At the United Nations, it’s open season on Israel

"It is open season on Israel at the United Nations General Assembly. Nothing very new there.

The atmosphere, as we await Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address on Thursday, has already been set by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In a city once known as perhaps the most Jewish in the world, Mamdani has again declared that he considers Netanyahu a war criminal. It is a pity that U.S. President Donald Trump, standing beside him, did not respond.

But the prize for the most original falsehood goes to French President Emmanuel Macron, followed by the more familiar accusations from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, for whom the Oct. 7 massacre ‘did not happen in a vacuum.’...

Far from the speeches and accusations at the United Nations, and beyond the coming elections, the Middle East is being reshaped again.

Israel is not merely fighting for its own survival. It is seeking a real peace—one grounded in security, democracy and the rejection of terrorism—while standing on the front line of a struggle that concerns the entire free world.

The real question is whether that world understands that Israel’s fight is also its own."