Israel and the Liberal World Order

Dear Editors, The op-ed by Robert Kagan, “Israel and the decline of the liberal order” (September 15th) disparaged Israel as “illiberal” without basis in fact. Mr. Kagan claimed that in recent years Israel committed “a remarkable turnabout” by “turning away” from the “liberal world order.”  His oft-repeated word “liberal” implicitly referred to human rights. In…