Netanyahu is Tragically Right – the World Fails to Protect the Weak
SETH FRANTZMAN
Jerusalem Post
SEPTEMBER 02, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was excoriated over the weekend on social media for giving a speech in which he extolled the tragic reality of the world. “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive.†This is “fascism†people shouted on social media.
“It left me speechless,†tweeted Julia Ioffe. His comments echo Hitler, claimed one article. Former US Ambassador to NATO, Ivo Daalder claimed Netanyahu was channeling the Athenian maxim from Thucydides “the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.†But the Athenians lost the Peloponnesian war Daalder wrote. He forgot to add who they lost it to. Sparta. A city-state that was obsessed with being strong even more than the Athenians were.
For all of those who are outraged about Netanyahu’s statement, I have a question. Where were they in August 2014 when Islamic State launched its attack on the weak, peaceful, defenseless and vulnerable Yazidis in northern Iraq? When ISIS overran their villages and separated men and women, and then systematically machine-gunned the men into mass graves like the Einsatzgruppen did in 1941, where were they? Did they go to Sinjar to help in the fight against ISIS? The wealthy and the strong from the West who are today outraged and offended, were they there to help in the defense of Sinjar? And what have they done since for the 6,000 women and children kidnapped and sold into slavery? For four years now, more than 3,000 women are still missing, enslaved in the years 2014-2018.
Read more at: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Netanyahu-is-tragically-right-the-world-fails-to-protect-the-weak-566344
Reiterating, this link should work:
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Netanyahu-is-tragically-right-the-world-fails-to-protect-the-weak-566344Also, perhaps one can find it at the Middle East Forum:
https://www.meforum.orgA very thoughtful articulate piece.
