If you believe the enemies of the free world, Israel is guilty of the worst crimes against humanity.  Governments, international organizations, NGOs, academics, and student activists condemn its post-October 7th actions against Islamic terrorists.  Leftist media makes the only democracy in the Middle East seem worse than communist China.

Consider only a few of China’s numerous atrocities that Western governments, international bodies, and mainstream media overlook:

Despite its long history of violation of sovereignty, occupation, transnational repression, and flagrant human rights abuse, China has not been the target of investigations by the U.N. or the ICC, nor of protests by students, academicians, and activist groups.  The U.S. and U.K. governments and the European Union pretend the communist regime in China is benign.  Even the overwhelming circumstantial and scientific evidence that convinced leading scientists of China deliberately creating the COVID-19 virus was not enough.  The WHO team that visited the Wuhan virology lab cleared China of foul play.

Contrast that with the reaction to Israel’s righteous defense of its territory and its citizens after the savage jihadi attack on October 7, 2023, in which more than 1,200 civilians were killed and 240 hostages were taken.

The slaughter and hostage-taking were led by Hamas, with support from Iran and Qatar.  Three in four Palestinian Arabs lauded the attack.  The very next day, Iranian proxy Hezbollah began firing toward Israel, displacing tens of thousands of people in the north.  In November, Houthi rebels began launching drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea to pressure Israel to end its defensive war against Hamas.  On April 14th, after Israelis took out Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) troops hiding in an Iranian consulate in Damascus, Iran launched more than 300 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles toward Israel.  However, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) managed to thwart them.

The IDF retaliation has been calibrated and pinpointed to minimize collateral damage.  Richard Kemp, a British colonel with 30 years’ experience commanding an infantry battalion, refers to the IDF as the most moral army in the world, doing “more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.” The IDF works against tremendous odds, for Hamas routinely uses citizens as shields, hospitals, and residential areas as strongholds and arms depots, and reports the death of its fighters as civilian casualties.

But from day one, Israel has only been vilified.  The roster of calumnies heaped upon it runs long.  Even when it is crystal clear that slogans of “from the river to the sea” refer to a yearning for its annihilation.  Here is what it faces as it defends itself.

Unlike China, the most dangerous and autocratic power in the world today, Israel is on the frontlines of the fight for Western civilization.  Her enemies are the enemies of the free world.

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