Why the West must back Syria's Bashar al-Assad

I had a nasty shock when I switched on my TV on Sunday. It was clearly a propaganda film with hijabed women standing amidst the rubble of their former homes extolling Hezbollah’s victory over the invading forces of Israel. Except it wasn’t a propaganda film; it was a BBC news report from Lebanon highlighting the plight of the de-housed Hezbollah-supporting Lebanese.

Of course, there was no report on the 60,000 Israelis who are still too frightened to return to their homes in northern Israel. They have good reason. Over the weekend, Hezbollah troops broke the ceasefire agreement and fired rockets into northern Israel. However, the anti-Israel bias of the BBC and western liberal media is a well understood fact of life. They support the perceived underdogs, Hamas and Hezbollah. This is a moral perversion of the facts of course. Israel, not Hamas and Hezbollah, is the real underdog in its war against Iran’s powerful Mullahs and their regional allies.