“We were attacked by those who seek the destruction of Israel. “This fight is not about politics or parties, it is about the defense and survival of our people.” Maor Elbaz Starinski – Consul General of Israel in Florida.
Commemorating one year since the massacre perpetrated by the terrorist group Hamas against Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke the following words: “We remember our fallen, our hostages – to whom we are committed to their return – our heroes who fell in defense of the homeland. “We experienced a terrible massacre a year ago and emerged as a nation of lions.” For a year now, this small giant has been in the middle of hostile countries defending itself from attacks by a powerful enemy like Iran and terrorist groups – Hamas and Hezbollah – economically powerful to continue their work of hatred, destruction and barbarism.
The Jewish people are no strangers to aggression, nor is Israel and although they emerged like lions since the massacre of October 7, 2023, they have done so in previous wars. That of 1948, that of the Palestinians during the 60s in which guerrillas from Syria, Egypt and Jordan attacked Israeli soldiers and civilians. The 6-day war in June 1967 where in less than a week and the resolution to defend their existence led them to defeat powerful enemies such as Egypt, Jordan and Syria that had the help of troops and weapons from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Algeria. The Yom Kippur War in October 1973 against a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria that began precisely on a sacred date and in which Cuban troops with tanks joined the infamy. And so another endless number of conflicts, various stages of the violent Intifadas. The conflict against Hezbollah in 2006 that began with the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. The succession of constant attacks from Gaza that still continue and began with one of the most brutal crimes against the Jewish people, resulting in 1,200 deaths and 251 hostages, of which more than a hundred are still in Gaza tunnels. Women were raped, children burned alive, families slit their throats in a display of inconceivable cruelty.
However, despite being a country that seeks to live in peace without attacking anyone, but defending itself against attacks, it has become the target of the liberal left. The embarrassing demonstrations on university campuses and in the streets of major cities in the United States are nothing more than a reminder of the hypocrisy of those who did not react with anger and indignation to the massacre of October 7, but to the right of a country to defend its citizens.
Still a year after such a brutal massacre in which blood and hatred were spilled without mercy, reports speak of 1,200 deaths without clarifying the circumstances in which they were killed. Terrorist groups are glorified as victims, a people who defends their own against missiles fired from powerful Iran and groups financed with billions of dollars are condemned. They defend them in the United Nations as if they were the victims and not the perpetrators, and they condemn Israel for defending its people.
The difference is that Israel created an anti-missile system to prevent attacks against its own. The Palestinians have Hamas leaders living luxuriously in allied countries and put civilians where they have the weapons and hide the terrorists. However, when the press cites figures it questions those of Israel and gives those of Gaza as official despite the fact that it has been proven on more than one occasion how they manipulate statistics and facts. This is a war resulting from Hamas aggression against defenseless Israelis, everything else is the result of that barbarity.
In war there are no losers or winners. We all lose, but the right of a people to defend itself from a brutal enemy is sacred. That is why every time the Biden-Harris administration comes out to call for a ceasefire or snub Netanyahu or covertly advocate for an arms embargo or send aid to the enemy, they are doing so against the victims and the Israeli people. Forgetting that that country is our main ally in the world. When the United Nations arduously defends the aggressors and blames those attacked, it is yet another infamy.
Our support for Israel in its most difficult moment, attacked by the south and the north, by Iran’s missiles, by an infamous campaign by the liberal press and the clumsiness of an administration that feels more sympathy for the aggressor than for the attacked . “You are officially the useful fools of Iran,” Netanyahu told those demonstrating in Washington against his presence. He also warned that “these savage murderers not only seek to destroy us, but also civilization and return us all to the dark era of tyranny and terror.”
Netanyahu reminded the world in his recent visit to the United Nations General Assembly of the danger of showing evil as good and good as evil. Let this warning not be one that is not taken into account. It was the same when the Holocaust and the Nazis exterminated six million Jews. Defend yourself, Israel, like a nation of lions, defend yourself from missiles, from hatred, from the liberal press, from opportunists and useful fools, for good is on your side and once again your strength and convictions will make you prevail.
