While the West is losing its moral compass, Israel alone takes a stand to fight against evil, writes Giulio Meotti:
The West is atoning uninterruptedly, infected by the idea that evil can come only from its own ranks, while the rest of the world is motivated by sympathy, kindness, and purity. . . . Europe stopped fighting [for its values] a long time ago. . . . Writers and intellectuals are mute, as if they have lost the ability to say the truth.
There is only one nation on earth fighting evil and giving a meaning to the word “civilization”—not good manners, but a hierarchy of values. That nation is the Jewish state of Israel. This is one of the last bastions of humanity. You see this not only in Israel’s willingness to fight just wars against people who bring only destruction and pain in this world. You see it in Israel through the intensity of its people’s devotion to a higher meaning. Only Israel today offers some hope for mankind, something that can enable us to maintain faith in human values under an unprecedented moral collapse.
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