How the West came to this suicidal stage

At the conclusion of Dennis Prager's Townhall column today, entitled "The Jewish State in a Morally Sick World," he lists, bullet-point-style, the reasons why Israel has so few friends at this moment of peril:

1. The West has lost its way. Europe gave up on its values after World War I. And the American left, which dominates the media, gave up on America's distinctive values after the Vietnam War.

2. Unlike during World War II, there is a United Nations today, and it is dominated by over 50 Islamic countries, their dozens of allies, and a Security Council on which sit Russia and China as permanent members.

3. The current American president is a product of the postwar leftist morality. Wherever the left is in power, Israel is unpopular at best and loathed at worst. Thus, Israel's best friend today is the conservative government of Canada.

4. The world's news media relentlessly show images of wounded and dead Gazans. Israel, on the other hand, though the target of mass-killing missiles, has thus far been able to avoid such casualties.

5. Israel is Jewish.

If you say you are ambivalent about where we are, that you're not interested in taking sides, you are a party to our civilization's destruction.