If I asked you, “What is the most pressing political issue across the West today?” You might think it is an open question with countless possible answers. But it isn’t. There is only one correct answer: mass migration. It is a problem that has ravaged Europe and Canada, and, to a lesser extent, the United States.
In his speech at the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu justified Israel’s actions against its enemies, slammed his critics for committing the very crimes they accuse him of committing, and celebrated the Jewish state’s victories against jihadists across the Middle East. And yet, he seems to have held back.
Netanyahu seems to understand that, like President Reagan famously said, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” So how do we go on the offensive without explaining ourselves, when Israeli advocacy abroad is referred to in Israel as “Hasbara?” (Which literally means “to explain”- a defensive posture, or one that implies wrongdoing).
2+In the three years since October 7, more than a dozen countries have recognized a ‘Palestinian’ state. They did so not because the ‘Palestinians’ took any meaningful step toward peaceful coexistence with Israel, but because they wanted to pressure Israel to cease its war against radical Islam.
Liberal leaders in the West attempt to boss Israel around on how it should deal with radical Muslims while simultaneously surrendering their own countries to those same radical Muslims.
That should have been Netanyahu’s message.
2+He should have directed his criticism not merely at the falsehoods echoed by Israel’s geopolitical opponents, but at the political assumptions underlying them. He should have made clear to their own constituents that their misconceptions about Israel are rooted in an incorrect understanding of politics altogether, and that this distorted worldview is ultimately damaging their own societies.
If that sounds a little abstract, let me give a concrete example:
When the Israeli government passed the death penalty for terrorists law on March 30 of this year, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was livid. Yet less than a week earlier, his government had executed 25-year-old Noelia Castillo, a Spanish citizen who claims to have been gang-raped by migrants, through what was described as an “assisted suicide”—part of a policy that has been implemented across the West in recent years. The state completely failed Castillo, whose family reportedly attempted to help her and met with resistance from the Spanish government.
The contrast is difficult to ignore.
Israel voted to execute violent assailants. Countries like Spain, by contrast, invite them in—and when they inevitably end up hurting members of the local community, the liberal government executes the victims instead.
The same argument can be made about the rape-gang cover-up in the United Kingdom, whose Labour government chose to sanction Israel just weeks ago. The same goes for France, Australia, Canada, and numerous other Western countries.
Netanyahu actually made a version of this argument to the Iranian people. He pointed out that their tyrannical regime’s greatest fear is not Israel or the United States, but its own people.
And he was right, but the same can be said of Western leaders.
2+Carney, Burnham, or Macron are terrified of their own people discovering the truth about how damaging their policies have been to their own societies. If they believe they have the right to criticize Israel for its policies toward “Palestinian” jihadists, then Netanyahu has every right to criticize the policies they have imposed on their own citizens.
In a culture driven not by the truth but by ‘vibes’, where most of our education comes from reels on social media instead of books, President Reagan’s words are truer than ever. The referendum should not be placed on Israel but on the world leaders for whom Israel has become a scapegoat to be used as a distraction from their own failures.
When Netanyahu walked up to the podium to address the General Assembly, the mass walkout of Muslim and leftist representatives was followed by chants from his supporters of “Am Yisrael Chai,” with the Israeli delegation looking delighted.
Something was fitting about that moment.While much of the West commits what can only be described as civilizational suicide through mass migration, euthanasia, abortion, and childlessness, the world’s only Jewish country has taken a different path.
The people of Israel live – Am Yisrael Chai.