New polls confirm that the Israeli public—most of whom are not fools—have come to the conclusion that Israel, though perhaps not losing the latest Gaza War, certainly has not won it. Now comes the next phase in “the long war” with a shift to diplomacy and lawfare. The odds here are really stacked against the Jewish state. If one equates the UN General Assembly with an anti-Israel kangaroo court, the only characterization for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva is that it is a lynch mob operating under the fig leave of international law. Whether Israel will present its case—or again boycott this uber-biased forum—remains an open question. The anti-Israel global alliance extends from Malaysia, where Hamas fighters may have trained, to Russia, which hypocritically condemns Jerusalem while raping Ukraine, to Iran, which provides Hamas with most of its missiles smuggled across the Sinai and from Sudan. Beyond the old world, it encompasses Nicaragua, where President Daniel Ortega (whose enduring contribution to revolutionary chic was $3,000 designer sunglasses) calls Netanyahu “a demon,” to Cuba where geriatric despot Fidel pontificates about “the Gaza Holocaust,” to Brazil where a regime that couldn’t manage the World Cup on or off the field lectures Israel on how to fight its war of survival. If you like, you can add other minor homes of Salsa and pseudo-equality such as Venezuela and Bolivia. As to the United States, would anyone want to share a foxhole with the Obama Administration, or turn his back on blogger Andrew Sullivan who continues to promulgate the Big Lie that Hamas did not kidnap and kill three Israeli teenagers, triggering the whole Gaza mess? This Gaza War has provided some moral clarity. First and foremost, in terms of existential reality, there is only one difference among critics of Israel: some are honest enough to admit that they want to destroy it; others are hypocrites who hide the same purpose. Let us hope that, at least in Israel, this War will politically marginalize forever the appeasement-at-any-price-camp. Postcript: For more on Latin America’s putsch against Israel, see the “National Review” at http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384788/latin-america-faces-israel-ian-tuttle and “Jerusalem Post” at http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Ecuadorian-President-cancels-trip-to-Israel-370310 I would argue the reasons for this ugly Latin brew are a combination of traditional Catholic anti-Semitism, trendy mostly Catholic “Liberation Theology,” Che Guevera-style anarcho-Marxism which of course is also virulently anti-American.