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If the West Abandons Israel, We All Lose
(Spiked-UK) Mick Hume - Since anti-Semitic terrorists massacred more than 1,200 Jews and kidnapped more than 200 on Oct. 7, it has been clear that supporting Israel in its war to destroy Hamas is vital for the future of democracy and freedom not only in the Middle East, but also in the West. Yet, almost six months later, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) still advancing in Gaza, our Western political elites are close to full retreat in the face of the Islamist threat. Why should we object to calls for an immediate ceasefire? Surely everybody wants peace? Well, Hamas does not. Hamas leaders have openly sworn to repeat the Oct. 7 pogrom "again and again." Calling for an immediate ceasefire is effectively demanding that Israel must surrender and commit suicide. Hamas is not fighting for an independent Palestinian homeland, as the West's naive talk of a "two-state solution" suggests. It wants to destroy the State of Israel as part of its jihad to create a global Islamist caliphate. The chant, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," is a call for Israel to be wiped off the map, and for the Jews of Israel to be driven into the Mediterranean. The only genocidal force in this conflict is Hamas, whose terrorists butchered and brutalized Jews for being Jews on Oct. 7. They are not only genocidal, but gleeful with it, too. The Israelis are guilty only of waging war against genocide. The impending abandonment of Israel really does matter here in the UK, Europe and the West. This remains a fundamental struggle between civilization and barbarism. Not a "fight over territory." It is an existential battle about the survival of the only Western-style democracy in the Middle East - and the ability of Western society to defend its values against Islamist and allied barbarians. Anybody who wants to defend our democratic civilization needs to stand foursquare with the Israeli people, and to remind the world of who they are fighting against and what they are fighting for. As spineless Western leaders risk losing the life-and-death war over there, and the struggle for democratic values at home, our message needs to be: No Surrender.