These are, to put it mildly, worrisome times. The global economy is collapsing before our eyes, the core of Western civilization has rotted to the point that it can no longer stand erect, and the Middle East, that ancient cauldron of strife and woe, is about to boil over once again. The vile, snake-eyed Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad has just exuded another of his venomous orations at the United Nations; in it he as usual hurled foul imprecations at the United States and Israel, to loud applause.
Israel’s situation at this dark hour is particularly grim — grimmer, perhaps, than at any time in its history as a modern nation. Victor Davis Hanson offers a gloomy assessment here.