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FROM AN ITALIAN NEWSPAPER OPED
IL
FOGLIO OP-ED:ON THE CONFLICT IN GAZA
Israel
Holds the Free
World's
Destiny in Her
Hands
These
stubborn
Israeli Jews
are alone -
alone in
resisting in a
battle for all
of us.
Giulio
Meotti
Published:
Sunday, July
20, 2014 12:45
AM
The
people of
Israel are
valiant, going
about their
daily lives
knowing that
Muslim killers
might explode
a bomb or
rocket in any
public place
at any time.
Even
more valiant
are the
Israeli
soldiers, who
are now
fighting
inside Gaza,
house by
house, spied
on by cruel
eyes, hated by
old and young,
targeted by
beheaders,
longed for by
their
families.
These lone
Jews fighting
in a long
night hold the
free world's
destiny in
their hands.
The world is burning with jealousy of Israel and what it achieved for its people in a mere 65 years.
These
stubborn
Israeli Jews
are alone -
alone in
resisting in a
battle for all
of us. It has
been
calculated
that since the
year of the
founding of
the state,
more than
60,000 rockets
have fallen on
Israel. The
Israelis are
victimized and
they are
alone,
abandoned by
the world —
now, just as
then.
In
the Second
World War,
hope didn't
come from the
Western avant
garde, but
from the Jews
who rebelled
against
tyranny. The
same is
happening
today
Open
any Western
newspaper and
you will read
about the
trendy Israeli
life under
Hamas'
rockets, life
as usual,
while the
Arabs die. No
mention of
Israel as the
most heavily
bombed nation
in the world.
No mention of
the trauma
inflicted on
two
generations of
Jewish
children.
Israel
is the first
line of
Western
defense in the
battle for
non-Muslim
survival and
prosperity in
the world. And
now that the
Jews are
running for
shelters and
employing
their
brilliant Iron
Dome, the
world is
burning with
jealousy of
Israel and
what it
achieved for
its people in
a mere 65
years.
For
the UN, for
the Christian
bodies, for
the White
House, for the
European
Union, for the
complacent
public opinion
and its
journalistic
sentinels, an
independent
Jewish State
bearing the
name “Israel,”
with Jerusalem
as its
capital, a
renewal of
life in the
land of the
Bible, a vital
Jewish people
restored after
2,000 years to
its own holy
land, has
raised
unresolved
questions and
disturbing
conclusions.
The
Israelis are a
very special
people because
they know how
to live in the
present and
make this
present worth
living, while
the West has
drained its
peoples' souls
and made their
lives
meaningless,
with only
shallow-minded
hedonism and
materialism
remaining.
This is why
Gentiles often
hate the Jews.
The
sagacious
American
author Eric
Hoffer gave
voice to the
most tragic
Holocaust-related
20th-century
truth: "I have
a premonition
that will not
leave me, as
it goes with
Israel so will
it go with all
of us".
A
peaceful and
unique nation
like Israel
and its people
have to resort
to violent
means to
survive. My
heart breaks
for them.
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