It is hard to believe, let alone understand, but five years after September 11, there are still too many people who just don't get it.
Israel and the West are under assault. Our values, our beliefs, our entire way of life are at stake. Everything we hold dear ? faith, family, country ? must be defended.
These aren't just some melodramatic words or a bit of empty posturing ? they are cold, hard facts. And as difficult as they may be for many of us to accept, accept them we must, because the alternative is extinction.
Today, and for many days to come, I'm afraid, you'll see plenty of opinion pieces and newspaper articles pointing the finger of blame not at the bad guys who perpetrate the violence, but at those who seek to defend themselves and the rest of us from harm....
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Arutz-7's new blog: Fundamentally Freund.
Michael Freund served as Deputy Director of Communications & Policy Planning in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office under former premier Binyamin Netanyahu. He is Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel (www.shavei.org), which reaches out and assists "lost Jews" seeking to return to the Jewish people.
Israel and the West are under assault. Our values, our beliefs, our entire way of life are at stake. Everything we hold dear ? faith, family, country ? must be defended.
These aren't just some melodramatic words or a bit of empty posturing ? they are cold, hard facts. And as difficult as they may be for many of us to accept, accept them we must, because the alternative is extinction.
Today, and for many days to come, I'm afraid, you'll see plenty of opinion pieces and newspaper articles pointing the finger of blame not at the bad guys who perpetrate the violence, but at those who seek to defend themselves and the rest of us from harm....
Read the continuation of this commentary on
Arutz-7's new blog: Fundamentally Freund.
Michael Freund served as Deputy Director of Communications & Policy Planning in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office under former premier Binyamin Netanyahu. He is Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel (www.shavei.org), which reaches out and assists "lost Jews" seeking to return to the Jewish people.