Like Cato the Elder, the rational Roman speaker, we must assert: the 100-year experiment has ended in complete failure. The October 7 massacre, endorsed by polls and statements from the Palestinian Authority that praised and promised the cleansing of Jews from the land, has shattered our hopes for human brotherhood.
There is no political solution to the conflict with the Palestinians, who refuse to recognize our right to return to our land. Politician Ahmed Tibi succinctly captured this dynamic with his statement: “No Jews, no attacks.”
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Palestinians breach the Gaza-Israeli border during the October 7 massacre
(Photo: Reuters/Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa)
With support from the ICC and Muslim jihadist sympathizers in Europe and the U.S., the White House's relentless efforts to undermine Israel's right to self-defense and leave the murderous Palestinians at our borders will lead to the demise of the Zionist dream. This cannot happen.
We stand alone, and it is no surprise. Just as it was then, so it is now. When much of the ancient world thought the opposite, we taught the world to choose the right to life and the dignity of man, to fight against the culture of murder and tyranny. Once again, the global wheel of values turns against us. Once again, we are alone. Such is the fate of being a beacon. Stable. Strong. Illuminating for all from afar. But ultimately alone.
Representative of the irrational progressive minority in the U.S., Secretary of State Blinken's actions, ranging from the military threats against Israel to the criminal indictments against its heads of state, seek to force an end to the war while the enemy is on the brink of victory. In other words: Israel has lost.
The masses continue to push Blinken to turn against the country that is fighting for its life and cynically barter the lives of the hostages. Israeli journalists directly manipulated by the White House assist his hand—serving as useful idiots that will leave us stuck in a stalemate with 2 million Palestinians, many of whom desire our destruction—all the while Hezbollah and Iran lurk in the shadow ready for action. This poses nothing short of an existential threat to Israel.
Diplomacy is the art of balance and restraint. To survive in a world complex with good and evil, states must simultaneously convey two opposing messages: one of violent bullying and the other of moral superiority.
We must once again shine light onto the world
The Oslo Accords and their counterparts held significance during an era of moral superiority. However, faced with a pseudo-enlightened Western secular culture that lost all will to self-defense and serves only to sanctify the enemy’s rights to compassion and assistance, we must once again shine light onto the world and save it from itself. We must move towards an era of violent bullying.
The founding fathers of the Jewish state entrusted and equipped us with abilities to use in our time of existential need. Now that time has come.
Israel must say to the world in a loud voice: You will not leave us stuck alone with 2 million potential murderers (because they were raised to hate), backed by tens of thousands of rockets that surround us from the north and the east. You shut your eyes, support terrorism and murder—and ultimately, hope that Israel will disappear. The opposite will happen. Israel will prosper and win. We have the ability to instill fear of our might in our enemies. In the jungle, they fear the mighty predator, the violent bully. We have the capabilities to deter them. In the Yom Kippur war, it worked. Israel must open and close the curtains of the textile factory in Dimona. Must open and close the shelves of Jericho missiles. Some people do not understand that we are in an existential war. So we will explain.
The murderous Palestinians must become a problem for the entire world. They have never been embraced by authentic Arab countries in the Arabian Peninsula, who yearn for the victory of Israel and the eradication of Iran. The world must bear the cost of the solution, which we too will take part in. If you have constructed for them a narrative that murderers have a right to kill, you must bear the expenses of their re-education.