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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/the-impotence-of-the-west-in-the-face-of-islamist-antisemitism/
The Impotence of the West in the Face of Islamist Antisemitism
(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - The massacre perpetrated in Sydney against hundreds of Jews celebrating Hanukkah proves once again that Islamists are waging a religious war against the people of Israel and against all non-believers in the West. They consistently choose a Jewish or Christian holiday to commit barbaric attacks. Western nations have remained unable to eradicate the scourge of Islamist terror. Numerous attacks have been thwarted thanks to invaluable intelligence provided by Mossad to various intelligence services. Without these warnings, the list of Islamist attacks in Europe and Australia would have been longer. There is no difference between the Palestinian Hamas terrorists and all the Shiite and Sunni terrorists who perpetrate attacks in Sydney, Washington, Manchester, or Paris. They all wish to create Islamic states in place of the Jewish state and Christian countries. Even today, Saladin remains a hero of Islam, the great victor over the Crusaders in 1187. We have no choice but to continue our tireless fight against the cult of death. It is our collective destiny. For over a century, we have been fighting the scourge of Palestinian terrorism, and every day we thwart planned attacks. The Jewish state is acting in legitimate self-defense and has the absolute right to fight, without pity and without mercy, against all those who want to wipe us off the map. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.