The reason the West is teetering is that its leaders—in politics, education, policing, business, the church—have chosen to go with the flow of civilizational decline, defeatism, and degradation pushed by a relatively small number of fanatical secular ideologues. Melanie Phillips

Liberal universalists similarly tell an upside-down story about Israel, trashing it as a rogue state breaking international law and willfully killing the innocent in a spirit of revenge. In fact, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, deeply committed to protecting life and liberty and upholding international law, and motivated in war only to defend the innocent against evil and the nation against annihilation. Melanie Phillips