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Yes, Mr. Blair, look down–it is difficult to look people in the eye when your dignity and courage have moved to the gutter.

But we shouldn’t be surprised, should we? This is a world, after all, that proves time and time again that they think nothing is worth fighting for. Take France for example. Well, just take France. Here’s Jack’s response to Israel having had enough:

US, major allies differ in response to Israeli attack

French President Jacques Chirac questioned whether Israel was seeking Lebanon’s destruction. “One may well ask if there isn’t today a kind of wish to destroy Lebanon — its infrastructure, its roads, its communications, its energy, its airport. And for what?

“I find honestly — as all Europeans do — that the current reactions are totally disproportionate,” he said in a live television interview on France’s national Bastille Day.

Not surprising from a nation which has proven its preference to do nothing in the face of evil. Hitler. Saddam. Vichy. We’re impressed.

And this from Spain, the new standard-bearer of How to Surrender to Terrorists As Quickly As Possible When They Bomb You:

“In my view, Israel is making a mistake,” said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. “It will only lead to an escalation of the violence.”

This comment is especially important as it furthers the ‘moral equivalency’ argument pushed by leftists around the world. By referring to an “escalation of the violence” he’s saying that Israel’s defense response to being attacked and their search for kidnapped soldiers is the ‘moral equivalent’ to the terrorist attacks which caused the need for Israel to respond in the first place. To him, the two are morally the same. This is rank nihilistic moral relativism and explains in great part why terrorists around the world still believe the terror tactic will work–because it has against countries like Spain, which drown in their own indistinct and cowardly muck.

But it doesn’t stop there. Consider this absolutely obscene moral relativism spewing from the mouth of Britain’s Tony Blair:

British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for restraint on all sides but kept closer to the US line.

“I totally understand the desire and the need for Israel to defend itself properly and I also understand the plight of Lebanon and the Lebanese government, not to say the many Palestinians that are suffering as well,” Blair said in London.

That’s just lovely. Yes, let’s mention the “plight” of the Lebanese, who voted Hezbollah terrorists into their parliament. And let’s discuss so-called “Palestinian suffering.” They, too, should have thought about that pesky ‘suffering’ potential before they elected terrorists to head their government. That act is called Bringing on the Suffering Yourself. And perhaps Mr. Blair hasn’t seen this recent poll, which explains what exactly those so-called suffering Palestinians think of terrorism, the kidnapping of soldiers and the actions of their terrorist leaders.

I can hear the world now– “Jews die every day, and have been killed for thousands of years, so what’s the big deal anyway? Israel goes on a rampage, ‘And for what?’ A few Jewish soldiers? Bah!”

In a world that looked away when 6 million were murdered, I’m sure it is inexplicable to them that anyone would care about two or three missing Jews. Which is exactly why Israel deserves to exist, should exist, and needs to exist. The world’s reaction to Israel’s defense response is also proof that she needs and deserves unmitigated support– Because Jew-hatred is alive and well, and the rest of the world is as depraved as it was in the last century.

And then there is the Vatican.

It’s funny how the Vatican shoots out of the gate with a sweeping condemnation of Israel’s attack on Lebanon in defense of itself, and yet it said nothing after Islamist terrorist group Hamas murdered Israeli soldiers and kidnapped Shalit.

Vatican condemns Israel for attacks on Lebanon

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano said Pope Benedict and his aides were very worried that the developments in the Middle East risked degenerating into “a conflict with international repercussions.”

“In particular, the Holy See deplores right now the attack on Lebanon, a free and sovereign nation, and assures its closeness to these people who already have suffered so much to defend their independence,” he told Vatican Radio.

This is especially interesting. Israel has been at war with terrorists for decades, but the world has managed to make it just Israel’s problem, or at least we thought so. The Vatican now seems more worried that the Islamist cancer Jews have been fighting forever now might overflow into the international arena. Newsflash for the Vatican–It already has and it’s called worldwide Islamist terrorism.

And last time I checked, Your Holiness, Israel was the ‘free and sovereign nation’ that was invaded by that other ‘free and sovereign nation’ which then murdered some of its soldiers and took two others hostage. Why is your statement of concern not based in that unprovoked attack on a people who have also ‘suffered so much to defend their independence’?

Oh yeah, I forgot, they’re Jews. At this stage, with the situation being so ridiculously obvious, what else is a reasonable person to think?

No longer does the world dare look away because it’s “only” Jews being attacked. No longer can they care only when it might hurt “us.” We can assess the condition of humanity based on how humanity treats the Jewish community.

Right now, ranging from Europe to the Vatican, humanity should be ashamed of itself.