The battle lines for the preservation of Western civilization were drawn long before the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004. The double-dealing actions of many European leaders have been endlessly on display for all to see.
Now, both the US and Israel -- in their quest to stop the indefatigable enemies of the West and maintain free trade, democracy, and military deterrence against these predators -- may have found themselves thwarted. By whom? By their "allies," no less: Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
These nations, along with Norway, Denmark, Slovenia and Canada, have imposed sanctions, restrictions, and punitive measures of various sorts against Israel during its efforts to defend itself -- and them! -- against enemies of civilization and the West. The threat, with ballistic missiles, was to come from Iran, about to achieve nuclear weapons capability in two weeks or less, as well as from the regime's proxy jihadist forces, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
Similar measures, designed to frustrate the Israel-America coalition against an openly predatory Iran, seem to have arisen from two main sources. The first has been the anti-democratic influence of Islam in the domestic affairs of Western Europe; the second, from a deep-seated anti-Semitic doctrine in Europe, now more present than ever – and being strongly reinforced.
Jews have been unwelcome wherever they were since the time of the Pharaohs 4,000 years ago. Jews have been expelled by the Babylonians in 597 BCE, the Romans in 136 CE, the English in 1290, the French in 1306, and the Spanish in 1492. Since the atrocities of the Holocaust in the 1940s, when Germany sent Jews to camps to be tortured, starved and murdered, hatred of the Jews seemed to have lain dormant. Not for long.
Now, Jew-hate in the West -- thanks to a widespread alliance between neo-Marxists, climate activists and Islamist propagandists – has once again become unashamedly "normalized" and mainstreamed -- even, in some quarters, quite popular. Discord between Western allies -- ostensibly due to contrasting views towards Islam and Israel -- has recently escalated to a new height. Its core most likely consists of a deep-seated envy that a handful of scruffy, hunted people managed to transform a land of sand dunes, deserts and malarial swamps into a gleaming superpower -- all while defending themselves against unrelenting neighboring countries trying to snuff them out.
Such an achievement must, of course, be punished. First, the Western alliance of 40 nations imposed sanctions on Israel while it was defending not only its own existence but theirs as well. These were immediately followed by revived demands to establish a belligerent Palestinian state directly on Israel's border, despite Palestinians themselves having rejected the offer of both a Palestinian state and a "two-state solution" six times in favor of a one-state solution "from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea": all of Israel.
The purpose of these nations was apparently to benefit an ostensible "people" who not only admit to having been "invented, " but who for decades have been unabashedly committed to annihilating Israel. As proposed by the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: "If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I have a suggestion for them — carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state. They are welcome to do that, but they are not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation."
In March, US President Donald J. Trump, planning his joint effort with Israel to terminate Iran's nuclear program, made a request of US allies. He did not ask Europe for troops or even weapons. He merely asked if US airplanes could fly over their airspace or for use of military bases, which the US has not only been funding to protect – take a guess: Europe – but some of which, such as the base on Diego Garcia it actually co-owns with the United Kingdom. After earlier refusals by Europe and Canada to help with the war -- a move that would have been in their own interests -- his requests were denied.
Iran, it turned out, indeed possesses ballistic missiles capable of reaching deep into Europe, yet European nations remained unperturbed.
These European nations, endeavoring to claim the high moral ground by appealing to "international law" and vaunted human rights, voiced their intention not to become embroiled, either actively or passively, in America and Israel's purportedly illegal operation, despite the US having become "embroiled" in their threats from Russia. Trump then expressed his displeasure by pulling 5,000 US troops out of Germany, and is weighing removing more troops from Italy and Spain.
The detachment from reality of Europe's craven leaders also extends to ignoring not only Iran's diabolical treatment of its own citizens, but also the murderous attacks it has carried out against innocent Jews and others worldwide. Meanwhile, Iran and its jihadist proxies appear innocent of the Western "infidel" concepts of just wars, international laws, human rights or the Geneva conventions. They are mainly directed, it seems, by medieval Sharia law.
Since World War II, the US has been the backbone of NATO, while Europe has parasitically fed off America to jump to its defense. Instead of developing military preparedness, Europeans have, for years, reduced their forces in favor of funding, in addition to their own citizens, millions of newcomers who are not shy about saying how much they loathe their new domiciles, and destroying their economies by adopting "green energy," such as wind turbines, which they were warned could never work. Without the burden of building functioning militaries, at first their economies prospered enormously – at America's expense. They have now been exposed as "paper tigers," while Russia is in the midst of trying to seize Crimea and Ukraine.
Europe as a whole has an enormous economy -- $32 trillion, the same size as America's. Together, they are the world's two largest economies. Their members can afford significant military spending, and Trump has been requesting it. In fairness, however, after Europe began two world wars in the last century, there did not seem to be a great appetite for Europe -- read Germany -- to be able to try that again.
In addition, NATO is constituted, presumably deliberately, as a defensive alliance, not an offensive one. The reluctance of NATO members to participate in the Iran campaign as part of a NATO team is therefore somewhat understandable. Even so, there is no reason for them not to participate individually, outside the NATO umbrella – as the US has been doing, especially in providing the use of military bases and flyover rights.
Trump, again, did not withhold his thoughts: "All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the US, we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just take it. You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us."
Without America, Europe is lost – as it was in both World Wars. In the circumstances, due to the fast growth of Islamic power in Europe, it might be wise for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his equally hapless – when not harmful -- counterpart in France, President Emmanuel Macron, to relocate their nuclear weapons to US territory. Islam has begun dominating the continent with mosques, Sharia courts, Islamic schools, halal food supply -- and electing radicals to influential political positions at local or council levels as well as on national platforms.
"Leadership in times of crisis," it has been said, "is not measured by the absence of risk, but by the willingness to accept it." In avoiding risk, the cowardly leaders of Western Europe – those sell-outs to an increasingly antagonistic extremist Muslim electorate upon whom they are increasingly dependent for political office -- are a disgrace to their nations. They are also a great disappointment to those who believe in the preservation of history's finest civilization – one with freedom, democracy, human rights, and an embedded Judeo-Christian moral foundation.
These leaders seemingly reject any obligation to oppose attempts to destroy their nations' traditional way of life. In the tradition of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who in 1938 imagined that he had a peace deal with Hitler, they have taken on a greater risk: that of appeasement.
European nations, it appears, have succumbed to Islamization. Their rapidly changing demographics reveal it; their failure to adequately protect their small Jewish communities against vociferous hate reveal it; their compromise on basic individual freedoms in their own countries reveal it, and their refusals to support the US, their erstwhile protector, reveal it.
Islamic extremists must feel immensely emboldened in their imperialist endeavors to colonize Europe.
The fecklessness of these weak leaders who turn their backs on efforts by the US and Israel to save the West has been fully exposed. The ultimate intent of Islamization, seemingly, is to dismantle Western civilization and impose a worldwide Islamic caliphate under Sharia law -- as has been successfully achieved in Turkey, formerly the great Christian Byzantine Empire, as well as much of North Africa and central and south Asia.
In the UK, this process of Islamification has borne much fruit: Islam has become a dominant culture. Examples abound: the failure adequately to deal with the long-term mass sexual abuse of hundreds of thousands of English children, and the increasing arrests of British citizens who, either online or in person, criticize the UK's staggering cultural erosion.
Demographically, Britain is now a nation where the most popular name for baby boys, for 16 years running, is Mohammed (in its various spellings). Britain is a nation where Islamist extremists have been a primary criminal concern; where social cohesion is fractured, and where the "old world" will shortly be replaced by a culture not just free of Judeo-Christian values but that is adversarial to them.
Welcome to the new Europe. Its antagonists are inside the gate -- without firing a single shot.
Steve Harvey
