As Toynbee said, “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Anyone following the on again, off again Israel-Hamas negotiations knows that one of the major sticking points is the Philadelphi Corridor that signals the end of Gazan Rafah and the start of the Egyptian border. If one looks at a map of the region, he will see that there are 250 kilometers of border between Egypt and Israel from the Red Sea up until Gaza. The last 14 kilometers up to the Mediterranean have been run by Egypt and Hamas since Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. It is through this border that untold thousands of tons of weaponry entered the Gaza Strip that was used to murder over a thousand Israelis and wage war against the IDF for nearly a year. Even today, 10 months after the pogrom, they still fire rockets and make use of RPGs and Kalashnikovs.
Tooth and nail, Hamas—and Egypt!—are demanding that the Gaza side of the border be returned to Hamas. They are not even bothering to pretend that they want peace. Gazans can get everything they need through the various Israeli border crossings that allow for movement of people and goods of all types. Food, construction material, heavy equipment—everything can come through Israel, except weapons. And there are endless tons of Iranian weapons waiting for Hamas in the Sinai desert. The only thing preventing the full rearmament of Hamas and the wholesale slaughter of Jews is a lack of an available border crossing. Egypt has shown its true colors and once again shows that the Camp David Accords were signed with a treacherous nation. The Egyptians no doubt extort exorbitant sums from Hamas and Iran to act as a conduit for weapons and raw material transfer. Without the Rafah crossings in Hamas hands, Gazans can eat and live. With them back in Hamas hands, Israelis cannot.
There is enormous international pressure—especially from Biden and Blinken—to just make a deal. Get the war over with! Enough! Bring home the hostages! But if Israel gives up the Philadelphi Corridor and the Netzarim Crossing further north, then Israelis will die. It is that simple. Hamas will rearm and they will find enough of their former fighters and recruit plenty of new ones to start preparations for the next slaughter in Israel. The question is simple: will Israel be badgered into committing its own assisted suicide? No high tech solution will keep weapons from flowing between Egyptian Sinai and Gaza in the place of complete IDF control. I would love to declare that if Israel gives up the Rafah crossings, I will move somewhere else. But as we will see below, other countries are also lining up for their turn at destroying themselves.
The United States, the greatest country that ever was, is also trying to kill itself. How else can one describe a completely open border through which tens of millions of unvetted illegal aliens have entered? How else would one describe a country with $35 trillion in debt with no plan to deal with the same? How else might one describe a country that cannot fill its military quotas and expects to fight pronouns and not Chinese soldiers in its next war? How does one understand a country whose policies of gay marriage, trans, and open-ended abortion all lead to no children in its future? The US is an extraordinary country. One of our boys is traveling on the west coast because he so much enjoyed our trips there that he went back to experience it again. How can a country or half of a country favor voting rules that just beg for fraud? The Democrats’ demand for no voter ID and a strong reliance on programmable voting machines and early voting are designed to keep them in power—and not to make the United States a better country. I dearly love the US but I look at policies that just scream: “We don’t want to exist anymore!”
The situation in Europe and Australia is no better and probably worse. Sweden has very belatedly woken up to the reality that it took in way more immigrants than it could handle. Violence and mayhem are typical in the big Swedish cities, as the masses graciously given a new home have no interest in integrating into an IKEA kind of life. England has been reduced to monitoring its formerly free citizens’ net chatter. Imagine saying that the two guys who took home Olympic gold medals are not women and then have police banging at your door and demanding that you come out with your smartphone where they can see it. France has disgraced itself by arresting the founder of Telegram for the sin of allowing too much free expression on his platform. Do you still remember the tractor protests that hit multiple countries in response to their leaders bowing to Davos and planning to destroy their agricultural sectors to please the climate gods? Australia has turned its once former citizens into disarmed serfs that live according to the whims of their politicians. These trends are all leading to a path of national suicide.
So, is there hope? As long as the sun comes up in the east, there is always hope. In the US, the supposedly wild-eyed MAGA crowd is for a nation that works for its citizens. A closed border, removal of illegal aliens, manufacturing at home, a strong military to avoid foreign wars, and support for the values that made America great—these are the things that at least half of the country wants. Those in their tractors protesting in Europe as well as those in England fighting uncontrolled immigration want their countries to succeed as they once did and not die from terminal multiculturalism. Marine LePen went from an afterthought to the cusp of becoming prime minister. More and more people realize that the Soros/Davos international left wants Western countries to commit social and political suicide for perverted ideals and nonsensical climate goals. The protesters outside of the DNC were not subtle in demanding the destruction of the US. They have like-minded friends in every Western country. But there are those who see the incredible potential of their countries. Binyamin Netanyahu has been fighting not to return the Rafah crossings, because he knows that their return will be measured in the number of Israelis killed by the weapons that come through the Egyptian border. Just for context, the IDF killed a terrorist in Tulkarm on Tuesday who had been released in November during the last deal with Hamas. Just as the Democrats want to control America and enact their anti-American agenda, Hamas wants to destroy Israel. Period. There is no hopey-dopey kumbaya for either of them.
The West is worth fighting for. One only needs to look at failed states or dictatorships to realize that the suicide of the West will lead to one or the other. The West has too much to offer and has so many good people that these countries can recover from the suicide watch to full health. But it will take electoral efforts and the use of political power to weaken and neuter those whose policies are designed to destroy the free countries of the world. Suicide is a choice, but so is the will to live and thrive.
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