Maybe it’s the weariness of eight decades of fighting Arab terror constantly. As in, 24 hours a day.

Maybe it’s the last quarter-century of the West blaming Israel and giving the Palestinians a pass.

Whatever the reason, some Israeli leaders feel the need to publicly call on the Jewish state to maintain its moral standing.

I think what we’re seeing is a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

Recently, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has been compelled to make sure Israelis don’t lose their humanity when dealing with the Palestinians. Much of this stems from a recent incident in Hebron in which an IDF soldier killed a terrorist who had been subdued.

For what it’s worth, my own interaction with Israelis lets me know clearly that the IDF is the most moral army in the world. Israeli society is built in part on an almost total respect for others. Some of this comes from centuries of their own abuse at the hands of gentiles in countries where Jews found themselves. In other words, Jews are almost hyper-sensitive to being mindful of others.

While so many others are killing them.

A recent piece highlighted a growing divide among Israelis over these issues:

“’Over the past several months, Israel has been confronted with a wave of Palestinian terrorism, which indeed has been on a down-slide of late, but is liable to erupt anew,’ Ya’alon said to a massive crowd of mourners at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv. ‘Even during the difficult moments, in which our blood boils and our rage is high, woe to us if we lose our way and our values, the compromising of which would likely bring Israel to the abyss.’

“’Exercise force when necessary, but also understand its limits and its ability to lead to a dulling of the senses,; he continued. ‘Ensure the purity of arms and retain humanity, and let us not lose our heads.’”

The article went on to point to the case of the IDF soldier, and also pointed to two separate instances when Ya’alon has invoked Israeli morality:

“The first was when he promptly denounced Elor Azariya – the IDF soldier under indictment for killing a subdued Palestinian terrorist in Hebron – and members of the public who protested on his behalf. ‘We’re not ISIS,’ Ya’alon said, ‘When there’s a need to kill, we kill. But when it’s someone neutralized or with his hands up, that is the place for preserving our moral compass.’

“The second was on Holocaust Remembrance Day, when Ya’alon immediately and unequivocally backed IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan, who suggested that Israel is coming dangerously close to resembling 1930s Germany and called for an annual day of soul-searching, like some kind of secular version of Yom Kippur.”

What gives? The Arabs have been murdering Jews in the region for a century. Why is there a constant pressure on Israel? It’s like saying that the victims of the Manson Family fought back too hard.

Israeli writer Ruthie Blum takes issue with Ya’alon and others:

“The last time I checked, it was the job of the minister of defense to protect Israel’s citizenry from its mortal enemies, by developing and carrying out military strategies to defeat them. It is a mighty challenge on today’s battlefield in the Middle East, to be sure, because the warfare involves multiple fronts and various filthy methods of engagement. These include, but are not restricted to the use of children, both as human shields and as machete-wielding perpetrators of bloody murder.”

Thank you, Ruthie, for taking us back to the point. A profound lack of morals has infected the West, and I think this influences Israeli leaders.

Look, no one really knows (but them) just how much pressure the West, including and especially now the U.S., puts on Israel. Remember that Ariel Sharon was very deferential to the Americans while he was prime minister, and all Israeli PMs including Benjamin Netanyahu are pressured behind closed doors.

Over 24,000 Israelis have been killed by the Arabs since statehood in 1948.

That is the story.

The story isn’t that a lone nutcase once tried to set fire to the Dome of the Rock, or that in 1994 Baruch Goldstein killed Arabs in Hebron, or that the Israeli soldier killed a Palestinian who had been subdued after a terror attack.

The story is that Israel is held to a grotesque and immoral standard by the West and by the Arabs. The story is that a campaign of genocide was launched against the Jews long before Hitler came to power. The world is still condoning it by making demands on…Israel.

People like John Kerry will one day answer for their shabby treatment of the Jews. The truth is, today’s Western diplomats are little different from the European ones who threw the Jews under the Nazi bus in the ’30s and ‘40s.

Even now, the chickens have come home to roost, though, for when civilization tries to appease Islam by offering up Israel, trouble comes for them.

London has just elected a Muslim mayor. Europe will fall to the Islamists.

And then they won’t have the Jews to kick around anymore.

Reprinted with author’s permission from Rapture Ready