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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/fight-for-the-living-buried-alive/
After Oct. 7, Nothing Can Ever Be the Same
(Times of Israel) Eylon Levy - There is no future for the Jewish People or the State of Israel in a world in which an army of terror can reduce whole families to human ash and get away with it. No future if Hamas emerges free and emboldened to do it again, as the hate parades through London want it to emerge from this war it started. And so we fight, not because we want to, but because we must. We don't want the world's sympathy. Israel exists because we're sick of its tears. We demand the world's respect because we are doing exactly what they would do if subjected to such a barbaric assault. People respect you when you stand up for yourself, stand up against the bullies. Oct. 7 brought out the worst of our enemies and the best of us. It shone a light on a nation of everyday heroes, who drove into the fire to rescue strangers from slaughter. Jewish history has always been about the courage to do what's right. To be the dissidents who look around the world and say: "This is crazy!" Be part of this moment of togetherness, this moment of global Jewish solidarity. The fight against Hamas is not just Israel's fight. It is humanity's fight against barbarism. After Oct. 7, nothing can ever be the same again. Never forgive. Never forget. Never again. The writer, an Israeli Government spokesman, gave this speech at a rally in support of Israel and in solidarity with the Israeli hostages, in London's Trafalgar Square on January 14, 2024.