Even our time has its Chamberlains

During the 1930s, many Western politicians, including British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, advocated a policy of appeasement towards Hitler. Today, the policy of appeasement is still popular, but it is now applied to Israel’s enemies. How long will it take today’s Chamberlains to realize they are flirting with the devil?

The reaction of some leading opinion makers in the West to Israel’s defensive war is puzzling. Do these people not understand that Israel is fighting an existential war after the country has been subjected to terrorist shelling for a long time? Do they not understand that Israel wants to fight the terror regimes and infrastructure of Hamas and Hezbollah on the battlefield but is forced to hunt them among the civilian population, where they hide and use innocent people as human shields?

Why don’t Western opinion leaders realize that Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran are exploiting people’s natural sensitivity to death and destruction to distract attention from their ultimate goal of annihilating Israel? Why don’t they listen to the terrorist regimes’ explicit declarations that all casualties are necessary martyrs in the fight against Israel’s mere existence?

Are some opinion leaders immune to the diabolical goals of the terrorist regimes – the annihilation of Israel – or is there another agenda? Or do they choose to remain silent in the face of oil-rich and cash-strapped oppressive regimes out of cowardice? Do they cynically reason that it is best if Israel is wiped out so that the world will finally have peace in the Middle East? Do they not understand that the Middle East (or the rest of the world) will never achieve peace as long as radical Islam has a foothold and is duping people?

Don’t today’s “Chamberlains” understand that Israel is the front for the West’s fight against superstitious religious oppression of the worst kind and that they help the terrorist regimes? They opposed the neutralisation of the Hamas terror network in Rafah under the pretext that thousands of civilians would be casualties when, in fact, very few if any, civilian casualties were caused. Instead, tunnels were discovered en masse between Gaza and Egypt, suggesting that the opposition to Israel’s neutralization of the Rafah area had utterly different reasons.

Chamberlains opposed the targeted elimination of Hezbollah’s leadership in Beirut, while for eleven months before that, they did not breathe the slightest demand that Hezbollah stop terror bombing northern Israel. When the Israeli military finally went in and neutralized Hezbollah’s terror network in almost every house in southern Lebanon’s border area with Israel, today’s Chamberlains demanded a cease-fire.

Neville Chamberlain thought he could appease Hitler and bring peace to Europe when he signed the Munich Agreement on September 30, 1938, handing over the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

Do some Western opinion makers and political leaders believe that Israel’s annihilation will benefit their countries? Such capitulation would instead give even more nourishment to the crazy imperialist ideas of radical Islamists to spread Islam through continued conquests.

The West’s conquest of tolerance and coexistence based on the revolutionary reason-based insights of the Enlightenment must be defended against these hateful, jealous and cognitively limited people who are unable to abandon the “duty” to spread radical Islamism throughout the world.

What is it that is so difficult to understand? Neville Chamberlain finally realized his fatal mistake and misjudgment of Hitler. When will today’s Chamberlains wake up to what is going on and act resolutely against radical Islamism, which represents everything the West have out with the last 250 years.