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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-902776
Israel Is Fighting on the Front Lines of the War for Western Civilization
(Jerusalem Post) Dr. Dan Diker interviewed by Mathilda Heller - After a majority of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on July 15 to cut off aid to Israel, Dr. Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told the Jerusalem Post: "The indications from this vote are that Israel should open its eyes very, very widely and understand that it has major challenges. There's a convergence between the isolationist wing of the Republican Party and the left wing of the Democratic Party." Diker said Israel needs to be very focused on maintaining its relationship with the U.S., because the "United States is Israel's greatest, most dependable ally." At that same time, he stressed that Israel must be independent from the U.S. "The Oct. 7...massacre taught Israel that it must become independent in terms of supplying its own military security and defense capabilities, and we cannot be dependent on anyone as a supplier. We have to be able to fundamentally arm and supply ourselves to be able to be fully security and defense independent." Nevertheless, "Trump really appreciates a strong Israel. Trump looks at Israel as a winner." "Generally, certainly in the Free World where they look at...people who are perceived to be oppressed as being virtuous, there is the expression: 'strong is wrong, weak is right.' And Israel is on the strong side today. That's why the more powerful Israel behaves in terms of deterring its enemies, the more antisemitism spikes in the West." Israel is fighting on the "front lines of the war for Western civilization." Those who supported cutting aid to Israel do not understand that "the people who hate America hate Israel because they think we're an extension of America; that's why they're trying to destroy us." "The point here is that the West needs to understand the ideological structure of its enemies in the Middle East and how Israel is fighting with its daughters and sons to protect America from the Middle East against another 9/11."