On the first day of the barbaric Palestinian attack on Israel, when fighting was still happening on its territory and the news was chaotic and contradictory, I responded to journalists‘ questions by saying that Israel, in my opinion, would handle the situation and come out stronger from the crisis despite the painful loss of human lives. At the same time, I also clearly stated that it must act quickly, as the terrorists‘ supporters would not want to give it too much time to defend itself. And that the support, which initially, especially after the uncovering of Palestinian atrocities against civilians, seemed quite unequivocal, wouldn’t last too long. A week at most. How wrong I was at that time.
A strange coalition of neo-Nazis, often extreme leftists, conscientious journalists, progressive students, and their deluded professors, ecological and LGBTQ activists did not miss a day to shamelessly start portraying the attacker – the Palestinians – as the victim, and the victim, this time and in this case unequivocally the victim, that is Israel, as the attacker. For the groups I just listed, this should not come as a surprise, but what utterly disgusted me was a similar reaction from people and institutions that one could perceive, despite many reservations, as those still representing civilization. Public and liberal media, the European Commission, a number of politicians from democratic countries… the list would be long. Maybe, before I continue, I should clarify why I talk about Palestinian terror, not Hamas. After having the opportunity to watch videos made by the attackers and to familiarize myself in detail with their planning and structure, I will not talk about the terror of Hamas, or perhaps its political wing, as people can still learn from some European media today. And I will leave aside the British BBC, which is still presented to us in the debate about public media as an unreachable model, and whose reporting today would probably make Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, happy. It was simply Palestinian terror, committed by a wide range of terrorist and criminal groups, starting with Islamists and ending with Palestinian communists. This terror was broadly supported by Palestinian „innocent“ civilians, including women, children, local employees of venerable institutions such as various UN organizations, or „journalists“ from many Western media, from the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. So, just as we talk about Germany and its guilt for terror against Jews, Roma, homosexuals, or people of inferior races and cultures since 1945, I will talk about Palestinian terror in the same way.
It’s also necessary to clarify what a terrorist attack is, because evidently, a lot of people „are quite lost“ in this regard. To quote: „Terrorism is the use of violence or the threat of violence to intimidate the opponent and achieve political (or political-religious) goals. The targets of terrorist actions are usually civilians.“ And here is the crucial difference, Palestinians primarily attack civilians, and only if they encounter soldiers, they engage with them too. The Israeli army primarily attacks armed terrorists, and sometimes unfortunately causes casualties among civilians, often because the Palestinian armed fighters use them as human shields. This in no way diminishes the tragedy of their victims, but it’s always necessary to clearly add that these are victims of the leaders of Palestinian terrorist and criminal groups. They decided their fate because they intentionally surround themselves with them and with great fondness place their military installations in their vicinity. Often with the tacit consent, or at least deep silence of many humanitarian organizations operating there. The evidence from the last few weeks is more than enough, from rocket launch sites in schools to terrorist command centers under hospitals. In this context, I am fascinated by how, in the course of uncritically adopting information from terrorists, which have been shown to be false not only in this conflict but also in many past ones, often reports on alleged Israeli attacks on civilians and civilian targets, while completely ignoring the constant rocket attacks by Palestinians on Israel, which are exclusively aimed at civilian targets, including schools and hospitals. And this has been happening not just in the days after October 7th, but for many years. Many years without any reaction from the international community. Unless considering the increase in financial and material support for Palestinian terrorists for the production of new rockets and the construction of new tunnels for their storage, which the European Commission so likes to practice, as a reaction.
By the way, speaking of victims and rockets, two notes. To date, some 9,500 Palestinian rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza. According to credible data, they have about a 10 to 12% failure rate, meaning they fall within the Gaza Strip itself. Thus, the Palestinians have fired at least 1,100 rockets at themselves. This was also the case with a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad, which landed in the parking lot in front of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where it had the capacity to kill at most a lower number of victims. Again, with all due respect to the innocent victims, it’s always necessary to remember, they are victims of the Palestinians, not the Israeli army. And here I get to the second part of my note. And that is the absolutely absurd inflation of the number of victims on the Palestinian side in the Gaza Strip. That these completely absurd numbers are published by terrorists is one thing, that they are uncritically adopted by Western media and politicians is something that I am not entirely sure whether to attribute to malice or direct collaboration with terrorists. We live in a time when the information war, given the speed of information dissemination, is becoming increasingly powerful, and at this moment, I would expect more sobriety from the media and people who shape public opinion. Unfortunately, once stated numbers, despite later clarifications, become the only „truth“ and in the eyes of the terrorists‘ supporters, they are meant to cover up the bestiality with which civilians were tortured and killed in Israel. And again, Palestinians there did not only kill Jews but also Arabs, and yes, even Palestinians. By the way, that „good and moderate“ part of the Palestinians, as the Palestinian Authority government, which governs the West Bank, is described, pays cash bonuses and pensions to those who murder any Israeli, whether a soldier or a civilian, Jew or Muslim. And they pay out of their budget, i.e., with money that is largely provided by the European Union. From the money that its individual member states borrow on debt.
However, I am not here to defend Israel. I think it can defend itself, and over the course of its existence, it has repeatedly found that the world is only interested in it when it manages to defend itself. Until the times it was losing wars, the world always looked the other way. What is worth commenting on today’s situation is the incredible degree of hypocrisy and blindness displayed especially by Europe, for which I vainly try to find some logical explanation. It probably doesn’t make much sense to comment on Lebanon, once a wealthy and flourishing country, which was devastated by the Palestinians, and which today complains to the UN about the Israeli attack. The attack consists of the fact that after Hezbollah, a terrorist movement that has created its own state within a state on part of Lebanon, and from which it has long been shelling and terrorizing Israel, again fired several missiles. Israel dared to return fire. Lebanon, a country partially occupied by terrorists from Hezbollah, does not complain about its occupant but about someone who defends against it. It’s not worth commenting much on Amnesty International, once an organization defending human rights, today the rights of thugs. I can’t help but remember its criticism of Ukraine for daring to defend its cities against Russian aggression and calling on the Ukrainian army to leave the cities and fight only in open terrain. Oddly, I have not heard any similar call from it to Palestinian terrorists. On the contrary, only its persistent criticism of Israel. That Israel, which always warned people in the area in advance of its attacks in the past, and even in the ongoing conflict still mostly does so beforehand. It’s not much worth commenting on Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), whom we remember for lying to the world during the covid pandemic and who lies even today when he exaggerates the numbers of victims published by Palestinian terrorists themselves.
On the other hand, what makes sense to comment on are the words and actions of politicians and public opinion makers in Europe and the United States. That is, in countries where we live and which have a direct impact on our lives. And it is indeed very sad. We are still witnessing clinging to some imaginary Palestinians, who long to live in peace, and who do not support or even condemn the burning of Jewish infants or the slashing of pregnant women. Following this false belief, the European Commission under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen will unleash another round of subsidy orgies, which, as always in the past, will end up mostly in the hands of terrorists. In a better case, in the hands of their leaders in luxury residences and private jets. It is truly painful that the European Commission has never even hinted at linking the continuation of financial aid to Palestinians with the obligation to release hostages held in the Gaza Strip, especially when a large part of them are citizens of the European Union countries.
If our political leaders want to know the true free opinion of Palestinians on how they imagine peaceful coexistence not only with Jews but also with us, they do not need to go to the Gaza Strip (where many hypocrites excuse lynching scenes by saying that Palestinian civilians have no choice but to participate in them, because otherwise Hamas would punish them), just look at the streets of European cities, in refugee camps on European territory. That is, to places where they can express themselves completely freely. And they do so. They dance in the streets and hand out sweets to passersby to celebrate the bestial torture of infants, proudly march in our cities with flags of Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Islamic State. On the days when we commemorate the memory of our ancestors, who laid down their lives in wars, they destroy the flags of countries that welcomed them and enabled them to live a life they could not even dream of in their countries of origin. They repaint the monuments of our heroes, and on the day of remembering their sacrifices, they organize a show of force in London, in the capital of the country that was at the beginning of Veterans Day. And they do so with the assistance of the police, which protects the conquerors and harasses and restricts those who have borne the costs of welcoming these, as their advocates claimed, „quiet and grateful“ people all their lives. Instead of a clear and harsh condemnation, we are just witnesses to frightened scurrying and clucking, in an effort not to offend anyone by any means. It probably won’t surprise much that one of the first to raise the jester’s cap was the world champion in phone calls with dictators – French President Emmanuel Macron. Instead of addressing the fact that a large part of the „children of the republic,“ as he often referred to rampaging youths from immigrant communities in the past, actually wants to destroy equality, freedom, fraternity in his country, because these words mean absolutely nothing to them. And in his speech, he again lectured Israel on how to conduct military operations.
It’s time to finally admit that people waving Palestinian flags are not interested in any fair resolution of the situation in the Middle East, nor do they care about the lives of civilians in third-world countries. After all, massacres of civilians occur every day, in Syria, in Sudan, in Kurdistan, in Iran, in Somalia, and I could list many more, and no one, nowhere demonstrates in the streets because of them.
It’s time to admit that these are not demonstrations for something. It’s a demonstration of power, and that these people never wanted to integrate into our culture and accept our civilizational customs, that their goal is our subjugation to their barbaric way of life.
What can we do? Definitely enforce our existing laws. Rigorously suppress any manifestations of intolerance, not only towards Jews but also towards ourselves. Stop constantly apologizing for the alleged sins of our ancestors and on that basis give barbarians a stick with which they can metaphorically beat us over the heads. It’s necessary to admit, and also act accordingly, that not all cultures are the same and that they can always, under any circumstances, live together on one territory without problems. It is necessary, in accordance with the law, to stop massive illegal migration, to stop financing the business associated with this trade in human misery, and it is necessary to return people who want to establish a different culture here, to where such culture is a normal part of life.
And from this follows only one thing. That if we don’t start pushing the people we elected to start doing what they should, we will soon be in the position of real refugees ourselves.
©2024 Milan Mikulecký. Všechna práva jsou vyhrazena.