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Source: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article312277534.html
Why Standing with Israel Is Defending Civilization's Future
(Miami Herald) Rene Garcia - Last week, I stood on ground soaked with unspeakable evil. I walked the quiet kibbutz where families were massacred in their homes. I stood at the site of the Nova music festival, once a place of joy, now a graveyard of innocence. Seeing the aftermath in person was a sobering reminder of the brutality Israel endured on Oct. 7, 2023, and why the world must never forget. What I witnessed was not war. It was not resistance. It was barbarism. Children butchered. Women brutalized. Families burned alive. Parents shot in front of their children and children slaughtered in front of their parents. Hostages remain in captivity to this day. This is not just Israel's fight. It is humanity's. It is ours. Hamas is not merely targeting Jews or Israelis. Their hatred is aimed at all of us, the Free World, the West, Judeo-Christian civilization itself. Their goal is not coexistence but eradication. Israel is protecting not only its right to exist but the very values that underpin our way of life: freedom of speech, freedom of religion and equality before the law. When we defend Israel, we defend ourselves. The writer is a Miami-Dade County commissioner.