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The "Forever War" We Should Really Be Worried About

(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - On Sunday, America's airforce pummeled nuclear sites in Iran. On the same day, the IDF announced it had recovered the body of Ofra Kedar, 70, from Gaza. On Oct. 7, Ofra was taking her usual morning walk in Kibbutz Be'eri when she happened upon men from the 6,000-strong army of Islamo-fascists that invaded Israel that day. In the moment they drew their guns, Ofra's daughter-in-law phoned her. She later recounted Ofra's last words. "Why are you shooting at me? What did I do?" The call ended. The cruel demise of this good woman at the hands of an invading army reminds us that this war started 625 days ago. Her brutal death stand as a fierce rebuke to the moral infantilism of those who accuse Israel of launching an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. From beyond the grave, this Jew, who perished along with 1,200 others in a pogrom of the like we hadn't seen since the Nazis, pleads with us to do what is right and just and think honestly about the origins of this war. The depiction of Iran as the victim of unjust violence represents a sickening erasure of Jews like Ofra Kedar who were put to death by a militia sponsored by Iran. Irish novelist Sally Rooney, writing in the Guardian, accuses Israel and the U.S. of launching "a series of unprovoked" attacks on Iran. Was the murder of Ofra Kedar not a provocation? Was the Iranian-approved invasion of Israel for the purposes of raping and murdering a thousand Jews not a provocation? To say the strikes on Iran are "unprovoked" is to say the mass murder of Jews is not an especially important event. It's not worth avenging. What worries me right now is the blindness of political actors across the West to the true Forever War, the one that started this current war. This is the war of Iran against the Jewish nation; the war of Islamism against the Jews; the war of tyrannical theocracy against democracy. For 46 years, the Islamic Republic has been devoted to the destruction of the Jewish state. Iranian children are taught to hate Israel. The Israeli flag is set alight on official parades. The proxies of Hamas, Hizbullah and the Houthis are funded and trained to attack Israel and slaughter its people. There's your Forever War - Iran's almost 50-year mission to lay apocalyptic waste to the world's only Jewish nation.
2025-06-25 00:00:00
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