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A year and a half after the innocent massacre of 1,200 people, the wounded 250 victims and 1,200 people innocent massacre by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, the war is raging in Israel and its surrounding area. It's closer to its end than its beginning, but it's still furious.
As President Biden's cognitive impairment worsened and became more apparent, the strong early support for the American Jewish state shaking. I don't know if the former president's frailty has influenced his original's decisive support for Israel by allowing his party's anti-Israel wing to rise within the West Wing, or will worry about the leadership of his campaign and advising that Iran and its troops are needed to win last fall. Thanks to NBC's new book, Battle: The Wildest Battle of the White House, by Jonathan Allen on Hills, we now know for sure that one of the US and planetary allies has expanded and expanded and deepened as months pass.
That highly unsettling story was also mentioned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Israeli journalist Gadi Taub last week. It wasn't just a halt of one shipment of a 2,000-pound bomb. Not only did Vice President Harris claim that he had “studied the maps,” but it wasn't that Rafa was unable to attack. It was a collective shift against Israel at all levels of the Biden administration that should have shocked every friend on our side.
Trump says he will deal with Iran “directly” at a high-level meeting on Saturday
Of course, that changed, and President Donald Trump is at least on par with his defiant support for Israel. This is a relief, as Iran shows no indication that he wants nothing but “broken.”
The destruction of Iranian air defenses, which Israel destroyed most of Iranian proxy forces in the region, and the Western enemy thought were very strong, proved to be very weak during the course of the war, leaving Iran's nuclear sites and oil refineries vulnerable. Ayatollah Khamenei's previous choice is tough. There is no official evidence that the Iranian “supreme leader” has retreated his fanaticism and accepted President Trump's invitation to peacefully abandon his nuclear ambitions, but we cannot know. Rogue states like Libya and South Africa during the apartheid era have chosen to abandon the WMD program. It is not impossible for Iran to do that either. It's unlikely, but not impossible.
What is impossible is to erase a record of who did what, and in the process of what should be called Israel and Iran, “sometimes the flares rise, and everyone can see exactly where they stand,” Douglas Murray writes, “on the future of Israel and the civilization,” his deep “on the cult of democracy and death.” That flare went up to 10/7 and didn't dim for a while. Everything is on the record. The calculation continues.
Murray reminds readers of some of the horrific atrocities of the 10/7 war crimes, and reminds them to trace the immediate arrival of apologisers to the terrorists. It is necessary, but it is a troublesome revisiting the facts of an attempt to destroy Israel before Israel can turn to the biggest questions. Reporters like Murray can't do much more than remind them of some of the horrifying crimes, some of the victims, and many of Israel's heroes. What he does elegantly sets readers for the question, “What can Western liberal societies do in the face of such movements,” since 9/11, like Hamas and Hezbollah, and of course Iran.
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Murray cannot provide an answer, but he leads a careful reader to measured optimism. The West can rallies, reject the death cult, and produce a new generation of warriors and patriots despite Israel's having over 18 months.
It does not need to persuade the useful idiots of the West that march in defense of totalitarian killers and scream. “The way to get into these students' heads is that this is not a game of some sort?” Murray asks after reviewing some of the terrifying apologeur's stupidest slogans. It doesn't seem to think so.
But that doesn't seem to be much needed. The rest of the United States, Israel and the West have deep wells of living freely to defeat enemies and stop others.
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Journalists like Murray and public intellectuals like Murray arrive at the most needed moment, as Murray does. “Fearless” doesn't begin to explain how he covered Israel's trauma, its recovery and its continued march to an easy overwhelmed victory over the evil surrounding it. The costs were so immeasurable that it can be hard to remember that civilized people have gathered in Israel throughout this long, often frightening war, and that they will continue. Certainly there are indications that the Gaza people themselves are taking place in butchers who have brought such devastation to their minds. Lebanon may also be awakened to the hope that, like Syria, the future of their country does not need to be mortgled by Tehran fanatics.
The cost is very high and still high. Murray expresses the reality that he has no choice but to stand up to evil and be defeated. This is a book you should get, read and buy for your family and friends. This is a rivet account and a deep assessment of where we went and the choices we have to make. It should be a bestseller and proudly displayed at the table of men who represent freedom and human dignity to fanatics of our time.
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