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| DATE | 2023-11-13 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Nikki Haley... op ed today
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nypost.com
Nikki Haley: DC March for Israel flags key truth — the West now faces a
moral test
Nikki Haley
5–6 minutes
In a just world, there would be no need for Tuesday’s “March for Israel”
in Washington.
Yet the past month has made clear many in the Western world are flirting
with injustice and, worse, outright supporting evil.
We need to remind ourselves of what we as a civilization stand for —
and, just as important, what we stand against.
The March for Israel will be in stark contrast with the countless
protests that have swept college campuses and major American and
European cities.
In those protests, supposedly educated people and elite voices have
tried to justify Hamas’ barbaric Oct. 7 attack on Israel in which babies
were beheaded and parents murdered in front of their children.
Students and citizens of free countries have loudly called for Israel’s
obliteration, declaring that its attempts to defeat a terrorist enemy
are acts of “oppression” and “colonialism.”
This is blatant antisemitism, but it’s also more: It’s an outright
assault on the bedrock principles of Western civilization.
Those who criticize Israel are either willfully blind or easily misled.
Nikki Haley
Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley writes that “when you
encourage antisemitism, you end up with calamity.”
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They must not realize Israel protects the rights of its Jewish and Arab
citizens alike, while Hamas denies freedom to all in Gaza.
They must not understand Israel respects human dignity, while Hamas
sentences gays and lesbians to prison and even death.
And they don’t see Israel goes to great lengths to protect civilians,
while the terrorists deliberately put innocent Palestinians in harm’s
way, using them as human shields and abusing their deaths for propaganda.
It’s bad enough to hear statements of equivocation about Israel and Hamas.
It’s far worse to hear some Americans and Europeans say Israel is the enemy.
In a battle between good and evil, there is no room for such moral
confusion.
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It inevitably has real-world consequences.
We’re already seeing assaults on Jews in America and Europe.
Vandals are targeting Jewish businesses and synagogues.
History shows where this road leads. When you encourage antisemitism,
you end up with calamity.
And when you dehumanize one group of people, whether Jews or otherwise,
you wind up encouraging atrocities against anyone.
For generations, when we in the West talked about the Holocaust, we
boldly declared: “Never again.”
Now we must prove we meant it by helping Israel defeat those who would
do it again.
America, Europe and every civilized nation must give Israel everything
it needs to eliminate Hamas, which has promised to never rest in the
slaughter of Jews.
There can be no cease-fire. Letting terrorists go guarantees they’ll
perpetrate another Oct. 7 — or worse.
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But victory on the battlefield is only part of the solution.
We must root out the moral cancer that has crept into our own society.
In its place, we must regain the strength that comes with clarity —
specifically, we need clarity on the truth of our principles and the
nature of the enemies who threaten us.
The future of Western civilization depends on us recognizing evil and
confronting it with good.
This is why the United States must stand with Israel.
But Israel is not the only place in which civilization is challenged today.
In Iran, Russia and Communist China, we face an unholy alliance that
gladly sacrifices innocent civilians for the sake of domination.
These regimes seek to destroy freedom and spread tyranny.
Their ultimate goal is to destroy America.
If we lack the courage to defend freedom or distinguish between good and
evil, our enemies will win. First in their own backyard and eventually
in ours.
We in the West face a great moral test. Whether we pass it will
determine our civilization’s survival.
We can either unite once again around the timeless principles of human
dignity and freedom or we can reject them in favor of passing fads and
the pursuit of power, which paradoxically weakens us.
A look at college campuses suggests we are closer to making the wrong
choice than at any point in the past century, yet there’s still time to
remember who we are and what we stand for.
It will be on full display in Tuesday’s March for Israel.
For the United States, as the leader of the free world, must always
stand for civilization over barbarism.
Nikki Haley is a Republican candidate for president. She was US
ambassador to the United Nations and governor of South Carolina.
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