Israel, the right side of history and the kind of people you can see on the other side

On this day, one year ago, the terrorist organization Hamas perpetrated the worst massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Terrorist attack on Israel: once again, the communists and the nazis united in infamy
The terrible images of civilians, including babies and children, murdered by Hamas

An attack more devastating for Israel than 9/11 for the US

The genocide perpetrated by the nazis left horrific images for history. Likewise, the anti-Semitic pogrom perpetrated by Hamas left scenes of pure horror, many of them recorded by the terrorists themselves to boast about the atrocities they were committing against unarmed civilians, including children and babies. What happened a year ago was an exhibition of sadism carried out by monstrous criminals with a purely diabolical ideology. Even today, 101 people remain held hostage by these terrorists.

The Hamas terrorist attack shocked Israeli society, a society that is already sadly accustomed to terrorism and that has been attacked and harassed for decades by its Muslim neighbors, who have tried to repeat the extermination of the Jews at the hands of the nazis on several occasions. Proportionately, this attack was more devastating for Israel than the attacks of September 11, 2001 were for the United States.

A bastion of Western civilization amidst Islamist fanatics

Any decent and civilized person should feel sympathy for the country under attack. Israel is the only truly democratic country in the Middle East, the only one with democratic freedoms like those we enjoy in the rest of the West, the only one with true religious freedom, and, like other democratic countries, it is the target of hatred by terrorist organizations that want to destroy Israel because it is part of Western civilization.

Just like the Ukrainian people in their heroic fight against the Russian invaders, Israel is now fighting alone against a wave of cruel and inhuman barbarians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defined very well the purpose of these terrorists: "They hate our free civilization. They want to bury it. They have an ideology that is mad." Obviously, Israel has the support of millions of people around the world. All of us who support Israel see that country as a bastion of Western civilization amidst a horde of Islamist fanatics who want to exterminate the Jewish people.

Defending Israel is being on the right side of history

Like any democratic country, Israel may have good and bad politicians, but its reason for being as a country is that the Jewish people have the right to exist in their ancestral home, in a land that has been inhabited by Jews for thousands of years. It is a right that many question only for Jews. They never discuss the fact that there are many Islamic countries that are, in fact, oppressive to religious minorities and even to Muslims themselves.

Today, to defend Israel is to be on the right side of history: on the side of the defense of Western civilization, on the side of reason against barbarism, on the side of freedom against tyranny. Those of us who defend Israel have a certainty that others throughout history have had: those who defended Poland in 1939 against the German-Soviet invasion, those who defended the United Kingdom when it fought almost alone against Hitler, and also those who defend the Ukrainian people against the criminal Russian aggression.

The tyrants among the enemies of Israel

As if the facts are not enough to understand who is right, as if it is not enough to see the hatred and horrendous crimes committed by Hamas against men, women, children and babies in a display of savagery, it is enough to see who Hamas's allies are and, in general, Israel's enemies are to clear up any doubts.

Hamas is one of the tentacles of a network of terrorist organisations supported by the Islamist dictatorship of Iran, a tyrannical regime that has made the Persian people prisoners in their own country. Hamas also receives support from Qatar, an absolute monarchy where there is no religious freedom and where women, as in Iran, suffer all kinds of discrimination. Among Hamas' sponsors is also Turkey, whose current president, Erdogan, seems determined to turn that country into an Islamist dictatorship. In addition, Putin's dictatorship has also had fluid relations with Hamas.

Antisemitic fanatics who hate Israel in the West

At the international level, for the past 12 months, the West has been suffering from a new wave of antisemitism promoted by three main sectors: the extreme left (including communists and also many socialists), the extreme right (the real one) and Islamism. Coincidentally, they are practically the same useful idiots who have been supporting or favouring Russia in its aggression against Ukraine.

Of course, this coincidence is not a mere coincidence: among these sectors there are many enemies of the West as a democratic civilization with Judeo-Christian roots. They are sectors in which anti-Semitism has been cultivated for many years (remember, for example, the antisemitic pamphlet written by Karl Marx in 1844, a pamphlet that any nazi could sign).

Certainly, there are solid reasons to support Israel regardless of who supports its enemies and who supports the only democracy in the Middle East, but seeing who Israel's enemies are should make it even clearer for anyone who defends the West and Freedom.

For the defeat of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamist dictatorship of Iran

For my part, Israel has my full support in its defense against terrorists, a fight that I hope will end with the eradication of criminal organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, which have been a dangerous threat to peace in that region since their founding, and also with the overthrow of the Islamist dictatorship in Iran, one of the main threats to peace in the world today. I end these lines with the same words and the same flag that I published a year ago in my first article after the Hamas attack:

Am Yisrael Chai!
The People of Israel live!

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Photo: Reuters/Baz Ratner.