Facing Down Evil

The October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks killed approximately 1,200 people in Israel. As of 2023, Israel’s population is about 9.5 million. To scale this to the US population (approximately 331 million), the toll would be equivalent to around 42,000 deaths if the same proportion of the population were killed in an attack on the United States. Does anybody believe the United States wouldn’t flatten the country that killed 42,000 of its citizens?

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis are proxies of Iran. What we see today is effectively a war between Israel and Iran. Israel must destroy Iran’s proxies to thwart Iran’s attempt at regional superiority. But more than this, the forces represent clerical fascism, a modern-day instantiation of nazism. By destroying its proxies, and by striking targets in Iran, Israel may be able to destabilize the regime and create the opportunity for the Persian people to overthrow the Islamic state and restore their once-great civilization. This would bring peace to the Middle East.

Ever since Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski stood by while the Islamic Revolution overtook Iran—meanwhile destabilizing Afghanistan by organizing a coup d’etat in Kabul—the Persian people have lived in darkness. The continuation of this darkness was facilitated by both the Obama and the Biden regimes. Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal (cover for a balance of power scheme) lifted sanctions and allowed Iran to access billions in frozen assets, which it used to fund its military and regional proxies. Biden has done the same.

The West can’t be both for and against Israel. The Islamist wants only one thing: the eradication of Jews everywhere. He will never seek peace because all he seeks is death. He teaches his children from birth to be martyrs. He hate the Jews so much that he forsakes his own offspring. This is not hatred over white settler colonialism and any of those other rationalizations. This is a religious hatred. Islamists see Jews as an evil to be wiped off the fact of the planet. This is an instantiation of collective psychopathy in the same way that the Nazis were driven by irrational hatred and loathing of the Jews.

Israel is facing down evil. There is no sides-choosing is circumstances such as these. There is no balance of power between good and evil. Israel is facing an existential threat. So goes Israel so goes the West. Islam is on the move. It must be resisted everywhere.