Back in December, the eminent historian Niall Ferguson wrote an essay in The Free Press that, it's now apparent, presaged the tidal wave of demonstrations now inundating college campuses around the country.

It was called "The Treason of the Intellectuals" which also was the title of a 1927 publication by French philosopher Julien Benda. Mr. Ferguson noted that while that piece was written six years before Hitler came to power, German universities – then the world's best –already were transitioning from scholarship to "the intellectual organization of political hatreds."

German academia "did not just follow Hitler down the path to hell. It led the way,"

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I'm sure you've heard commentators describe the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel as "rivals" engaged in a "tit-for-tat" conflict. That misinterprets reality.

Ali Khamenei, Iran's "supreme leader" since 1989, seeks to establish a new Middle Eastern empire.

Israelis, by contrast, only want to survive as an independent nation within a slice of their ancient Jewish homeland.

They would like nothing better than to enjoy amicable relations with Iranians, as they did prior to Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979.

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One of the many ways last weekend's drone and missile attacks on Israel could have been worse: If Iran's rulers had instructed their U.S.-based operatives to simultaneously carry out a terrorist attack, and our intelligence agencies failed to learn about it.

Preventing such a catastrophe requires that those intelligence agencies have the ability and authority to surveil – think wiretap – terrorists abroad and their communications with operatives in the U.S.

Which gets me to a little good news: The House last week, on a bipartisan basis, took a step to ensure that we don't lose what may be our most important defensive weapon against terrorists eager to slaughter Americans on American soil.

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"Today, the people of Israel are under attack, orchestrated by a terrorist organization, Hamas." So said President Joseph R. Biden six months ago last Sunday.

He went on to speak of the "innocent people murdered, wounded, entire families taken hostage by Hamas."

He made clear that "the United States stands with Israel. We will not ever fail to have their back. ...My administration's support for Israel's security is rock solid and unwavering."

So, when did the rock start to crumble, and the wavering begin?

I'd say last month when Mr. Biden allowed a U.N. Security Council resolution backed by Moscow, Beijing, and 22 Arab states, to pass.

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In 1993, a massive truck bomb exploded at the World Trade Center, the first major international terrorist attack on American soil.

Five years later, two massive truck bombs struck two American embassies in East Africa. That was not long after Osama Bin Laden, in an interview in southern Afghanistan with reporter John Miller, vowed to continue waging jihad against the United States.

Two years after that a boat packed with explosives struck the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen.

Despite all this and more, it came as a terrible shock when, on September 11, 2001, al Qaeda operatives hijacked passenger jets and used them to murder nearly 3,000 Americans on American soil.

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