Forgive me if I sound cynical. It feels as though the world around us is coming apart. Violent anti-Israel marches continue to sweep across Europe, identity politics metastasises into open hatred, and global powers continue buying advanced weapons in a frenzy — Saudi Arabia’s pursuit of F-35s being the latest emblem of a deeper crisis.

Why?
What exactly is everyone so afraid of?

Historian Yuval Noah Harari warns that humanity is drifting into an age of fortresses — nations retreating behind walls, stockpiling weapons, and building armies instead of ideas. The metaphor is painfully accurate. In a century where our true existential threats are climate collapse, water scarcity, AI disruption, cyber instability, food insecurity, and economic fragmentation, the world responds not with unity but with fear.

And fear, tragically, is profitable.

Fear fuels weapons.
Weapons fuel conflict.
Conflict fuels narrative.
Narrative fuels identity.

We are living in a world where war is big business — and business is booming.

The Arms Race Nobody Wants — But Everyone Buys

The global defense industry thrives not on peace but on the possibility of war.
Each geopolitical tension point becomes a pipeline of revenue:

Every drone strike, every border clash, every military parade is a sales pitch.

Nations buy F-35s not because war is certain, but because unpreparedness is unthinkable. Fear drives procurement. Procurement drives escalation. Escalation fuels yet more fear.

A perfect, self-perpetuating loop.

And into this global theatre steps the Pope — smiling for photographs with Erdoğan, avoiding any mention of Turkey’s role in fueling Hamas, exporting jihadism, destabilizing Syria, or persecuting minorities. He then continues to Lebanon, a nation whose Christian population once exceeded 50% but now hovers around 32%, hollowed out by decades of war, emigration, Hezbollah’s armed domination, and Iran’s shadow. Yet the Pope avoids naming the very force suffocating Lebanon, including Christians: Hezbollah, which is continuing its long-term religious jihad war on Israel.

He could have visited Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan, or other places where Christians are actually being slaughtered.
Instead, he offers moral theater — soft words, photo-ops, and diplomatic neutrality — while calling for a “two-state solution” built atop historical distortion, geopolitical naïveté, and moral blindness.

Selective outrage has become the West’s most reliable currency.

The Continued War on Israel — Played Out on the World Stage

If anyone doubts the world’s war on Israel, this week’s UN General Assembly vote should end the debate.

A resolution submitted by Egypt “demands once more that Israel withdraw from all the occupied Syrian Golan,” calling Israel’s presence “a stumbling block” to peace.

It passed with:

Nothing about reality.
Just one target: Israel.

This is not diplomacy.
This is an ideological war fought through resolutions.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah re-arms openly, and the world pretends........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)