Should Have Been an Easy Vote

 

After the atrocities of October 7^th the governments of Germany, Britain, and other European countries denounced the terrorists and announced their support for Israel. Recently at the UN they had a chance to put a small part of their money where their mouths were in a vote in the general assembly on a resolution for an immediate cease fire, meaning a victory and no serious consequences for Hamas. It was an easy test to pass, but most of them and most of America’s other allies failed it. A few did not. Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and a few countries in Latin America and the Pacific joined the United States in voting no. Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan, Ukraine(!), Australia, Canada, Estonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Denmark, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, and Sweden could not work up the nerve to oppose the resolution, but at least avoided siding directly with the terrorists by abstaining. Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, and France threw in with Hamas. A cynic might think the commitment of some of our friends in Europe and elsewhere to defending the liberal, civilized order is less serious  than they would have us believe, except of course when their sorry  hides are the ones being threatened. That cynic would have a point.