Israel: This is not a land conflict but a battle for the soul of humanity
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JERUSALEM, Oct 10: A storm whipped up in Jerusalem today – literally, that is: the skies darkened as high winds roughly shook the trees, adding to the sense of foreboding that lies like a heavy blanket across the city. The streets are empty, the buses running on half service as drivers and vehicles alike have been deployed elsewhere to help with the war effort.
Most shops, bars and restaurants are shut. It’s eerie, like Covid-lockdown-eerie, particularly as this is new for Israel — past wars and intifadas didn’t stop normal life like this. No one is sure why this time is different. Maybe it’s because Israel has never been caught off guard this way before.
People are muttering ‘How could it happen?’ and asking why the army took so long to respond, but mostly they’re hoping things will return to normal as soon as possible. This is especially true of those in tourism and hospitality who were on the brink of getting back on their financial feet after Covid. The tourists were only just starting to return in decent numbers.
Sometime mid-morning I stopped obsessively hitting refresh on the media live feeds; the full scale of Saturday’s atrocity is now clear. New and ever worse acts of terror threaten. What isn’t clear, however, is what comes next on the wider front. Was this just an opening salvo? Are threats of an uprising in the West Bank, or of Hezbollah carrying out a full-scale assault on the northern border, merely more bluster, of the type we’ve grown used to? Moods keep swinging between defiantly light-hearted and sombre concern. Certainly where I’m sitting, about a mile from East Jerusalem where people regularly let off rounds of gunfire to ‘celebrate weddings’, the feeling is very much one of nervous anticipation.
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What most (not all!) Israelis understand, but the rest of the world yet does not, is that this conflict is not about land. … Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad don’t want a Palestinian state of their own alongside the Jewish state. As difficult as it is for Westerners to fathom, this is a religious war. Hamas and PIJ, like ISIS, are religious fanatics, the modern equivalent of Europe’s Crusaders, fully armed with state-of-the-art weapons.
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In the last few days, there have been a few comments on Twitter/X and elsewhere to the effect of: ‘Why is the West getting dragged into this? What does a Middle Eastern land conflict have to do with us?’
The answer is simple: if this were a Middle Eastern land conflict, it would have nothing to do with you. But it isn’t. It’s an existential conflict for the very soul of humanity itself. Make no mistake, if Israel is overwhelmed by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, it won’t stop there. Those people chanting in Birmingham for a ‘free Palestine’ on Sunday will happily chant for a ‘free Britain’ tomorrow, by which they will mean a Britain entirely subjugated by an Islamic caliphate.
What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews.
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Yes, it's not about land. Nor is it, in my opinion, about 'colonialism'. If the leftists want to decolonize something, start with Constantinople. It was the first Christian city in the world and was Christian for like a thousand years. Muslims conquered it, raped it, enslaved the people, and colonized it. If the leftists oppose colonialism, why don't they want to free Constantinople from Muslim rule?
The leftists, who support the Muslims against Jews and Christians want to destroy both Judaism and Christianity and to replace the worship of God with the worship of government. The leftist support of Muslims is a means to that end. Christians and Jews worship the same God and are threatened by the same enemies.
What Hamas has done is demonic. Israel has every right to liberate Gaza from those Jihadist demons. Deus vult 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱