Robert Harris is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in the United States, Asia and the Middle East.
After October 7, we Jews must see the world clearly and as it truly is, or we risk even greater dangers to Israel.
The foreign policy incompetents at the White House and the US State Department have apparently determined that an Israeli victory in Gaza is not in the national interest of the United States.
The leftist Biden White House appears to be carrying out this policy in secret---just as it does many of its far left policies that the American public would oppose.
As a matter of perspective, these policy makers are the same “old-hand” Washington lunatics who said it was in the US national interest to surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban, to support a Moslem Brotherhood government in Egypt, to invite the Russians to return to the Middle East and to repeatedly downgrade relations with long-time US allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, while at the same time wooing Islamo-fascist Iran.
Also remember that we have seen, following October 7, that whatever actions Israel takes, the West continues to hate us.
Win the war, don’t win the war……we will remain the evil Jews.
Feed the Palestinian Arabs, don’t feed the Palestinian Arabs…..everything is the Jews’ fault.
After October 7, the enormous changes confronting the Jews might include a new understanding that the world has emerged from its post-Holocaust quiet about the Jews, and now returns to its normal, genetically-embedded hostility and hatred.
And because nothing ever changes, the leaderless Diaspora Jews will again run to hide in the shadows. Don’t expect more from them.
We also need to understand that those who hold power in the West have weaponized every international organization, every Gaza battlefield event, every media outlet and every university, to be used as clubs to beat down Israel.
At this moment, the easiest club to grab is the blaming of Israel for the deaths of seven aid workers in Gaza on April 1. Country after country has piled on top of Israel and the always-hated Benjamin Netanyahu to self righteously beat their breasts about humanity and morality.
While Mr. Biden might not be able to remember what he ate for breakfast, we remember that the American military killed large numbers of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, without any worldwide outcry.
-Where was the diseased world media when an Iraqi family of nine was killed during a US bombing raid on terrorists in Baghdad in February 2008?
-Where were the thousands and thousands of marching barbarians when the US accidentally blew up an Afghani family of ten traveling in a car, killing seven children, in August 2021?
And when you think there could be no greater Western hypocrisy, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s demands of the Jews--demands!-- that Israel investigate and punish those Israeli officers involved in the deaths of the Gaza aid workers, though he would not even admit that the Americans had killed the ten Afghani family members following those deaths on his watch.
After being caught in his lies, Austin announced that there would be no investigations or punishments of American officers involved in the Afghan deaths, because in war these things happen and civilians die. No one likes it, but that is the truth.
Meanwhile, British Foreign Minister David Cameron has also criticized the Jews for the Gaza aid workers’ deaths. He further warned the Jews that continued UK support should not be taken for granted.
Let us remember that it was the British whose officers commanded the Jordanian army in 1948 when they expelled every Jew from the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem. It was also British officers who commanded Jordanian soldiers as they burned down 57 synagogues in the Jewish quarter in 1948.
And we will always remember that it was the British who stood down the road, watched and happily did nothing to stop the Arab barbaruans as they massacred 78 Jewish doctors and nurses in a convoy heading to Hadassah Hospital on April 13, 1948.
And lest we forget, just as an errant bomb killed the aid workers in Gaza, the British accidentally bombed a school in Copenhagen on March 21, 1945, killing 87 children and 18 staff.
Following the deaths of the Gaza aid workers, the unbelievably impotent Biden threatened to suspend American aid to Israel. Did the Americans threaten to end their support of the British after the death of the Copenhagen school children?
An important part of the West’s campaign against the Jews is to also use the welfare of the Arabs of Gaza as a club to beat Israel.
However, the West always held the key to ending the war in Gaza.
All they had to do was negotiate the surrender and evacuation of Hamas.
In 1982, the West arranged for the blood-soaked Yassir Arafat to surrender and depart from Lebanon as a solution to end the Israel-Lebanon war.
Why has not one country in the world suggested this now?
Why has not one media outlet campaigned for a Hamas surrender?
Why has not the antisemitic United Nations asked Hamas to surrender?
Why has not one foreign official traveled to the Middle East to promote an end to the war with Hamas surrendering?
Why have they not brought planes and ships to evacuate the Gazans, most of whom want to leave, and settle them elsewhere?
Why? Because the West hates Israel ---and their hatred is deep within them and embedded in their DNA.
So be it.
We have not survived for 4,000 years as a people because of the non-Jews’ hatred of us, but in spite of it.
We know what the West is. We know what the Arabs are. And we know who we, the Jews, are.
We also know that the soul of the White House is sympathetic to the 40 young intern-savages who signed a letter demanding Israel withdraw from Gaza and surrender to Hamas. If the White House did not support these sentiments, they would have fired these brain-dead interns.
The heart of the State Department is also in agreement with their own workers who signed a similar letter condemning Israel. Of course, at State the fastest way to advancement has always been outdoing your colleagues in Jew-hatred.
This is the State Department that said it was better to leave unused 350,000 existing US entry visas for Europeans from 1933 to 1945, rather than let any more stinking Jews into America.
And that was not a display of the usual State Department country club antisemitism. That was a matter of life and death. And the State Department slammed the door shut, and we Jews died.
Looking a little deeper into the letters by interns calling Israel’s war genocide, it is critical to remember that these interns would not have been hired unless they were adherents to the woke religion, as are the White House and State Department staffs.
And they also would not have been hired had they worn crosses or Stars of David during their interviews.
Indeed, the White House interns and State Department staffs were probably encouraged to write their Jew-hating letters by their superiors.
Haman, himself, would know that those in Washington were his kind of people and he would have knocked on the State Department door seeking a job. And with his background in building gallows for Jews, he would have been fast-tracked onto the government payroll.
On October 7 the Arab barbarians killed 1,200 Jews. They used guns, they burned, they beheaded, they raped and then they kidnapped.
We Jews must see the world as it is, not how we wish it was. In truth, the Arabs are the Arabs. Massacres are what they do. Raping is in their blood. Kidnappings are in their souls. This is how they have behaved in country after country they have lived in.
So it is with the West….they are who they are. Just as in the past, the West has again shown the Jews that we have only ourselves to ensure our future.
Alliances with the West are only a matter of political expediency. They are not expected to last long.
Treaties and agreements with the West are only maintained temporarily. Ask the South Vietnamese who were guaranteed that the North would not conquer them after the Americans departed, ask the Ukrainians who were told they should give up their nuclear arms because the West would protect them from the Russians, ask the Afghanis and the Iraqis about Western assurances.
And critically, we must not forget that there is no real peace with Jordan and Egypt.
This is our world. There are no guarantees, there are only great dangers, and our enemies remain animals, sometimes garbed in keffiyehs and other times in business suits.
This was the same uncertainty the Jews lived with in Babylonia, Alexandria, Cairo, Baghdad, Rome, Athens, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, Warsaw, Moscow, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Kiev, Lvov, Minsk…..
And for those Jews who desperately hope we can rely on the West, try to find even one country that objected as 900,000 Jews were expelled after 1948 from Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
“Nothing changes in the Jewish world,” sighed an old man riding an Egged bus in Jerusalem after October 7.
“Not so,” replied a middle aged woman. “Now we have Israel.”
Yes, we do have Israel. That is a colossal change, but October 7 reminded us how fragile Israel is, what barbarians our enemies are, how resilient the Jewish people are, and how precious is this moment in Jewish history that we are privileged to live in.
Writing of the Jewish times he participated in, Menahem Begin said: “The idea of freedom had captured our hearts completely… The individual identified himself with that idea. And if it meant the surrender of his personal liberty—he surrendered it; if it required that he leave his family—he left it; if it involved the enduring of torture—he accepted it; if it called for continuous exposure to danger—he resigned himself to it; if it demanded his life—he gave it.”
May the Jewish people have the courage to live by the example of Menahem Begin and his generation of Jewish fighters.