Blind International Justice

By: Mr. Curmudgeon
mrcurmudgeon@inthepublicsquare.com

Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s conservative Likud Party, maintains a military barring he developed during his 5 years as a captain in the Israeli Defense Force. His serious and penetrating gaze is that of a man who will not go down without a fight.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the soon-to-be Israeli Prime Minister told the gathering that, though bad, our global economic turmoil will quiet and then reverse:

“What is not reversible is the acquisition of nuclear weapons by a fanatic radical regime ... We have never had, since the dawn of the nuclear age, nuclear weapons in the hands of such a fanatical regime.”

By fanatical regime, he means the mother of all fanatical regimes, Iran. Netanyahu reminded conference attendees that Israel has fought bloody engagements with Iranian-backed Hamas in Gaza and Southern Lebanon for years, and that the only way to diminish Middle Eastern terror is to cut-off the head of the snake:

“I think we are going to have to deal with neutralizing the power of the mother regime. The Hamas stronghold would be about as important, if Iranian power was neutralized, as Cuba was when the Soviet Union became irrelevant.”

Like Churchill, his nation standing alone before the threat of Nazi Germany, Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel stand increasingly alone against an Islamic tyranny a feckless world refuses to acknowledge. The United Nations and the European Union regard Israel as a pariah, insisting she adopt accommodationist policies that will finish what Hitler’s Holocaust began. If, as President Obama pledged during his campaign, the United States parleys unconditionally with Iran’s Mullahs, Israel’s political isolation will be complete. Is it any wonder the Israeli electorate is poised to abandon the delusionary policy of “land for peace,” coupled with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, and return a Churchillian leader to power?

Netanyahu words will fail to move the hardened-hearts of a feeble international community:

“But all of this will fall by the wayside if the world fails to stop Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons. It was and remains the greatest challenge facing the leaders of the 21st century at the beginning of the 21st century.”

On the same day Netanyahu deliverd his speech, Spain’s National Court ruled to allow a “war crimes” inquiry into Israel’s killing of Salah Shehade. Shehade, with Iranian backing, helped found the terrorist group Hamas and later commanded its military wing. In July 2002, an Israeli F-16 jet dropped a one-tone bomb on the apartment complex housing the terrorist leader. Fifteen people, including Shehade, his wife, daughter and bodyguard died and 150 were wounded.

Spanish Judge Fernando Andreu said in his ruling, “The main target of the attack was the house of Salah Shehadeh, who was suspected to be a Hamas commander, thus the aim of the mission was to assassinate him. Shehadeh's house was located in a residential area with one of the highest population densities in the world.”

The war criminals of Hamas compund their terrorist atrocities by inviting military retaliation, bringing death to the Palestinian civilians they cower behind. Judge Andreu, like the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, trivialize global terrorism by defining it as a mere criminal offense requiring the careful collection of evidence before nonexistent “legal” action is taken. In the eyes of our nihilistic world, terrorist butchers are reduced to “suspects,” while those who combat them are elevated to “war criminals.” In reality, blind international justice has entered into an unholy alliance with terror's death merchants in their relentless war against God’s moral order and the dwindling few who struggle to defend it.

--Mr. Curmudgeon