When Israel Won’t Give in, the World’s Enraged

Jennifer Rubin
Contentions/Commentary
04 June '10
Posted before Shabbat

In the shrieks from the international community — revealing once again what a bad idea it is to pursue popularity as a foreign policy – Charles Krauthammer decodes the real message:

The whole point of this relentless international campaign is to deprive Israel of any legitimate form of self-defense. Why, just last week, the Obama administration joined the jackals and reversed four decades of U.S. practice, by signing onto a consensus document that singles out Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons — thus de-legitimizing Israel’s very last line of defense: deterrence. The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million — that number again — hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists — Iranian in particular — openly prepare a more final solution.

On one side are, as Krauthammer describes, “the blockade-busting flotilla of useful idiots and terror sympathizers, by the Turkish front organization that funded it, by the automatic anti-Israel Third World chorus at the United Nations, and by the supine Europeans who’ve had quite enough of the Jewish problem.” On the other is Israel and an iffy U.S. ally with a more energetic Jewish community than we’ve seen in recent years. There is very little cause for optimism.

This is the natural result of the administration’s choices and grievous errors. Obama telegraphed that America would stand apart from Israel, and Israel’s enemies have exploited that. Obama telegraphed that he was not out to confront or upend the Iranian regime, and now the regime runs rampant, bolstered by new allies and with old ones more eager to line up with the Iranian axis than with the U.S.

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