The speech

It was as advertised: historic, thunderous, challenging.

I'm heartened by one kind of reaction to it and chilled by the other.

There was, of course, the anthemic applause.

On the other hand, there was the dark response of rabid haters on social media and the smart-ass barbs of MSM types.

Pelosi storms out and and other Congressional Freedom-Haters melt down, calling Bibi a "child" and bringing Dick Cheney into it, for some reason.

What the speech clinched for me was the assertion that several voices (Dennis Prager and David Mamet come to mind) have put forth, that one can tell where someone stands on valuing human freedom and dignity by where he or she stands on Israel.

The most menacing regime in the world has, for thirty-six years, singled out the middle east's only God-devoted, free and open representative democracy as the focus of its vitriol, and now, as Bibi tells us, the moment when, if those who understand that and hold it dear don't rise to the occasion, that free, open, pluralistic little country could be obliterated with the most fearsome means at humankind's disposal, is here.  And then Europe and America come in for the same extinction.

That that stark and simple message could anger or disgust anyone demonstrates for us how hearts are given over to darkness.  They are hearts that will persecute those who tell the truth about how the global climate is not in any trouble, about how there are only two genders, about how there is nothing lovely about our culture's artistic output anymore.

They are chasing after the biggest fantasy of them all: the delusion that evil is something other than evil, and that we don't have to respond with resolve and moral clarity to avoid the ruination it would wreak.

Bibi brought it all into sharp relief this morning.  If anyone is confused after his address, something not of the light in them deliberately wants to be confused.  And confused is the only word for it; they can't tell you what kind of world they would like to see as an alternative to the one in which we'll endure our final horror in if we are not clear.