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Jul 08, 2025
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Desides the insults reservered for Greta Thunberg, Zohran Mamdani and Tucker Carlson, Bret Stephens in not a man of wit nor sensibility!
Editor: I’ll begin my comentary at this point in Stephens commentary. It can’t escape its authors singular motive, propganda!
On Israel’s side, diplomatic flexibility has three authors. The first is the Israeli public’s understandable exhaustion with 21 months of fighting. The second is pressure from Trump to reach a deal — and Netanyahu’s eagerness to please him.
But neither factor would have been sufficient if Israel hadn’t achieved its military success over Iran, crowned, from an Israeli point of view, by America’s participation in the campaign.
At a stroke, Israel humiliated its most formidable adversary (and Hamas’s principal patron), demonstrating not only its capacity but also its courage to take on the mullahs directly and survive their reprisals intact. It advertised its capabilities to Saudi Arabia, which may now be more amenable to joining the Abraham Accords — not out of a softhearted desire for peace but out of a hardheaded interest in cementing military, economic and technological ties with the Jewish state. It created at least the possibility that Iran might choose to forgo its nuclear ambitions out of fear of seeing them destroyed again. And its victory gave Netanyahu the upper hand over his far-right coalition partners, allowing him to sign a deal that probably wouldn’t cause his government to collapse.
Critics of Israeli policy have argued that the cost of its military victories lies in its isolation on the world stage or in the contempt in which it is held by people like Zohran Mamdani and Tucker Carlson. There’s also no doubt that hatred of Israel has done much to contribute to growing antisemitism, although it’s equally true that antisemitism lies at the root of much of the hatred of Israel.
Then again, Israel doesn’t exist to placate the feelings of its detractors and defamers. It exists to protect Jewish life and uphold Jewish dignity in a world too intent on destroying both. If diplomacy now has a chance of succeeding, it’s because in geopolitics, as in life, it pays to be a winner.
Editor : The Reader must never forget that in the imagination of Mr. Stephens, Zionism and Juadism are a political and moral singularity! Or that Stephens in a child of hight privelidge: Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, University of Chicago and comparative politics at the London School of Economics. Nor can it escape the attention of the reader that he worked for the The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times? The reader might ask at what moment does Stephens confront the stark reality of the Gaza Genocide, as historical moral fact?
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