A terrific column in the Jerusalem Post by Caroline Glick examines the insidious distortion of language, used by the far left and the Arab world to delegitimize the West and Israel, to portray aggressors as victims, crime and murder as “resistance,” and terrorists as “militants:” The war of words.

George Orwell once said: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

In the two years since the Durban conference, our political language has been distorted by an alliance of the international political Left and the Arab world to the point at which neither Israel nor the US can easily use words to either describe the reality we live in or to motivate others to join us in fighting our enemies.

After September 11, US President George W. Bush called on the nations of the world to join the US in destroying terrorism. Most nations came forward and expressed their support for his call. Yet when Saudi Arabia can claim to be fighting terrorism, even while it funds al-Qaida and Hamas, it is clear that we have reached a point at which we cannot even have a conversation about terrorism and expect our interlocutors to be talking about the same thing.

She concludes with a call to action that could serve very well as my mission statement for Little Green Footballs:

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men,” said Orwell, “is the restatement of the obvious.”

And so, two years after Durban, 10 years after Oslo, three years after the Palestinian terrorist war was launched, and two years after the September 11 attacks, we must take it upon ourselves to do just that. If we allow our enemies to define our world for us, we are destined to lose our place in it.

A must-read.