Mick Hartley

Alan Johnson, in praise of Bibi Netanyahu:

Almost single-handedly among world leaders, Netanyahu dragged the international community to a position of moral clarity on Iran. And now he faced his biggest challenge yet: keeping it there. Biggest because the West is tired: tired of moral clarity and the demands it places on us, tired of taking on terrorism, and tired of the burden of global leadership. The kind of leadership Netanyahu offers the West (from Bangalore to Boston to Beersheba) is not wanted. The burdens he asks us to take upon our shoulders seem too great to us, the seriousness with which he asks us to consider ourselves and our adversaries is just too demanding.