Mick Davis claims that the current Israeli Government is alienating its friends around the world. A friend is one who supports you in need; however immediately after Oct 7, before the blood dried on the ground, before Israel reacted militarily to the Gazan atrocity, the crowds in London, in Paris, in New York, in the elite universities, virtually everywhere, were celebrating the Hamas ‘victory’. These are friends?
Davis claims that Israel was forced to take military action against the barbarous attack and expended political capital in doing so. Why does one need to expend political capital to do the obvious, the normal reaction of any other country in the world after being subjected to a terrorist attack against defenseless civilians, against babies in their cribs, against old and young?
The apparently interminable war has been prolonged primarily because Israel has been forced to fight with one hand tied behind its back. Why does the world insist that Israel must allow aid to enter Gaza, aid that falls immediately into the hands of the Hamas terrorists that rule Gaza, were elected by Gazans and supported by Gazans? Why can’t Israel be allowed to win?
Israel is fighting a war not only to defend Israel, but to defend Western civilization against barbarous Islamism. If Hamas remains in control of Gaza, that will be perceived as a Gazan victory and an Israeli defeat. The next victims will be elsewhere or anywhere in the Western world.
Davis claims that poll after poll show about 70% of Israelis would support a deal that brings the hostages home and ends the fighting. However, as this includes leaving Hamas in control I doubt that it would be accepted by most Israelis; it certainly would not pass muster amongst the young heroes who are doing the fighting.
Davis seems especially worked up about the proposal to tax contributions by foreign governments to NGOs operating in Israel. Once ‘non-government organizations’ receive money from governments they are by definition no longer NGOs. As the so called NGOs that receive money from foreign governments normally act against Israeli interests, I would ban them entirely, 80% is not enough. It is not an insult to Jewish philanthropists who are more than welcome to donate to those numerous charities that do not accept funds from the EU or other governments who have their own interests at heart. Money donated by foreign governments always has strings attached. One only has to see what damage the billions donated by Qatar to elite universities in the West has done.
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