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The October 7 War is existential for Israel – and for the free world. To secure our survival, we need to remove the threat of the terrorist armies on our borders, hellbent on our destruction. Israel cannot accept a ceasefire that leaves these terrorist armies free and emboldened to intensify their religious war to annihilate us. But it is also existential for the free world, whose future depends on the fate of three democracies, at risk of extinction by aggressive neighbors: Ukraine at the hands of Russia, Taiwan at the hands of China, and Israel at the hands of Iran.
Those threats are interlinked, because Russia, China, and Iran are trying to undermine the global order and destabilize Western countries from within.
At stake is whether the enemies of the free world conclude that it won’t stand up for itself, and will throw its allies under a bus when the going gets tough. Because the Iranian regime and its proxies understand the critical importance of Israel to the West’s security, perhaps more than some Western leaders do. They want to weaken us to weaken you; they want to hurt us to hurt you.
This is not a war Israel started, wanted, or even expected. But it is a war that we must win, because we want to live. Much of the West wants this war to go away, but the war cannot go away until the threats go away. And we cannot wish them away.
The October 7 War is existential for Israel – and for the free world. To secure our survival, we need to remove the threat of the terrorist armies on our borders, hellbent on our destruction. Israel cannot accept a ceasefire that leaves these terrorist armies free and emboldened to intensify their religious war to annihilate us. But it is also existential for the free world, whose future depends on the fate of three democracies, at risk of extinction by aggressive neighbors: Ukraine at the hands of Russia, Taiwan at the hands of China, and Israel at the hands of Iran.
Those threats are interlinked, because Russia, China, and Iran are trying to undermine the global order and destabilize Western countries from within.
At stake is whether the enemies of the free world conclude that it won’t stand up for itself, and will throw its allies under a bus when the going gets tough. Because the Iranian regime and its proxies understand the critical importance of Israel to the West’s security, perhaps more than some Western leaders do. They want to weaken us to weaken you; they want to hurt us to hurt you.
This is not a war Israel started, wanted, or even expected. But it is a war that we must win, because we want to live. Much of the West wants this war to go away, but the war cannot go away until the threats go away. And we cannot wish them away.
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