Israel is almost totally isolated. A visitor from another planet would have every reason to report back home that the greatest problem on Earth is the planet’s Jewish state. Although Israel is the size of the American state of New Jersey and smaller than El Salvador, and although its population is smaller than that of Sweden, Burundi, and Bolivia, it is the most censured country in United Nations history.
He goes on with how much "respectable thought" and civilized nations condemn those pesky Jews.
And then we get to the facts:
Though Israel is a thriving liberal democracy for all its citizens — including the one citizen out of five who is Arab (83 percent of whom are Muslim) — and has an independent judiciary and an independent press, though it signed an agreement establishing an independent Palestinian state, and though it returned to Egypt every inch of the Sinai Peninsula, a land mass larger than Israel itself with major oil reserves, the world deems Israel a villain.
Though Hamas runs a theocratic police state based on torture and terror, though it recognizes no freedom of speech and no freedom for any religious expression outside of radical Islam, though it seeks to annihilate the Jewish state, and though its state-controlled media depict Israelis and Jews as worthy of death, the world sees Israel, not Hamas, as the villain.
And yet where is the blame? Which country are all the gadflies and internationalists and "human rights" people throwing their support behind?
It gets worse.
The reason mankind has to hope that the world, its leaders, its newspapers, its so-called human-rights organizations, and the United Nations are right about Israel is quite simple: If Israel is the decent party in its war with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and nearly all the world’s countries, nearly all the world’s media, and the United Nations are morally wrong, what hope is there for humanity? If the world’s moral compass is that broken, are we not sailing into a dark age?
This is why the view that we must make "the world" like us, and must earn the respect of the international community is not only deluded and optimistic, but it is dangerous.
The world is not a nice place, and those fools with stars in their eyes that confuse a theocratic totalitarian regime with a freeish-marketish representative-republic of limited governance....
But we've seen it before. The useful idiots of the world love their totalitarian thugs. Because they are envious of the power of the men who control the organs of state, the men without any checks or balances, the men that can get things done.
These are the people that see the blood soaked hands of a dictator and instead of thinking "Monster", think "Wow, he's certainly strong and willing to realize the dreams of his people."
Don't even get me started about the inherent legitimacy and possessive objectification that comes with saying "his people" when revering to the oppressed populace under the heel of a murderous thug.
That's why there is the worship of power and debasement before the "noble savage".
And that's why to some there is no greater sin than demanding to be left alone. There is no greater obstacle than limiting government. And there is no greater threat than a skeptical, informed, self reliant populace.
For more information on how the world works. I recommend James F. Dunnigan's and Austin Bay's work: "A Quick and Dirty Guide to War."
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