Witnesses for the defense of Israel

Ruth King
Mideast Outpost
20 July '10
Posted before Shabbat

It is a major understatement to say that Israel is condemned without trial in the court of international public opinion. I speak of Western nations whose media, academies and even legal institutions have been suffused by anti-Semitism fueled by an unholy alliance of leftists, Moslem immigrants and petrodollars contributed to their sagging economies by the Arabs.

Those who have defended Israel, who have abjured a weak-kneed “neutrality”, who appreciate Israel’s extraordinary history and legacy, who understand Israel’s dilemma in the face of the determined Islamic onslaught on her existence, who support Israel’s right to take up arms in its own defense are honorable people deserving celebration.

In this issue we include the refreshing mission statement of the “Friends of Israel” initiative undertaken by Jose Maria Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain.

Here we would like to feature an eclectic group which has independently taken up the cudgels for Israel.

Among journalists we single out Britain’s Melanie Phillips. In May 2010 in an interview with National Review editor Katherine Lopez, Phillips said: “The treatment of Israel by the left-wing Western intelligentsia is unique in its irrationality and moral and historical inversion. It takes a nation that is the historic victim of aggression and blames it for jeopardizing peace in the region and causing Islamic extremism worldwide—despite demonstrable evidence that this is simply untrue….It takes a nation that has been under exterminatory attack for six decades (nine, if you include the Palestine Mandate) and insists that it make compromises with its attackers, even as they continue to attack it. And if any Jews dare protest at the manifest injustice, lies, and bigotry in this unique delegitimization, they find themselves accused of ‘dual loyalty’ or being part of a covert global conspiracy to put the world at risk.”

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