Christians & Jews, United with Israel

"You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.” ~ Surat Al-Mā’idah Verse No. 51

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.” ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali activist and author of Infidel who was raised to hate Jews and Christians and is now a Christian.

Yesterday and today, South Africa laid out its case at the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Over 80% of countries in the world voted for a ceasefire. A number of those countries actually are committing genocide at this moment. Every Christian should stand with Israel against genocide.

This war was started by Hamas, and they are the ones responsible for the horrific deaths of their own people as well at the slaughtered Israelis from October 7th.

For perspective on the accusation of Israel committing genocide, here’s a chart of civilians killed in the war in Gaza compared to a few other recent battles in the region.

At the time of these former battles, President Obama called for “rooting out a cancer like ISIL." Where were the protests? Where were the crowds screaming genocide?

Below is a map of the current UN vote. Blue is in favor of a ceasefire. Black abstained. Purple against. Gray no data.

Get a magnifying glass and find Israel on the map. You will see how tiny it is.

Israel’s one main supporter stands out. The United States, the most powerful country in the world.

A nation founded, for all its faults, on Christian values; values that we are being told are shameful and that we should reject. Mind you, I do not say Christian religion, because we are a nation that believes in religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and this is one of the most important reasons why people of all faiths who have been persecuted elsewhere come to America. To be free to worship as they please.

Think for a moment, if the United States ceased to support Israel, how long would it be before we saw the real meaning of genocide. Hamas and all other Islamic extremists have made no secret of their intent to never stop fighting until every Jew is exterminated.

If I dare to say this is a battle between good and evil, I am scoffed at by some. But many others tell me they now believe in evil.

What Hamas did on October 7th is Satanic. Everyone who calls themselves a Christian should recognize this in their soul. Every Christian should understand why Israel is fighting back and should stand with her.

A hostage from the October 7th massacre triumphantly shown off in Gaza

If you are brave enough to look evil in the eye, this thread on X documents evidence allowed to be viewed of the October 7 Massacre. But that isn’t even looking evil in the eye, only a reflection. No one reading this was there, experiencing it. Few know what it is like to live every day with wolves beating against the gates, just waiting to do it again and again. You can watch the video HERE. Viewer discretion advised.

To further help you on your way through this essay, you might listen to the words of Egyptian Muslim activist Dalia Ziada:

“I will not stop condemning Hamas and the radical Islamist organizations and fight them and those who stand behind them. Even if they are powerful countries, I will continue to fight them because that’s what I believe.”

It is difficult for Westerners to comprehend the courage required for Ziada (a woman, no less) to take this stand. Knowing that Egypt along with the entire Islamic world would call for her death, she did it anyway.

After speaking out in support of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, which she says benefits the entire region, Ziada was forced to flee Egypt and go into hiding. I will have more to say about her in my essay chronicling my own story of living in Egypt. But for now, perhaps her words will keep a few of those who would have stopped reading in disgust, accusing me of supporting “genocide”, continuing on a bit longer.

Not only across far off countries but within the United States, there is a powerful force hellbent on destroying traditional Judeo-Christian values.

Conservative Christians have always supported Israel. For that, we must be demonized. Turned into white supremacist domestic terrorists threatening to take away everyone’s freedoms. While Jews, or rather Zionists, have now been labeled Nazis and thrown into the same pot with conservative Christians. This shouldn’t be surprising. Both are a threat to the spread of Islamic extremism.

Most of my readers know by now that my dad was a prominent Christian author and public speaker. I spent many hours in “meetings” learning about the end times and how the nations of the world would gather against Israel. Again, you can scoff all you want at such “conspiracy theories” but look at the map one more time and tell me if that isn't what’s happening right now.

It would take a book to write about the End Times, and my dad wrote a lot of those as well as videos. A lot of the prophesies we don’t understand (or I sure don’t), and we don’t have to agree on all of it. On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, we should pay better attention. It wouldn’t hurt to read the Bible verses, to see what they say. There are hundreds of prophecies in both the Old and the New Testament. Here are a few verses from the New Testament that those who support Israel can take to heart:

All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. ~ Matthew 24:8-13

This essay is a plea to Christians to wake up and speak out in support of Israel. To get back to what the Bible teaches. To be bold. Yes, you will be hated. Yes, people will even want you dead. There is nothing unusual about this. Just look at history.

But you don’t have to look at history. Persecution of Christians is happening now, and nobody seems to care about that very much.

On Christmas morning, while people in the Western world were celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christians in Nigeria were being massacred by jihadists in a brutal attack that left 160 dead and some 500 wounded.

No one protested this. Rather, in New York on Christmas Day hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters flooded the streets carrying a blood-covered mock Nativity scene while chanting, "Christmas is canceled here."

Along with chanting the cancelation of Christmas, protesters shouted, "Long live the intifada," and "NYPD KKK, IDF they’re all the same".

In Chicago, pro-Palestinian protestors shut down Chicago Interstate.

In both Los Angeles and New York, pro-Palestinian protestors blocked airport access roads.

Christmas was even canceled in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus. In 1950, Bethlehem and the surrounding villages were 86 percent Christian. But by 2016, the Christian population had fallen to just 12 percent.

Propaganda began flooding the internet that Jesus was not even Jewish but Palestinian. It was left to the Israeli government to set the record straight with a Christmas Day tweet saying Jesus was Jewish and born in Judea.

Our nation’s self-hate and the demonization of Judeo-Christian values while justifying those of the enemy started a long time ago. Or rather, that battle has always existed. But we can say it went into overdrive within the last few years with the media feeding us on a constant diet of white supremacy fearmongering.

Like this 2020 CNN article warning that “White supremacy is the ‘most lethal threat’ to the US”. We were told repeatedly that it was no longer Islamic terrorists we needed to worry about, it was white supremacist Americans. Forget ISIS, forget Hamas, white Americans, and specifically conservative white Christians were the new terrorists. Christian parents daring to question woke ideology being fed to their kids at school were classified as domestic terrorists to be investigated by the FBI. This was especially problematic when concerned parents of differing faiths, including Muslims, joined together in a common cause. Those inter-faith alliances between moderates that could have grown stronger have now, clearly, been destroyed.

A 2021 Politico article It’s Time to Talk About Violent Christian Extremism, warned how for too long “the U.S. government has been engaging with faith leaders in Muslim communities at home and around the world in an attempt to stamp out extremism and prevent believers vulnerable to radicalization from going down a path that leads to violence” But now, things were different. It was time for “a new wave of outreach to religious communities, this time aimed at evangelical Christians”.

The term “Christian nationalism” was introduced as “a huge theme throughout evangelical Christendom”. In fact, if you were a “proud American Christian”, you know, one of those white middle-America guys (from those despised “fly-over states”) driving a big truck with an American flag, you were probably an insurrectionist.

Songs like Jason Aldean’s Try That In A Small Town created a big ruckus. All those folks who wanted to defend their towns must be fascist insurrectionists.

He sang about those “fly-over states”. Check out the lyrics. Here’s a verse:

They've never drove through Indiana
Met the man who plowed that earth, planted that seed
Busted his ass for you and me
Or caught a harvest moon in Kansas
They'd understand why God made those flyover states

I will never forget years ago, when I was president of InsideOUT Writers, the creative writing program I started for incarcerated youth in Los Angeles, lots of liberals were involved (I eschew labels but would have thought of myself as more of a liberal than conservative back then) and they used to make jokes about those “fly-over states”. I never liked it, and I called them out for it. Looking back, I realize it was rebellious actions like that that made me increasingly isolated from the pack.

“Like, you had the Christian flag and the American flag at the front of the church, and if you went to a Christian school, you pledged allegiance to the Christian flag and the American flag.” So Elizabeth Neumann, a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security, described in a derisive manner the dangerous Americans you had to watch out for.

Please note how any Jew who is a Zionist, (that would be those who believe in the right of Israel to exist), is now demonized in the exact same manner. If you display an Israeli flag, you are more loyal to Israel than to America. None of it makes any sense. Anyone displaying a Palestinian flag is not accused of the same thing. And remember, it was only a couple of years ago when people were expected to display a BLM flag.

Haaretz writer Yossi Klein accused religious Zionists of being “more dangerous than Hezbollah, more than drivers in car-ramming attacks or girls with scissors (referring to a stabbing terror attack by a Palestinian teenage girl). The Arabs can be neutralized, but they cannot. What do they want? To rule the country and cleanse it of Arabs.”

Look at the map again. This is an absurdity. It is Hamas that publicly calls for the “annihilation” of the Jewish people, with Shieks like Hamad Al-Regeb as just one of countless examples, praying, “Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the Jews. Paralyze them, destroy their entity. Oh Allah, enable us to get to the necks of the Jews.” You can see and hear it for yourself HERE

Incredibly, it is conservative Christians and Jews who are being accused of ethnic cleansing and wanting to “rule” the world. They are the terrorists we need to worry about. Not Hamas. Not Hezbollah. Not ISIS.

You might recall how former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick never stopped ranting:

“Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries… we reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all.”

Now it’s Newsweek claiming Israel’s “Dehumanization, Lack of Empathy for Palestinians Is Alarming”.

During Covid (an event that further divided the country between the virtuous ‘vaxxed’ and the unclean ‘unvaxxed’) “outraged citizens tore down, toppled, or defaced monuments of well-known historic figures associated with colonialism, slavery, racism, and imperialism”.

The same MO is being used in pro-Palestinian protests, like this one where “pro-Palestinian protesters defaced a veterans’ cemetery in Los Angeles, spray-painting ‘Free Gaza’.

Islamic terrorists have morphed into “freedom fighters” while disdain for historic Judeo-Christian values is rampant, especially among our youth. Young people are targeted by publications like Teen Vogue claiming: The Second Ku Klux Klan: How It Gained Social and Political Power Among White Protestants.

A 2020 New York Times article informed us:

Ten years ago, white supremacy frequently described the likes of the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke, the neo-Nazi politician from Louisiana. Now it cuts a swath through the culture, describing an array of subjects: the mortgage lending policies of banks; a university’s reliance on SAT scores as a factor for admissions decisions; programs that teach poor people better nutrition; and a police department’s enforcement policies.

In England, the British National Library’s Decolonising Working Group cautioned employees that a belief in “color blindness” or the view that “mankind is one human family” are examples of “covert white supremacy.”

That’s right. If you uphold a high standard in education, you’re a white supremacist. If you dare encourage anyone except rich people to be healthy, you’re a white supremacist. And wow, if you talk about mankind as “one human family”, that’s the worst.

Biden reiterated this warning just seven months ago at Howard University where he told the graduating class, “White supremacy … is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland.”

He called it one of the “oldest and most sinister of forces”, and how it “only hides under the rocks.”

The January 6th “insurrection” was another event that rocked the nation. Regardless of what you believe happened and who was behind it, we can now look back and see how it, too, has been used to turn the generalized “white supremacy” label into a more focused White Christian nationalist movement that uses “Christian language to cloak sexism and hostility to Black people and non-White immigrants in its quest to create a White Christian America”.

Meanwhile, it’s no accident that the demonization of Jews and Christians coincided with more illegal border crossings this year than any year, ever.

Since Biden’s inauguration, we now have over 10 million illegal border crossers, totaling more than the individual populations of 41 states. Since June of 2023, there has been an 86% increase in border crossings.

According to the government’s own report:

• In FY2023, 169 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry. 18 were apprehended in September alone.

• So far in FY2023, CBP has arrested 35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members. 

• In FY2023, CBP, including Air and Marine Operations, has seized 27,293 pounds of fentanyl, coming across the Southwest border—enough to kill more than 6 billion people.

It doesn’t take a Harvard grad (or maybe a Harvard grad is the last person to understand any of this) to figure out that if that many people are being stopped at the borders, there’s a whole lot more who are getting through. But woe to anyone concerned about this. You are a racist. A white supremacist. A Nazi.

Article after article made the completely irrational proposal that “it is beyond time to build a world without borders”.

Anita Yandel, who writes for the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, (remember, Columbia is one of those universities I talk about in The Age of Hypocrisy: Let's talk about 'stolen land'... that, ironically, was built on stolen Native American land) scolds us that we need to “open the borders, then abolish them”.

Yandel is a perfect example of arrogant and completely disconnected-from-reality Intelligentsia, envisioning a world where:

“Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law.”

Maybe it works like that in the ivory towers of academia, but not in the real world. In the real world, Israelis literally live under an Iron Dome that protects them from a constant barrage of rockets meant to kill civilians. Imagine, having to live under an IRON DOME, and then having people berate you for it. Yes, they protect their borders and we saw the horrific results on October 7th when they didn’t.

Funnily enough, Egypt and Jordan, feel the same about closed borders, even though many Palestinians came from those countries originally.

Below is Egypt's border with Gaza. I mean, talk about a wall…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II made it clear: “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.”

Arab nations claim they reject refugees because it would hinder Palestinians from having their own state. But the real reason, as Egyptian president El-Sissi says, is the fear “of militants flooding into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, from where they might launch attacks on Israel, endangering the two countries’ 40-year-old peace treaty”. Although he doesn’t say it out loud because it isn’t politically correct, a greater fear is of terrorists destabilizing his own country.

Why can’t we figure out these obvious facts? Why are we in the West so easily led to despise ourselves to the point where we elevate those who scream their intent to exterminate us, proudly proclaiming that they will not stop until they have accomplished their goal?

Most Jews understand this. They have lived under the threat of Islamic extremism all their lives. It’s Christians that need to wake up. Especially since—and this might surprise some people—Christianity is the world’s most persecuted religion. The majority of those who are persecuted live in Muslim countries.

Back in 2010, the Wall Street Journal gave this warning. It is just one of countless attacks over the years:

On Oct. 31, 2010, a dozen Islamist gunmen stormed the Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation, in Baghdad. Striking during a service, they butchered some 60 priests and worshipers, notionally in revenge for insults to Islam. Ghastly as that crime might be in its own right, atrocities of this kind are quite commonplace around the world. Mobs sack churches in Egypt, Nigerian suicide bombers target worshiping congregations, and Eritrea has its hellish concentration camps for Christians.

"Christians today indisputably are the most persecuted religious body on the planet. So widespread and systematic are the attacks that they amount to a global war.” writes John L. Allen Jr., author of The Global War on Christians and editor of the Catholic news website Crux.

Yes, a global war. A global war that we have paid little attention to, but we had better start now.

According to Pew Research Center: “The Muslim population is growing twice as fast as the overall population and is set to surpass Christians by 2060. While the world’s population is projected to grow 32% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 70%”.

The most obvious reason for this growth is that Muslims have more children than Christians. But there is another reason that no one talks about. If you are born Muslim, it is forbidden to leave the religion. If you do, you risk being killed. I know it’s hard for Westerners to believe this isn’t some kind of exaggeration or just some fringe ideology. It’s not. It’s widely accepted in Muslim countries. I know this firsthand because I heard it many times from the men of Luxor, Egypt.

It was also confirmed to me that women cannot marry non-Muslim men, but men can marry non-Muslim women. When I asked why, I was told men are leaders and women are followers. If a Muslim woman marries a Christian man, he will influence her to leave her religion and that cannot be allowed. But if a Christian woman marries a Muslim man, she is expected to convert. Or rather, revert—everyone was a Muslim to begin with, so you don’t convert, you revert back to what you always were before being led astray. Children will always be raised Muslim, there is no discussion about this. Men are sometimes encouraged to take non-Muslims as second wives because this is a way to spread Islam. Muslim men can have up to four wives. We also know it is quite acceptable for them to take women as prizes in war and keep them as slaves.

That is not to say that there aren’t progressive Muslims who don’t believe this. But we are talking about the vast majority of Muslims, living in countries where Sharia Law prevails. People can complain that the United States is a “Christian” nation, and I say, thank God for that. I reiterate, Christians still believe in the separation of church and state, that’s why all religions are welcome in the US and not in Muslim countries. Christians don’t have to be afraid to leave the church. They are free to make their own choices.

Relatives mourn during the funeral of victims killed in an attack on Coptic Christians in Minya Province, central Egypt on Friday. They were on a bus en route to a monastery when gunmen opened fire on them, killing at least 20 and injuring dozens. Credit...Mohamed Hossam/European Pressphoto Agency The New York Times

Worldwide persecution of Christians has only intensified over the years.

New York Times, 2017:

The wave of persecution [in Egypt] is so severe that some fear it may bring about the end of Christianity in the region where it was born two millenniums ago.

Persecution of Christians is 'coming close to genocide' in the Middle East, 2019:

Pervasive persecution of Christians, sometimes amounting to genocide, is ongoing in parts of the Middle East, and has prompted an exodus in the past two decades, according to a report commissioned by the British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt.

Millions of Christians in the region have been uprooted from their homes, and many have been killed, kidnapped, imprisoned and discriminated against, the report finds. It also highlights discrimination across south-east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and in east Asia – often driven by state authoritarianism.

“The inconvenient truth,” the report finds, is “that the overwhelming majority (80%) of persecuted religious believers are Christians”.

Nigeria is the deadliest country for Christians. Since 2009, more than 52,000 Christians have been butchered or hacked to death by militants from the Fulani, Boko Haram, and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). It is also the country with one of the biggest explosions in the population, set to unseat the US as the third most populace country in the world.

The Christian Post:

Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022… It also led the world in Christians abducted…, sexually assaulted or harassed, forcibly married or physically or mentally abused, and it had the most homes and businesses attacked for faith-based reasons.

After the attack on Christmas Day that I mentioned at the beginning of this essay, Osun cleric, Bishop Seun Adeoye, had this to say, urging Christians to rise up and defend themselves.

“Never fold your arms and allow agents of Satan to destroy you, your wives and your children. Please, rise up and fight back against these murderers.

“Plateau state killings, just like Benue and Kaduna states didn’t just begin, they have been occurring over the years….”

We ignore his warning at our peril, that these atrocities “didn’t just begin, they have been occurring over the years”.

Western mainstream media would not carry a warning like this. Goodness, “agents of Satan”? That’s just too extreme.

Instead of protests against the satanic killing of Christians and Jews and the spread of Islamic extremism, we have protests to “free” the Palestinians.

Oh, surely, they must mean free Palestinians from Hamas? No.

They mean free Palestinians from Israel.

Here are the 50 Countries where it was hardest to be a Christian in 2023

1. North Korea
2. Somalia
3. Yemen
4. Eritrea
5. Libya
6. Nigeria
7. Pakistan
8. Iran
9. Afghanistan
10. Sudan
11. India

360 million Christians live in nations with high levels of persecution or discrimination. That’s 1 in 7 Christians worldwide, including 1 in 5 believers in Africa, 2 in 5 in Asia, and 1 in 15 in Latin America. Islamic extremism continues to cause the most persecution (31 nations), especially in sub-Saharan Africa where Open Doors fears Nigeria will soon trigger “a vast humanitarian catastrophe” across the continent. Researchers also noted how China has increased digital restrictions and surveillance and is “forging a network of nations seeking to redefine human rights—away from universal standards and religious freedoms.”

We have seen that Nigeria is the number one country where Christians are persecuted. It is also a member of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC), one of the biggest supporters of South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel.

The OIC is the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN. It is a 57-member bloc of countries where Islam is the state religion and Muslims form the majority of the population. Why would any Westerner in their right mind, especially Christians, stand with these countries against Israel?

Just to give an idea of how extreme these Muslim countries are, let’s look at blasphemy laws.

You might have never heard of blasphemy laws, but they illustrate just how extreme Islam is in most of the world. Four-in-ten countries and territories worldwide had blasphemy laws in 2019.

Pew Research Center

Far from decreasing, Muslim countries are passing new blasphemy laws.

On Jan. 17, 2023, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which carries the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The new law now extends the punishment to those deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, with 10 years in prison or life imprisonment.

Of the 71 countries that criminalize blasphemy, 32 are majority Muslim. Punishment and enforcement of these laws vary.

Blasphemy is punishable by death in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania and Saudi Arabia…

Half of the world’s 49 Muslim-majority countries have additional laws banning apostasy, meaning people may be punished for leaving Islam. All countries with apostasy laws are Muslim-majority. Apostasy is often charged along with blasphemy.

…About 75% of respondents in Muslim-majority countries in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia favor making sharia, or Islamic law, the official law of the land…. around 25% in Southeast Asia, 50% in the Middle East and North Africa and 75% in South Asia say they support “executing those who leave Islam” – that is, they support laws punishing apostasy with death.

Christians are not the only ones being persecuted by Islamic extremists. To understand how all pervasive this mindset is, let’s take a look at the Kurds because, if anyone is experiencing genocide, it’s them.

The Kurds are the world’s largest nation without its own independent state. Unlike the Palestinians—who have no connection to historical identity and had “no national aspirations until the late 1960s when the organization founded by Yassar Arafat, Al-Fatah, began to control the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—the Kurds have a “unified and distinct culture (and possibly, ethnicity) by people inhabiting the Kurdish mountains dating back to the Halaf culture of 8,000-7,400 years ago”.

Some 30 million Kurds are scattered mostly across Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. They share a culture and language, and most are Sunni Muslim. But since the end of the first world war, all four countries have tried to suppress the Kurds’ culture and restricted the use of the Kurdish language. At times they have resorted to horrifying violence, such as when Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s then dictator, used nerve gas against them in 1988.

The Anfal Campaign and Kurdish Genocide is one example:

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s. They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions. Men and boys of ‘battle age’ were targeted and executed en masse. The campaign takes its name from Suratal-Anfal in the Qur’an. Al Anfal literally means the spoils (of war) and was used to describe the military campaign of extermination and looting commanded by Ali Hassan al-Majid.

If that’s not enough for you to understand who the bad guys are and it isn’t Israel, then how about Yemen, where more than 377,000 had died in war by 2021 and it is projected that that number could reach 1.3 million by 2030.

© WFP/Albaraa Mansour Mothers bring their children to a clinic for malnutrition prevention treatment in Taiz, Yemen, that is supported by the World Food Programme (WFP).

More than 17.8 million Yemenis lack access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services, while the country's health system has been extremely fragile for years. Only half of all health facilities are functional, leaving almost 22 million people – including around 10 million children - without adequate access to care.

The Houthis that are now attacking ships in the Red Sea, are a violent militia group that currently exercise de facto control over much of northern Yemen. They are also known as Ansar Allah (or “supporters of God”).

This is a war between good and evil, as old as time. Who are the aggressors? Is it white supremacist conservative Christians and Zionist Jews? How many terrorist attacks have been committed by Christian or Jewish terrorist organizations over the last five years? Or ten, or twenty?

How many videos show Christian pastors or Jewish rabbis maniacally vowing to “exterminate every Muslim on the planet”?

The one example that I could find that created an outcry was a sermon by Rabbi Shalom Lewis, spiritual leader of Etz Haim Congregation in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, where he was accused of calling for the extermination of Muslims.

However, this is a direct quote from what he actually said:

“They are all the same, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Al Shabab, Muslim Brotherhood, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, and Iran.”

“The fury of the ultimate evil is upon us and we must act – not to contain it, not to degrade it, not to manage it and not to tolerate it, but to exterminate it utterly and absolutely.”

“We are dealing with a moral species that eats its own, kills it’s young and celebrates innocent death as homage to God.  These Islamist criminals are unlike us in the most basic of ways and we have yet to accept and understand their total immersion in moral debauchery.”

He is clearly talking about Islamic extremists. Is there anything that he is saying that we should disagree with? If you disagree, you are a fool sleepwalking towards your own extermination, even welcoming it with open arms.

Finally, I return to Dalia Ziada.

In this short interview she talks about the importance of communication. She says that “if it weren’t for the dialogue between Israel and Egypt during the years 2012-2015, the terrorist organizations would still be in Sinai until this day. By the way, these terrorist organizations were established by Hamas in Sinai when Egypt was very weak, and Israel stood by us and helped us get rid of these terrorist organizations.”

Ziada speaks rationally. Surely, anyone listening who doesn’t have some obsessive and irrational hatred of Jews must see the sense of what she is saying. Where is Ziada? Her hiding place is unknown, but you can be sure it isn’t in a Muslim country. What do you suppose would happen to her if she were found?

I leave the last word to Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

“So the West must decide. Do we degenerate into quarrelling factions or do we reassert our enduring values and highest ideals on the global stage? Do we stand with Israel in action as in word or do we fall into a chasm of distraction and division? This might just be the most important choice our generation makes.”