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After the War, the Reckoning
(Substack) Jake Wallis Simons - It looks like the war in Gaza is drawing to a close. The West - meaning the democracies aside from the U.S. - must embark upon a soul-searching. How can it be that almost every single leader allowed himself or herself to be brainwashed by Hamas and its international sympathizers to the extent that all the pressure and condemnation was directed at Israel? How can so many countries have grown so damnably confused between enemies and friends? We are possessed by a weakling and bloodless worldview which flows from two beliefs. Firstly, that an enemy is simply a friend you have not made yet. Secondly, that appeasement is the best route to peace. You'd have thought that the entirety of history, particularly the Second World War, have adequately demonstrated the opposite. The truth is the same as it has always been: evil exists in the world and sometimes the only alternative is to defeat it. Israel has never had the luxury of forgetting this.