Leftists are crying because they now feel Jew-haters' hot breath on their own necks", she discusses how political pressure is making British and American leaders abandon their principles to support Israel, and to equivocate instead, to appease the Muslims:
"This pressure comes from two overlapping constituencies: the anti-Israel left and the Muslim community. A similar problem is now on display within the Democratic Party and 'progressive' circles in America.
"Britain has sleep-walked into this. The core reason is that it has lost sight of what the nation stands for, and is no longer prepared even to define its core precepts and traditions let alone defend them.
"Israel is now fighting for its life and the lives of its people. It is doing so with ferocity because it understands the priceless value of the nation and the people that it is so painfully defending.
"This is the crucial weapon in its armoury that Britain no longer possesses — and that too many Jews and other 'progressives' in America also appear to be determined to throw away."
Her column titled "The war against the Jewish people and the west; \It's as if both Stalin and Hitler are being afforded a posthumous victory" is a distillation of the speeches she made in America this past weekend. Here are some excerpts:
"Western depravity
"There have been shocking scenes in British, American and Australian cities of massive and mostly Muslim mobs celebrating the mass murder of Jews and calling for more. Among the non-Jewish population, this genocidal hysteria is being viewed by millions more with indifference or even support, especially among the young.
"Polling has shown that among 18-24 year-old Americans, nearly half — 48 per cent — say they side more with Hamas. More than half — 51 per cent — think the Hamas pogrom in which 1400 Israelis were slaughtered can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians.
"In Britain and America, young people have been tearing down posters bearing pictures of some of the kidnapped Israeli children.
"Thousands of demonstrators have been chanting 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' — the demand for the destruction of Israel. In London, mobs have been chanting 'Khybar, Khybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammed will return' — the reference to the seventh century slaughter of the Jews of Khybar by Islam’s founder Mohammed, which acts as a jubilant glorification and incitement of the slaughter of Jews today.
'The western media have been pumping out Hamas propaganda. The BBC and other outlets headline civilian casualty figures put out by Hamas — regardless of the fact that these are always hugely exaggerated, and with no acknowledgment of the fact that terrorists are presumably included in these figures and may constitute the majority.
'While berating Israel for causing a humanitarian 'catastrophe,' they make no mention of the thefts of fuel and electricity to service the Hamas terrorist infrastructure in the miles of underground tunnels. They make no mention of the rocket attacks which continue without remission against Israeli civilians. Instead they demand of Israeli spokesmen: 'Why are you killing babies in Gaza?'
'Even though Hamas is committing war crimes by using Gazan civilians as human shields, western 'progressives' are accusing Israel of war crimes. Even though Israel has been warning Gazan civilians to flee for their own safety as required by international law while Hamas is forcing them under gunfire to stay in place, Israel is being accused of breaking international law.
"Thousands of cultural and intellectual figures have been signing declarations of solidarity with Gaza. They have not condemned Hamas for butchering and kidnapping Israelis. Nor have they acknowledged the plight of the 240-plus hostages.
"Instead, they have blamed 'settler colonial occupation and European empire'. They have blamed Israel for 'collective punishment' of the Palestinian population, who voted Hamas into power and a majority of whom tell pollsters they still support it — and even if they don’t support support Hamas, a majority support the killing of Jews.
"All civilian casualties are regrettable. In war, however, these are inevitable. And these are Gazan civilians who handed out sweets and rejoiced at the slaughter of the pogrom. Gazan civilians who poured through the broken boundary fence after the Hamas terrorists smashed through and joined in the orgy of bloodletting, looting and kidnap. Gazan civilians who spat upon and desecrated the bodies of those who had been kidnapped and paraded through the streets.
"Across the west, antisemitic attacks which were already at record levels have now increased many times over. People hurled firebombs at a synagogue in Berlin. In Amsterdam, three Jewish schools closed temporarily over safety worries. In Sydney where mobs chanted 'gas the Jews' in front of the Sydney Opera House, the police advised the Jewish community to 'stay home' for their own safety.
"What’s been revealed is something far wider than the battle by Israel against genocidal Iran and its proxies. The depravity witnessed in the slaughter within Israel has put down roots in Britain, Europe, America and Australia. What we are seeing is a war of annihilation against Judaism and the Jewish people. And behind that is a war against the west from within the west, as expressed through what we might describe as its mass psychopathy moment. This is the west’s civilisational crisis.
"Biden administration
"At the most obvious and immediate level, the Iran-backed Hamas pogrom and the war against Israel are the result of American policy under the Biden administration and, previous to that, the Obama administration.
"So far, there has still been a muted and ambiguous response from America. There are persistent doubts that it will allow Israel to destroy Hamas. An existential war of self-defence — as in the Allies’ war against Nazi Germany — requires for its victory that the entire enemy population is regarded as hostile. Yet the Biden administration has been warning Israel to hold back its assault and to admit 'humanitarian' aid even though this will be appropriated by Hamas, and even though weapons are likely to be smuggled in among the aid trucks.
"The question is why these Democrat administrations are so keen to appease rather than fight and defeat tyranny.
"This liberal mindset is a bottomless and lethal delusion. It is largely why the US has remained hell-bent upon 'negotiating' with Iran. And it’s why, even now, President Joe Biden is insisting 'what comes next has to be a two-state solution…a path towards peace'.
"This is deluded on two grounds. The first is that the issue behind the battle with Hamas is the non-existence of a state of Palestine. This is asinine. The issue is Iran’s genocidal war to destroy Israel and murder Jews, an aim that Hamas fully shares.
"The second delusion is the belief — so evident in the Biden administration — that there are the 'bad' Palestinians of Hamas and the 'good' Palestinians of the Palestinian Authority (PA) under Mahmoud Abbas.
"This distinction is false. The PA’s tactics may be different from Hamas but its aim is the same. The PA wants the destruction of Israel, as anyone can see from its maps of 'Palestine' which consists of the whole of Israel; it has said repeatedly that a Palestine state is a means to that end in its 'strategy of stages'; and it teaches its children that their highest calling is to murder Jews and steal all their land including Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Haifa. Moreover, Abbas’s role model is the Nazis’ Middle Eastern ally, Haj Amin al Husseini, who promised Hitler that if he won the war al Husseini would exterminate every Jew in the Middle East.
"A Palestine state would mean importing Gaza into the heart of Israel."
She also discusses victim culture:
"Under the dogma of identity politics, victim status gives 'powerless' (and therefore morally pure) groups defined by race, ethnicity, sexuality or gender a free pass for their misdeeds, for which their 'oppressors' are blamed instead.
"Accordingly, no criticism can be made of Muslims; those who do so are promptly accused of 'Islamophobia'. According to this mindset, Islamic terrorism or extremism has nothing whatever to do with Islam; it is instead caused by poverty, discrimination, marginalisation and so forth.
"This failure to understand the theological driver of Islamic extremism, whose aim is to Islamise the world and defeat modernity as a source of evil that threatens Islam, means in turn a failure to grasp the Islamists’ belief that modernity is driven by the Jews who they believe are the prime source of evil in the world."
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In her next to last paragraph, she all but predicted Biden's so-called National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia". And right now, Blinken is in Israel, again trying to pressure Netanyahu into a 'pause' that can only hurt Israel and strengthen Hamas. The answer is no!
Melanie Phillips gets it right, every time.
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