There is an old, unsettling story about a blind woman who promises to marry her lover only if she regains her sight. When surgery finally restores her vision, she looks at him for the first time and immediately rejects him because he, too, is blind. Days later, he leaves her a final note: “Cherish your eyes, my love, for they were mine before they were yours.” The story is cruel, but its lesson is unmistakable: the deepest moral failure is not blindness itself, but the refusal to see once sight is possible.

That is the tragedy of our world in miniature. A person is given an extraordinary gift and still fails to recognize the sacrifice behind it. She has eyes, but she does not see. That same moral failure now defines much of the world’s treatment of Israel: an international chorus that speaks in the name of conscience while refusing to meet the Jewish state with honesty, consistency, or fairness.

Israel is routinely condemned by people who present themselves as guardians of morality while ignoring the reality of a democratic nation under existential attack. They speak of Zionism as though it were a crime, while erasing the truth that it is the Jewish people’s indigenous movement for self-determination after exile, persecution, and industrialized slaughter. They accuse Jews of brutality while ignoring the openly genocidal intent of terrorist movements and regimes that celebrate Jewish death. In doing so, they repeat the blindness of the woman in the story: they see only what they want to see, and they call that righteousness.

This is not honest........

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