Life in Orwellian Times

Charles Krauthammer lays it out best in a recent column.

"What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?


What other country sustains 1,500 indiscriminate rocket attacks into its cities — every one designed to kill, maim and terrorize civilians — and is then vilified by the world when it tries to destroy the enemy's infrastructure and strongholds with precision-guided munitions that sometimes have the unintended but unavoidable consequence of collateral civilian death and suffering?


Hearing the world pass judgment on the Israel-Hezbollah war as it unfolds is to live in an Orwellian moral universe. With a few significant exceptions (the leadership of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and a very few others), the world — governments, the media, U.N. bureaucrats — has completely lost its moral bearings."

THE WORLD CONDEMNS ISRAEL FOR ACTING IN THE EXACT SAME WAY ANY SOVEREIGN NATION WOULD REACT IF IT WERE ATTACKED BY A TERRORIST ENTITY.

This shows the immense double-standard that the world has when it comes to Israel. As in one standard for everyone else, and an IMPOSSIBLE one for the Israelis.

Sickening.

Link: Charles Krauthammer