Sunday October 22 2023—I know that many people around the world who value freedom and peace are scared tonight by the rise in anti-Semitism and of blatant militant Islam sweeping the globe coinciding with the Hamas attack on Israel just two Saturdays ago.

By way of careful clarification here, my use of the term “militant Islam” is to Islam, what the Ku Klux Klan is to Christianity. A fanatical bastardisation of religion to support a fundamentalist political agenda. It is not true Islam at all.

It’s as if after Hamas’ attack on Israel October 7, Militant Islamic sleeper cells worldwide suddenly woke to a signal, stormed the streets and everyday people not understanding their significance joined the throng—complete political parties like the Australian Greens included. The saddest part of this herd, of course, are the “LGBTIQA+ For Palestine” groups who believe that Hamas loves them, when Islamists would gladly cut their throats and livestream the show.

100,000 people protested in London yesterday for Palestine. The UK Metropolitan Police went to great pains to plan the march route and set rules for its conduct.

Of note were two worrying points:

  • The police promised that no anti-Semitic slurs or threats at Jewish people would be tolerated during the march.
  • Yet, protesters would be able to chant: “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea”, so long as they did so on the march but not in any personal Jewish space or context.

These sounded like great moves, except that during the march, protestors did film themselves threatening Jews: one video showed a burly ISIS wannabe with a megaphone yelling that the difference between a Jew and a Muslim was that “a Jew welcomed life but a Muslim welcomed death”.

And we recall that the chant above is actually code for “Death to Jews”: it speaks of the eradication of Jews from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, in other words, a single Palestinian state where Israel now exists, one that Hamas reckons as the “Islamic State of Palestine”.

So, British Jews today are posting on social media of their fear to use public transport and walk their local streets. This week we’ve seen violence in France and Turkey. A synagogue in Tunisia was destroyed. Jewish businesses were ransacked in Spain today. While Korean teens who have absolutely no understanding of World War Two history nor of the Holocaust have held signs with anti-Semitic slurs.

Which all paints a pretty drastic picture of the world after four years of Covid denial that’s caused a cost of living crisis; and military tensions in Ukraine, Russia, Africa, the South China Sea and Taiwan. Not to mention the seeming implosion of the United States with Donald Trump again on the election hustings facing more criminal charges than the 1930s gangster Al Capone—including a ruling against him for business fraud. The US Congress is currently frozen and then there’s a tsunami of global corporate and political corruption. Prior to Hamas’ attack, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was in the process of neutering the powers of his nation’s Supreme Court to prevent its oversight of corruption charges against him to the protests of thousands of Israelis in Tel Aviv each weekend for months.

What should everyday people do?

Do not panic.

For now, just know that we are not yet in our darkest hour but history shows that when it comes, at some point every storm will end. How long it takes and who gets to see the sun rise again, those are the unknowns.

Monday October 23 2023—But the darkest hour is approaching. What did today bring?

  • A mass Islamic protest in France with anti-Semitic calls by a French politician against the Jewish president of the National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet to the roar of the crowd. After which, extreme far right politician Marine Le Pen called on Jews to support her party for their safety.
  • A mass Islamic protest in Sweden flying Palestinian, Iraqi and Turkish flags with a megaphone preaching that Hamas had only kidnapped “20 Israeli kids” while Swedish prime minster Ulf Kristersson has led the “kidnapping of thousands of (Muslim) kids”. The crowd roared.
  • TikTokers tearing down posters of Israeli kids kidnapped by Hamas from lampposts and walls across the USA.

And there were some acts at the other end of spectrum.

  • An Israeli spokesperson giving a BBC presenter pushback live-to-air over her Palestinian bias and telling the BBC to smarten up, “We are here protecting you. We don’t need your protection,” he said.
  • Mass Jewish vigils in London and Berlin in memory of Israel’s Hamas victims.
  • A visit to Israel by Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni (a Neo-facsist ideologically linked to WW2’s Benito Mussolini) in a show of support!
  • A woman in Brooklyn, USA, catching a couple tearing down kidnapping posters, screaming as only a New Yorker can: “Those are US citizens!” causing the boyfriend-girlfriend vandal duo to flee.

That said, bad times for the world and world Jewry are coming.

Having failed to control Hamas since its manifestation as a terror group in the 1990s including bus bombings, shopping centre bombings, kidnappings, rocket attacks and now the worst one-day mass murder of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust—Israel is now intent on wiping it out. Much as the US did with the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and ISIS in Syria, Israel now wants Hamas gone wishing it had done so during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

The US, UK and Europe have given them the green light. They fear that Hamas will one day come for the West too with Europe’s borders open far too long and the vetting of refugees from the Levant lax. Saying this isn’t racist. It reflects the fact that Islamists exiting Syria and Iraq this past decade have done so gambling a safe crossing to Europe for the jihad they’ve hidden in their pockets.

Therefore, how will millions of Islamic fanatics and their gullible Gen Y and Gen Z supporters in the West now react? How will Hamas’ financial and logistical sponsors Iran and Qatar react? How will Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Al Qaeda, react? What will Israel’s green light bring?

And let’s not forget the elephant in the room: Russia. Once the pre-eminent Cold War backer and military adviser of nearly every Arab nation, once the key player in the Syrian Civil War a decade ago, how will its enormous losses in the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War now translate into Mideast strategy?

Both France and Germany have begun calls for the deportation of visa-holding Islamists to quell their local fires. Italy, still besieged by refugee boats, will join this campaign too. A teetering UK appears supportive of deportations, while in Australia only its opposition leader has urged the same.

Here’s where we are.

Unless Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank manage to overthrow Hamas and Islamic Jihad in their territories—and very soon—bringing another negotiator to the table in the guise most likely of the former Palestinian Authority (whose corruption helped bring Hamas to power), there will be war in the Gaza Strip.

Israel will invade. It will sweep the 365 square kilometres of Gaza, a place Israel had tried to return to Egypt with the signing of the 1978 Camp David Peace Accord that Egypt’s Anwar Sadat declined, wanting the Sinai alone.

In a world of 475 million Arabs in 22 counties, only Lebanon and Tunisia have ever accepted the PLO with its Palestinian refugees: Lebanon’s thank you was a civil war and the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah as its eventual government. Today, Egypt has genuine reason to fear a Palestinian refugee crisis in the form of a Muslim Brotherhood insurgency, from which Hamas was born. After 75 years, there is no such thing as a clear cut “Palestinian”.

Now a land campaign of this type, amid the ruins of bombed-out apartment blocks and tunnel complexes will be deadly for the Israelis.

I’ve compared it many times to the Battle of Stalingrad in WW2, fought over a sprawling built-up urban strip along the banks of the Volga river where the entire German 6th Army fell to a Russian meat grinder protected by the very ruins Germany’s air bombing wrought and the city’s underground sewer system that provided the perfect stealth for movement.

There is a difference with Gaza, however.

Firstly, the Russians succeeded only due to their nightly resupplies into Stalingrad across the Volga. Hamas has no such supply routes into Gaza at all—Israel has the Strip sealed. Secondly, the Germans were ever so close to victory but sent their armoured divisions east into the Caucuses in a show of hubris, leaving the 6th Army without tank support. Israel will not make that mistake—a major combined arms offensive Operation Swords of Iron will be.

Still, hundreds of Israeli soldiers risk death from Hamas booby traps, snipers, improvised explosive devises and close combat amid Gaza’s ruins. Hundreds more risk wounding or capture—a key hallmark of Hamas’ public opinion strategy. If Hamas chooses the fanatical route it professes, it will strive to take every infidel along with it that it can.

We then come to the geopolitical threat of the war’s expansion: Iran through Syria, Iranian-Hezbollah through Lebanon, Houthi Yemen versus Saudi Arabia, Iraq versus Jordan, Turkey versus the Iraqi Kurds, uprisings in Somalia, Mali, Libya and Sudan; and terror cells erupting in every Western nation.

That is Armageddon.

Either peace will come within weeks in the form of the voluntary demilitarisation of the Occupied Territories overseen by the West and replaced with a “pro-Palestinian” secular government-in-waiting, financed by Saudi Arabia, or Israel will flatten the Gaza Strip, refugee camps strewn throughout the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula to the glee of the anti-Semitic mainstream and social media.

Putin’s Russia is irrelevant here. Xi’s China too. Iran teeters on regime change with a swell of secularism bubbling in its streets. Iran’s Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard Corps) will not forego the massive global business empire it’s built for the sake of two million Palestinians.

But hate will continue unless the world unites against Hamas and its goal of an Islamic State in Palestine (ISIP).

Can a world that’s been gaslit into accepting Covid-19 denial—that infection with a pandemic disease is good—ever regain its moral compass?

Can this world ever again see the difference between an oppressive Islamic regime and a free secular nation? Or are we now conditioned to think that anything “good” is “bad”, and that if bad is popular it must be good? Are we back to the groupthink of Nazi Germany?

On the door frame of nearly every Jewish home is a small decorative box called a Mezuzah. In it is a scroll of parchment that says, “I love God”.

In Europe and the US, Jews have begun taking them down in fear.

A storm is coming. It’s been brewing for decades and Covid denial has laid the atmosphere for a willing unthinking fodder. How long it lasts will depend on how long it takes for people to regain their logic.

It will pass. Anti-Semitism always does.

But till then it will be deadly. How long will this wave last: a hundred years, fifty, a decade?

Six million Jews died from intolerance in World War Two, but that storm of hatred took another 70 million people with them.

Blue skies will prevail. I just can’t guarantee that any of you reading this will get to see them.

© 2023 Adam Parker.