(Telegraph-UK) Nile Gardiner - As Hamas rockets rain down on Israel, even striking Tel Aviv and threatening Jerusalem, Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to the UN in September rings true. This is a confrontation between the freest country in the Middle East, and brutal terrorists blinded with hatred who seek to advance their goals by murdering civilians and indiscriminate terror. The thugs of Hamas share the same goal as the mullahs in Tehran, who provide the bombs, weapons and resources used to sustain a huge terrorist enterprise - i.e., the destruction of Israel and its replacement with an Islamist state. For the Israelis, this is a war of survival in an intensely hostile region. They deserve the full support of the U.S., Great Britain, and the Western world, which must stand shoulder to shoulder with a close friend and ally. As Hamas' offensive illustrates, Israel is the front line of a global conflict between the forces of freedom and the forces of tyranny and barbarism. This is not just Israel's war, it is ours too. The threat Israel faces from the jihadists is the same threat the West faces. An emphatic defeat for Hamas will be a huge blow not only to the Islamist dictatorship in Tehran, but to the followers of Bin Laden as well.
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