The international response to Israel’s defensive actions against terrorism is disturbingly familiar, and it is galvanizing the Israeli public against making further compromises to their security for the sake of peace.

Each iteration of this experience feels like déjà vu all over again, driving yet another nail into the coffin of Israeli/Palestinian peace as global condemnation of Israel becomes increasingly disconnected from realistic expectations of how a sovereign nation should handle terrorist rockets raining down on its cities.

With no better solution to offer Israel for the protection of its population, international opinion becomes increasingly irrelevant to Israel’s government and alienates moderate Israelis who would support political and territorial concessions to the Palestinians – but not at the cost of their personal safety.

The latest moral outrage over Israel is that its actions are “disproportionate.” The exact number of dead Israeli children required to justify Israel’s self-defense has yet to be clearly spelled out. Never mind that in Kosovo, NATO killed around 500 civilians while not a single member of NATO’s forces was killed in combat. Never mind that the coalition against Iraq killed over 100,000 civilians, in Afghanistan over 20,000, while “only” a few thousand coalition casualties were recorded.

That the Gaza war, one of many raging in the world today, has yielded one of the lowest rates of civilian casualties, and showcased some of the most valiant efforts in the history of modern warfare to protect the other side’s innocents, seems to matter not one whit to Israel’s critics.

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