Had I not been a philosemite before….
… The speech by Prime Minister Netanyahu before the United Nations would have made me one.
Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come, and to those who left in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity, and you brought honor to your countries. But to those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere, have you no shame? Have you no decency? A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the state of Israel, the state of the Jews? What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations. Now perhaps, perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime, perhaps they threaten only the Jews. Well, if you think that, you’re wrong – dead wrong.
I contrast this moral clarity with what little I heard of Mr. Obama’s speech before that same body yesterday, ere I fled in disgust, holding my ears as I ran screaming, lest his words, like some verbal version of the image of Medusa, would turn me to stone, and freeze my face forever in a rictus of horror.
Mr. Obama, according to poling data, won 78% of the Jewish vote. That is extraordinary, considering how little this administration, the Democrat Party or the European elites from which this administration and the Democrat Party takes its cues, can bring itself to support Israel. The love and sympathy poured by the Left over every enemy of the Jewish race, from Stalin to Muslim Terrorists, give aid and comfort to deadly enemies who both deny and seek to replay the holocaust. Almost every instance of Jew-hatred I have seen in the last 20 years has issued from the Left, not from the Right, particularly from bodies like the U.N., which is notoriously and consistently antisemitic as well as being notoriously and consistently left-of-center in its policies and public statements.
Mr. Netanyahu, I salute you.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
