"This time, as on earlier occasions of wars involving Israel and its neighbours, many in the West view both parties to the conflict through the lens of moral equivalence.

The view that Israel and its enemies are essentially morally equivalent overlooks one crucial fact, above all.

Of all the different peoples in the Middle East, Israelis, alone, live permanently under threat for their very existence as a people.

Arab and Muslim leaders and activists from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are notoriously fractious and warring.

But time and again, they have been brought to unity on a single point. The need to crush, defeat and, if possible, obliterate Israel."

parrt of an article from here.