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Source: https://spectator.com/article/flydubai-and-the-heroism-of-ordinary-jews/
Flydubai and the Heroism of Ordinary Jews
(Spectator-UK) Brendan O'Neill - On that insane flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, the murderous bigotry of the extremist came head to head with the Jewish people's love of life. Mercifully, the latter won. The Jews were victorious. Once again, they thwarted their enemies. The footage from that Flydubai flight is terrifying. The plane plummeted 17,000 feet in just two minutes. Imagine the horror of that. Then came the brilliant, brave fightback. The passengers weren't ready to die. According to one passenger, "three to five guys" stormed the cockpit and subdued the attacker. This was by all accounts an act of resistance against the culture of death. Whether it was an act of suicidal lunacy or of jihadist hate, the fact remains that Israelis fought back against barbarism in the skies and landed a beautiful blow for humanity over hatred. If this was an attempt to kill Israelis, can we really be surprised? Hatred for Israel is out of control. Israelophobia unites the plummy keffiyeh-wearer of the leafy campus and the conspiratorial cab driver in Kabul. It's the great moral blight of our times. In such a fevered climate, assaults on Israelis, and on the Jews of the West too, are naturally going to spike. If this does turn out to have been an attempted mass murder of Israelis, I expect the response to the heroism we saw will be muted. Heaven forfend we praise Israelis! Aren't Israelis meant to just suck up suspected jihadist attacks on their way of life and never fight back? That's effectively been a rallying cry since the pogrom of 7 October. Do you side with the swirling anti-human hatred for the Jewish state, or with the Jews' determination to survive against all the odds? I know whose side I'm on.