The West Should See Israel as a Blessing, Not a Curse

Oct 8, 2024 by

By Mick Hume, European Conservative.

The only democracy in the Middle East has shown that you can win against the odds if you fight for what you believe in.

October 7th 2023 was a dark day for the Jewish people and all who believe in humanity. Not only did Hamas stage a bloody pogrom in Israel, but the Islamists’ useful idiots around the world—including in Western capitals—celebrated the antisemitic massacres as a blow for ‘liberation.’

It seemed to many that Israel, apparently caught unaware and unprepared, had suffered an historic defeat. Even those of us who immediately saw the war between Israel and Hamas as an existential struggle between “civilisation and barbarism” could not be certain if the forces of enlightenment would prevail over the darkness.

Yet a year of bitter fighting later, the loud and clear message from Israel to the world is: let there be light! The Israelis are winning the war against Hamas in Gaza and striking mortal blows against Hezbollah in Lebanon. They have rocked the terrorists’ sponsor, the tyrannical Islamic Republic of Iran, to its roots.

It should now be clear to all who care about Western civilisation that the fighting state of Israel, the sole democracy in the Middle East, deserves our full-throated support. And I don’t mean the sort of begrudging ‘I support Israel’s right to defend itself, But…’ equivocation we have heard far too often from our rulers.

Instead we should embrace the Israelis as an example of what is possible if you fight for your principles—a source of inspiration, a leading light showing the way in the struggle to turn back the darkness.

But while the war in the Middle East—though far from won—is going well, the Israelis are still effectively losing the political battle in the West and around the world. The United Nations has abandoned them, and even their traditional Western allies are fighting shy, telling them to calm down, not make trouble, demanding a ceasefire, aka surrender.

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