“We died for you”, Israel to allied countries

Israel is winning. But will the West succeed?

Unlike the Jewish state, whose citizens rushed into battle hours after the Hamas attacks and continued to fight in Gaza, southern Lebanon and as far away as Yemen and Iran, too many Westerners are marching eyes closed towards their own extinction.

A crowd carrying Palestinian flags near the Ajax stadium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 7, 2024 | Photo: AP Photo InterVision | Photo: AP

A year ago, I issued a stark warning to those who were malicious or misguided enough to side with Hamas and other Iranian terrorist proxies in the war against Israel.

“We died for you”I said, which means: we, the Israelis, we, the Jews, the friends of Israel and the Jews, will not forget or forgive those who choose genocidal Islamist barbarism rather than the only liberal democracy of Middle East.

I was blunt and furious because my heart was broken by the atrocities of October 7 – mass murder, looting, kidnapping and rape at a level not seen since the Holocaust – and because, just like in the days of Holocaust, too many people in the so-called civilized West were content to explain or even celebrate the horror while blaming the Jewish victims.

I knew that my homeland, Israel, would turn that same brutality and fury into an iron fist, a full-scale counteroffensive against the fanatics on its borders and beyond, that would ensure that the promise of the future -World War II “Never again” would finally be applied. And I knew that this would require mobilizing Israel's allies in the West.

A year later, Israel is winning the war. On this level, my concerns have been eased.

But I worry even more about the West.

Because unlike the Jewish State, whose citizens rushed into battle a few hours after the Hamas attacks and continued to fight in Gaza, southern Lebanon and as far as Yemen and Iran, too many Westerners are marching eyes closed towards their own extinction. Unlike Israelis who risked their lives and livelihoods for their collective survival, too many Westerners are content to look the other way while their countries are ravaged by invaders.

Witness Amsterdam. In the most permissive of European cities, a pogrom took place on the night of November 6 to 7. Hundreds of Israelis who had flown to attend a soccer match found themselves chased through leafy alleys by well-organized anti-Semitic mobs. As police disappeared into the darkness, dozens of Israelis were cornered, forced to show their passports or profess their religion, and assaulted. One of them was thrown into a nearly frozen canal.

Their attackers were not the drunken Cossacks of Tsarist Russia. The majority were Muslim men, immigrants or sons of immigrants, who unleashed an imported jihad in the name of“anti-Zionism”.

The irony is that suddenly Israelis felt less safe in Amsterdam than at home, at the height of the Middle East war. They were flown back to Tel Aviv within hours, because that's what a responsible country does for its citizens. But the Netherlands, and much of Europe, had to confront what these events foreshadowed for their own future.

Protesters hold a banner reading “Anti-Zionist and Anti-colonialist Resistance” during a demonstration organized by pro-Palestinian associations and French left-wing parties in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people in Paris, France, on March 13 November 2024 | Photo: EPA/Mohammed Badra

This problem will not resolve itself. Rampant Muslim immigration has long passed the demographic tipping point. It will not disappear. It will only get worse.

A continent whose indigenous white and Christian population is shrinking, with a declining birth rate while standards of living are rising, cannot support an influx of foreigners whose religious extremism is so often hostile and encouraging large families. Unless forced to adopt the values ​​of their host country, these immigrants will inevitably bring patriarchy and chauvinism, anti-Semitism and violent illiberalism.

And when the Jews are gone, they will turn their chaos against others: Christians, moderate Muslims, women and the LGBT community.

It is no coincidence that terrorism is virtually unknown in countries like Hungary and Poland. These countries have the good sense to exclude migrants from the Middle East, immediately sensing the demographic and cultural threat. But from the Netherlands to Norway, from Belgium to Great Britain, political leaders must no longer waste time being suicidal. Migrants who do not adapt and conform to national standards must leave. It's that simple.

Israel is the homeland of the Jews, a community whose history dates back 4,000 years. Europe has been Christian for almost two millennia. In contrast, Islam is a relatively young religion: a 7th century religion that spread through conquest. And what was once achieved by the sword is now achieved by radical Islamists through mass immigration and social exploitation.

Get up, Europe! Israel is doing you a favor by putting the brakes on some of the Middle East's worst exporters of chaos. Now do your part, but close the doors to him.

Par Dr. Miriam Adelson who is the editor of Israel Hayom. This article was published in Forbes Israel.

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