Re: “Nine activists dead in Israeli raid,” June 1.

The world is enraged at Israel for trying to defend itself. Wow, I’m shocked. This is a “dog bites man” story. With their customary intellectual laziness, the international media salivate over what is essentially business as usual, and miss the truly historic “man bites dog” elements here. Turkey is abandoning its Western secular orientation and joining the global jihadist and anti-Israeli axis. If Turkey’s army does not act soon to dislodge its Islamist government, we will have yet another brooding, brutal, well-armed theocratic Muslim dictatorship in the region — and a NATO member to boot! How awkward. Israel is no longer living in the vapid, amoral public-relations fog of the media and their precious “international community.” Israel’s struggle is no longer political, but purely existential, as it prepares for an all-out assault from Iran and its terrorist satraps, possibly this summer. Hezbollah, rearmed under the protection of the UN, now has more missiles and rockets than most countries. Syria and Iran, even more. Terrible events loom, and the media sit sucking their self-congratulatory thumbs. Oh well, all Israel’s fault anyway, and the headlines are already written.

Peter Enman,