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Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-literal-war-on-christmas-was-never-about-israel-either/
A War on Christmas Was Never about Israel
(National Review) Dan McLaughlin - There's a habit or reflex in discussing antisemitic violence to explain or even excuse it as being a response to purported Israeli injustices. Yet it is hard to explain exactly how attacking Jews celebrating Hannukah in Australia has anything to do with Gaza. It is also thunderingly obvious that Islamist radicals are not principally acting out of grievance at Israeli foreign policy, as they are simultaneously waging war on open and public Christianity in Europe. German authorities announced Saturday that five men have been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a Christmas market in the Dingolfing area of southern Bavaria. Authorities believe the plot was motivated by Islamist extremism. Bavaria is not exactly the center of IDF activity. In 2024, a car drove into a crowded outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, killing at least five people and injuring more than 200. In a 2018 attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, five people were killed and several more were injured. In 2016, an Islamist extremist drove a truck into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 13 people and injuring dozens more. In Paris, authorities canceled an annual New Year's celebration that drew half a million people last year, because their safety from Islamist radicals can no longer be secured. It starts with Jews, but it never ends there. These are enemies of our entire civilization, and their only actual demand is submission.