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If You Start a War, You Should Expect War

(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - If I had spent a large chunk of the past two years firing missiles into France, at some point I'd expect a missile back. I would know that the French would target me for death one day, and that they would have every right to do so. So what's with all the wailing and fainting following Israel's decapitation of the Houthi terror group? This is a virulently anti-Semitic militia that has been terrorizing the Jewish state with bombs and drones for two years straight. Israel's strike back is not a "war crime," as the moral illiterates of the Israelophobic mob would have you believe - it's justice. To depict Houthi leaders as innocent victims of a mad, bloodlusting Jewish state is to be recklessly and unforgivably ignorant of the reality on the ground. The Houthis have been firing hundreds of projectiles at Israel for two years, since Oct. 7, 2023, in solidarity with Hamas's fascistic slaughter of Jews in Israel. This has included scores of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. So what are all those people weeping and hollering about Israel's blast at the Houthis saying exactly? That anti-Semites should have the right to strike the Jewish state but the Jewish state has no right to strike back? The Houthis' very flag says: "Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam." You can't kill Jews with impunity anymore. You can't just go around plotting the death of Jewish people. It's not 1492. Or 1942. Violent antisemitism and fascistic intrusions into the safety and sovereign rights of the Jewish people have consequences now. The anti-Israel movement is a gathering of pathetic cry-bullies. Hamas carried out the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust and then wailed "War crime!" when those Jews fought back. Hizbullah rained missiles on northern Israel for two years, causing mass destruction, forced displacement and the deaths of Druze kids, and then cried "Barbarism!" when Israel responded. The Houthis say "We hate the Jews and we want to kill them" and then act all affronted when the Jews say "Nah, not today." The Israelophobes of the West seem to think it's "war" when you kill Jews and a "war crime" when Jews fight back. I can't believe this needs to be said, but if you start a war, you should expect war.
2025-09-02 00:00:00
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