(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - These days Israel faces a two-pronged attack - from radical Islamists and from Western intellectuals. One's weapon of choice is violence, the other's propaganda. Their aim, though, is the same: to wound, possibly fatally, the world's only Jewish nation. The Israelophobic influencers of the West pump out report after report on how criminal Israel is. The coming battle for Gaza City will give the lie to the claim that Israel is carrying out a genocide. Israel has delayed its move so that civilians can flee Gaza City for safer zones - odd behavior for a "murderous" state hell-bent on erasing the Palestinian people. This is a war between the army of a democratic state and the army of an aspiring caliphate. Israel should win in Gaza City. But that other flank, the one overrun by Westerners so suspicious of our civilization that they find greater common cause with its enemies - that will be a harder fight.
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