2024-09-19 22:46:29
Israel’s bravery has exposed the lies at the heart of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s foreign policy.
This is the title of an article published by the British publication The Telegraph, which states that the battle Jerusalem is facing is not only about defending the Jewish state – it is a question of defending civilization itself.
Text of the publication:
Bereft of moral compass, unable to distinguish between good and evil, unable to distinguish heroes from villains, the West no longer celebrates the victory of good over evil.
Israel’s brilliant operation, which mined thousands of Hezbollah pagers and then detonated the terrorist group’s radios, was a resounding success for the forces of civilization around the world.
A small country of just 9.3 million people, 7.2 million of whom are Jews, Israel, which suffered the worst anti-Semitic pogroms since the Holocaust, is leading the war against barbarity, performing a task that would previously have been performed by a Western coalition in the role of world policeman.
The fact that many people in Britain, Europe and America, especially young people, no longer support Israel in its existential struggle is a sign of our cultural, intellectual and moral decline.
The Biden administration is obsessed with preventing “escalation,” when that is precisely what is needed to stop Iran from gaining the ability to start a nuclear World War III. Predictably, America, seemingly intent on preserving the existence of every regional terrorist group, looked upset by the successful attack on Hezbollah. David Lammy, our Foreign Secretary, argues that climate change is a greater threat than terrorism; in a rational world, Lammy would congratulate his Israeli counterparts on the most successful operation against a terrorist organization with minimal civilian casualties, and pledge to help the UK.
But Keir Starmer has turned his back on Israel by banning the sale of certain weapons – a policy that Germany also appears set to support – and has refused to oppose legal action against the Jewish state in an unforgivable moral reversal.
The Labour Party has placed Britain on the side of nihilists masquerading as human rights defenders who blur the line between victims and aggressors, between democracies seeking to minimise civilian casualties and bloodthirsty dictatorships for whom people are pawns to be sacrificed.
Hezbollah is financed and controlled by the Iranian regime, an obscurantist, fascist, millenarian tyranny that persecutes minorities, women, and dissidents. Violating human rights and planning war crimes is Hezbollah’s primary goal: its 150,000 rockets target civilian centers, and, like Hamas and Iran itself, it seeks the elimination of Israel, which ensures the massacre, expulsion, or enslavement of Jews. Since October 7, Hezbollah has forced some 63,473 Israelis to flee their homes. This situation cannot continue, and that is why a major Israeli response is inevitable; it is outrageous that it will provoke widespread condemnation of the Jewish state.
Western foreign policy is a mixture of cowardice, illusions and contradictions. Iran is a threat to peace; its alliance with Russia is deepening. Turkey, under the despot Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatens to invade Israel, yet remains part of NATO. Qatar, which shelters top Hamas terrorists in luxury hotels, is the US’s main non-NATO ally, hosts a key Western military base and is a major investor in London. Egypt, a recipient of American aid, has allowed tunnels into southern Gaza, refuses to allow Palestinians in and, absurdly, is not responsible for supplies to Gaza – that task falls to Israel. None of these regimes is subject to sanctions: the international ire is directed only at Israel.
One of the reasons Western elites have become so anti-Israel is that, infected with “woke” ideas, they increasingly hate the history and traditions of Europe and America, and see the Jewish state as a shining example of the Western model they reject.
Winston Churchill would be tried today for crimes against humanity, as would Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. The Normandy landings would be considered illegitimate because so many French civilians died during the Battle of Normandy.
Democracies shouldn’t even bother with nuclear weapons, because using them, even in response to an unjustified attack, would be a war crime. I’m all for stricter rules than those in place during World War II, and for doing everything possible to protect civilians, but this is madness.
Just war is a fundamental principle. States have the right to defend themselves. Every civilian casualty is a tragedy, but pacifism is a utopia that does not understand the reality of human nature. To label any war as criminal is madness, and to focus on wars waged by democracies while ignoring the actions of our enemies is cowardice.
It is also foolish to entrust so much power to legal activists. Many acts of anti-Semitism in the past have been legitimized through sham trials, including in the 1930s. The Talmud Trials took place in France in 1240, where rabbis were forced to defend their religious texts against false charges of blasphemy and obscenity.
Other manifestations of fanaticism disguised as ordinary trials include the Barcelona and Tortosa Disputes, the Dreyfus affair that inspired Emile Zola’s famous “J’accuse,” and the Mendel Beilis trial in Ukraine in 1913. It is a long-established pattern that has remained fashionable in far-left circles, no longer targeting specific religious beliefs or individuals, but using legal mechanisms to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state.
The fact that the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice have the appearance of legitimate legal forums does not mean that they embody justice. The fact that their decisions are considered legitimate in left-liberal circles does not automatically make them just. The fact that modern blood libels are dressed up in the language of “human rights” does not make them any less monstrous. That a country as unjustly governed as South Africa can lead the case for genocide against Israel proves that the entire system is rotten. This case is supported by Iran, the far-left president of Brazil, Ireland and Egypt: it seems that we have entered an alternate, Kafkaesque reality.
Israel is the ultimate embodiment of law-abiding national democratic sovereignty, the people, the combination of nation and state, post-imperialism, capitalism and technology, and the continued relevance of monotheistic religions. If Israel were destroyed, the very foundations of the West would be undermined, the international order would collapse, and autocracies would triumph.
So the stakes are extremely high. We must stand by Israel and allow it to complete the task of destroying Hamas and defeating Hezbollah.
Earlier, Cursor reported that Netanyahu sharply criticized British Prime Minister Starmer, saying that he and his government were “sending a terrible signal” to the terrorist group Hamas.