Just recently I wrote extensively about the "forked-tongue" paradox – a situation where governments mouth the words of democracy – rights, freedoms, law and order, representation – as if repetition alone could make them true, yet their actions betray them. Strip away the slogans, and you find the blunt apparatus of power, loyal only to its own survival.
There's another equally concerning paradox at the core of Western society — one so grotesque that it defies reason yet thrives in plain sight. The “blood libel” accusation, once a mediaeval slander used to justify pogroms against Jews, has been inverted into an unassailable shield for the modern State of Israel. The result? A moral immunity card — in effect the ultimate “get out of jail” free pass — enabling ever more brazen depravity while Western leaders and their stenographers in the media look away, soften their language, or rationalise the unspeakable.