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Israel Stands with the World's Democracies Against Those Who Seek to Destroy Western Civilization
(New York Post) Yossi Cohen - As someone who's devoted a lifetime to the defense of my country, I take pride in understanding the nature of threats facing Israel and countering them covertly, powerfully and preemptively around the globe. The State of Israel must win any conflict it enters. The Jewish people have no alternative. We have no other homeland, no other refuge but the State of Israel. When I hear demonstrators chant, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," I am compelled to ask: Where exactly do they suggest we go? Most of them have never set foot in Israel. Many deny the atrocities of Oct. 7. They ignore the hundreds of thousands of victims who have perished at the hands of those with extremist ideologies who suppress women's rights, execute men for being gay, use hospitals as their military base and wield children as human shields. Despite these threats, Israel will continue to thrive. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the world's democracies, bound together by shared values of freedom, dignity and human rights. No slogan shouted by the ignorant and no act of violence will divert us from those values. What the protesters fail to recognize is that the real danger is not Israel. The real danger is posed by murderous regimes that seek to destroy not only the Jewish people but also the very foundations of Western civilization. They threaten you, the reader, simply because you believe in democracy and the values that form the Free World. The writer is a former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.