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Oct 8, a blessing in disguise? (Times of Israel - 6 Sep 2025)
October 8, 2023, stunned the Jewish world. Just a day earlier, Israel had endured the deadliest massacre since the Holocaust. Over 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered, hundreds more kidnapped, and entire communities left in ruins. Yet instead of solidarity, hundreds of thousands around the globe filled the streets, not to mourn with us, but to protest against us. Many even chanted in support of the killers: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
No one expected this, not in the West, not in our own neighborhoods. For decades, Jews believed that after the Holocaust, the world had learned. But the rapid turn from sympathy to hostility revealed something darker: the protests were not spontaneous expressions of grief or outrage, but the visible result of years of careful ideological conditioning.
As the shock faded, one fact became undeniable. This was no organic eruption of anger. It was the product of long-term efforts, driven by Iran and its proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, financed by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and global networks of anti-Israel and antisemitic organizations. It was a meticulously orchestrated campaign, one that exploited universities, media, and civil society to recruit followers across the ideological spectrum. From radical leftists to far-right extremists, they converged on a single obsession: antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
The sickness ran wide and deep. Media outlets, academic institutions, corporations, and countless social groups rushed, out of ignorance or convenience, to defend Hamas, a terrorist organization that murders civilians and uses children as shields. Many did not know, or pretended not to know, who Hamas truly is. They ignored why this war began, how many Israelis were massacred or kidnapped, or even the meaning of the slogans they chanted. Few seemed to grasp that “from the river to the sea” is not a call for coexistence but for the elimination of Israel and the Jews who live there.
History offers clarity. In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the land then called the British Mandate of Palestine, granting one part to the Jews and one to the Arabs. The Jews accepted and declared the State of Israel, a democracy that has since flourished and contributed disproportionately to global science, medicine, and technology. The Arabs rejected the partition. The very next day, five Arab armies invaded, vowing to push the Jews into the sea. Since then, Israel has fought and won seven wars, each designed not to create peace but to erase the Jewish state from existence.
That is the context too often forgotten or deliberately ignored. The chants, the marches, the online campaigns are not about borders or policies. They are about the denial of Israel’s right to exist.
But something else has happened since October 8. For the first time in decades, much of the Western, Judeo-Christian world has begun to awaken. Many citizens, at first thinking these demonstrations were merely “anti-Israel,” now see that they are part of something larger. The protests revealed not only sympathy for terrorism but also a desire to impose foreign ideologies, values, and cultural frameworks onto Western societies themselves.
Ordinary citizens across Europe and North America are asking new questions: How did our universities become breeding grounds for hatred? Why are our streets filled with people glorifying murderers? How did we allow ourselves to become ideologically and financially infiltrated?
October 8 was a turning point. It was not only the day Israel suffered its greatest tragedy in generations; it was also the day the West discovered that the battle is not just Israel’s. It is theirs too. A civilization built on democratic values, human dignity, and Judeo-Christian ethics is under attack, not only from rockets and terrorists in the Middle East, but from within their own societies.
The challenge now is whether the West will confront this threat with the same clarity and resilience that Israel has had to summon for seventy-five years. If they do not, they may find that what began as protests “against Israel” was only the opening salvo of a much deeper struggle over the survival of their own culture, freedoms, and way of life.
Sporadic and separate incidents are starting to happen all over Europe and the US, the judeo christian majority that stood silence hoping the protests were going to stop after some weeks, their institutions were going back to normal, their youth will retake the path their fathers and grandfathers had taken, their way of life will not be threaten; They are starting to realize this may well not happen. They have started to understand it is not Israel or the Jews, the threat is to them, their beliefs, their principles, their cities, their countries.
If not for October 8, who knows how many more years Western civilization would have continued to be undermined, especially through unchecked Islamist influence, until stopping it became impossible. I say this assuming there is still time. Perhaps, then, October 8 was a terrible blessing in disguise: a wake-up call that may yet allow the Judeo-Christian world to preserve its autonomy, its values, and its future.https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/oct-8-a-blessing-in-disguise/
( Por: Yehudi Sabbagh , 06/09/2025 )
