Goliath, Unmasked
Saul Singer has a great piece in today’s Jerusalem Post. It’s about time to start seeing optimistic pieces explaining the obvious:
The war to destroy Israel has always been a war against the West. Since 9/11, it has become even clearer that the Islamist tolerance of non-Islamist power anywhere is no greater than its tolerance of a Jewish state. But now that Iran’s proxy army has attacked Israel and we are busy destroying that army, it is impossible to deny that two jihads are actually one.
How can an observation this dire actually be “optimistic?’ Because Singer believes that the obvious is now “impossible to deny.” I wish I could share his optimism, but I remain skeptical. It’s been impossible for decades for anyone even remotely interested in the facts to believe that the vitriol hurled against Israel was actually meant for the tiny Jewish state, rather than for the Western civilization to which it belonged. A world culture has developed, however, among Westerners completely impervious to factual argument. An entire academic industry called “Middle East Studies” has purged fact from its curriculum, views everything through the lens of ideology, and labels as “propaganda” what it cannot ignore. The public at large prefers to remain “evenhanded,” and to assume that both sides must bare equal blame in any conflict. After all, a serial rapist and his victims are all “involved” in the crimes. It would be unfair for us to attribute “blame” to only one of the parties so “involved.”
Singer seems to believe that the mere fact of having indisputable facts to the contrary beamed into living rooms around the world will suddenly make people impervious to facts internalize the facts. I hope he’s right. I have my doubts. After all, to the extent that that the United Nations stands for anything (a debatable proposition, but one that we can assume for the purposes of the next few sentences), it stands for the preservation of the State System. A clash between a non-state militia that has siezed control of territory of a member state to launch an attack on another member state should be a no-brainer that even the brain dead UN could handle. Instead, all that they see is “complexity.” Granted, it’s a step beyond their normal assumption that in any conflict, the more liberal government must be to blame, but it hardly shows much in the way of fact penetration.
As far as I can tell, the question remains open: How many in the West actually recognize that we are fighting a movement intent upon destroying our society and everything that we value, rather than just a disgruntled band of violent hotheads? Wake me up when the answer breaks 50%. I suspect that I’ve got a long wait ahead.
In the meantime, though, on the theory that a picture is worth a thousand words, here are a couple of thousand word-equivalents showing what we’re up against. The caption reads ”The Spirit of the IDF.”
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