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Choose a Side: The Barbarous Regime that Oppresses and Murders Women, Workers and Minorities, or Israel
(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - The known death toll from the wave of missiles fired by Iran into Israel on Oct. 1 is Israelis 0, Palestinians 1. A man from Gaza who had been living near Jericho was brutally slain by the falling shrapnel from one of Iran's missiles. The Israelophobes of social media who salivated over Iran's attack were cheering a military operation that killed yet another Gazan. Oct. 7 made it clear that Iran's proxies are not just a threat to be carefully monitored but a fascistic menace capable of killing thousands of Jews. Not just something to be deterred but something to be destroyed. What is really troublesome is the haughty indignation of pampered Westerners who are lucky enough never to have experienced the existential threat of a pincer movement of racist armies. Israel, in countering Iran's pitiless exploitation of various states to prop up its fundamentalist worldview, is behaving far more like a "resistance." It is resisting Iran's proxy war on the Jewish nation and its bending of vast swathes of the Middle East to its theocratic will. You are either on the side of a barbarous theocratic regime that oppresses and murders women, workers and minorities and whose allies recently carried out the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, or you are on the side of Israel.