democracies, fund the PA to pay terrorists who murder Jews. The more Jews they kill, the more money they earn. That is your taxpayer dollars, hard at work.