Defending Israel and Western Civilization More Urgent than Ever

by Guy Millière  •  Gatestone Institute  •  April 13, 2025

The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel. The West, wrote the columnist Melanie Phillips, needs “to take off its blinders, join up the dots and fight like Israel to survive.” Pictured: Hamas terrorists on their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews, on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by CCTV footage: No human authorship – Financial Times, Public Domain)

• [A]ll Hamas needs to do to prevent this destruction is return all the hostages it should not have kidnapped in the first place. Amnesty International has served up a remarkable inversion of facts.

• “What’s shocking is that people in the Cease-Fire Now crowd don’t appear to have much interest in making any demands of Hamas equivalent to those they make of Israel. They want Israel to stop firing. But do you often hear them insisting that Hamas return the favor? They want Israel to provide Gaza with humanitarian relief in the form of electricity, fuel and other goods. But I haven’t seen those protesters in the street demanding that Hamas provide Israel with humanitarian relief in the form of immediately freeing all hostages…. For Israelis, what ‘Cease-Fire Now’ means is ‘Surrender Now.’ No wonder they decline to heed the call…. Whatever else one thinks of Israel, no country can be expected to sign its own death warrant by indulging those who, if given the chance, would annihilate it.” — Bret Stephens, New York Times, November 21, 2023.
• Clearly a massive dark-money problem obscenely exists within far too many universities and cities both in the US and Europe.
• It is also important to highlight the unabashedly toxic role of the United Nations…. [T]he United Nations quickly became the world’s leading organization for, among other unsavory practices, propagating hatred of Israel and a general hatred of Jews.
• The Palestinian Authority to this day pays its citizens to murder Jews — the more Jews, the larger the payments.
• In Europe, organizations that fight anti-Semitism…. Often left-wing, they primarily denounce far-right anti-Semitism, but never far-left anti-Semitism, and never ever Islamic anti-Semitism — currently the only form of anti-Semitism in Europe that attacks and kills Jews. Most Jewish organizations in Europe support Israel, but more often than not advocate for dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians and still support the mirage of a “two-state solution.”
• The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel.