Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“Israel dominates the daily news in this 2026 midterm election year—almost always in a boring, fatiguing, negative light. Tens of thousands of innocents may be slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, butchered, and tortured by the world’s dictators, yet an overwhelming and obsessive abhorrence is reserved for tiny, democratic Israel. Such perverse asymmetry is strange, since, at least privately, most Americans would concede that of the 18 Middle Eastern nations, only Israel is a genuine consensual democracy.” [editor’s note: Well, except for the political parties that are banned, and except for the millions who live under Israeli rule, but don’t get to vote in Israeli elections. You know, little stuff like that – TLK] (08/18/26)