Israel Under Siege

The Goldstone Inquiry into Israel's conduct in Gaza reached its predictable and predetermined outcome with Israel cast as aggressor, lawbreaker, and international villain. Israel restrained herself in the case of provocation by constant rocket attack that no other nation would put up with and when she finally acted, Israel demonstrated a more judicious use of force than America has shown in Iraq or Afghanistan, in spite of the fact that Hamas systematically and deliberately used their own civilian population as human shields, making civilian casualties inevitable and Hamas, not Israel, culpable. South African Judge Richard Goldstone was selected by the UN to give his forgone conclusion precisely because he is Jewish, just as the anti-Semites orchestrating the execution of the Rosenbergs selected a Jewish judge and prosecutor to give the chimera of objectivity and avoid being labeled anti-Semites in the wake of revelations about the annihilation of Europe's Jews in the Holocaust. So a Jewish judge is once again empowered to give the sheen of respectability to a lynching and multilateral organizations and an international court regime that were created largely to ensure that the Shoah never again be repeated are turned against the Jewish state at the time of her greatest need with an American leader in Obama determined to do nothing to substantively protect the Jewish state from undeserved international opprobrium or physical destruction from Iran. How could the US president who does not recognize the sanctity of American borders, who will not defend America's sovereignty, and who is a committed internationalist, in favor of multilateralism to his own country's detriment (willing to abdicate strategic decisions to international bodies and trusting in the utterly politicized International Criminal Court), be expected to do anything else? Obama will not stand for America's security, so surely Israel can not rely on Obama to stand for hers. Israel is at her greatest peril, treated as a pariah by much of the world and left to face Iran alone. Let all decent people, Jewish and Gentile, and especially America's evangelicals who still still wield so much clout, rally to speak for beleaguered Israel at this, the time of her greatest need.