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The October 7 Jihad: A Test for the West

(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Dan Diker - Oct. 7 destroyed the myth that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was political in nature and solvable by territorial compromise. Demonstrations in the West celebrating Hamas's atrocities represent symptoms of a deeper civilizational crisis. Demonstrators chanting in favor of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, while demonizing America's steadfast democratic ally, is a result of American universities' systematic undermining of support for the U.S.-Israel alliance through post-colonialist frameworks. The speed with which American institutions mobilized to justify Hamas's atrocities revealed how deeply the "globalize the intifada" strategy had penetrated Western societies. An Israeli victory over Hamas constitutes an American victory over an axis of anti-Western adversaries determined to capture and reshape the Middle East and the international order. The ideological threat to Israel and the U.S.-led Western alliance - and the West's response to it - will determine whether the liberal international order survives. The writer is president of the Jerusalem Center.
2025-10-09 00:00:00
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