On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, Douglas Murray, author and narrator
Following the attack, by Palestinians and their supporters from Gaza, on October 7th, 2023, an attack that had been financed largely by Iran and Muslims around the world, for decades, can Israel survive? Iran and these anti-Israel organizations want Israel annihilated, and they do not honor peace agreements. Yet, insanity reigns, and those responsible for the brutal murders, torture and kidnapping of more than 1200 innocent and unarmed Israeli victims, not all of whom were Jews because the aim was indiscriminate death, destruction and chaos, as per orders from their leaders, are being supported and cheered around the World.
Defying common sense, the terrorists who have never been held properly accountable for their heinous behavior are being supported with fundraisers and protest marches that fly in the face of sanity. The victims have become the victimizers and reality has become the Twilight Zone.
Douglas Murray has methodically and with greater detail, revealed far more about the attacks than the news media has, a media that has been corrupted. Even after the horror is exposed, even after the world learns that more than 250 hostages were taken, the elderly and babies included, even after there is proof of torture, rape and mutilation of their bodies, by nothing less than what seemed to be barbarians, the Israelis and Jews are being subjected to further horror. They watch an insane response develop, even in their own communities.
Around the world, as protests grew against Israel and support for the terrorists grew, lies proliferated, and cleverly, the enemy turned every heinous act performed by them, into a crime now instigated by the Israel and was therefore justified and acceptable. The expected condemnation of their barbarism never came. A world that had once been horrified by The Holocaust, now gleefully seemed to support what could rightfully be called another Holocaust. Incredibly, as well, these groups who were supporting Israel’s enemies, disregarded the fact that these very groups would murder them, because they represented the very infidels in society that they would not only gleefully murder, torture and humiliate, but their very religious tomes demanded it.
As college campuses were shut down by demonstrators and Jewish students were harassed, threatened and barred from entering their classrooms, as bridges and roads were shut down and American flags were burned and statues were defaced by these protesters, the call for the end of Israel from the river to the sea, and concomitantly, what must also certainly mean the wish for the end of Jewry as well, were cheered and promoted by the UN, the media and the heads of state, rather than the call for an end to the barbarians and their behavior. How did the barbarians turn the tide so that the victims were condemned and the victimizers were not? If they wanted to survive, Jews would have to fight back hard and ignore the proportionality that was always unfairly demanded. Still, they were expected to, and did continue to, supply humanitarian aid to the very people who brutally murdered them and were planning to do so again, even as these supplies were stolen by Hamas and withheld from the hostages. No matter what Israel did, they had few supporters. The International Criminal Court even issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, but not for the Ayatollah behind the very violence and hate being promoted. Israel was not engaging in criminal acts. It was engaging in self-defense and seeking nothing more than justice for the crimes committed against Israelis. Israel did not commit genocide, but that was certainly the intention of Sinwar, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran on 10/7. Israel is not now, nor was it ever, an apartheid state as Arabs live side by side with Israelis. Do Israelis live side by side with any Arab in most Arab countries? Why is the apartheid charge not leveled against them?
Douglas Murray carefully and deliberately lays out the actions of Israel’s enemies The world is antisemitic. Jews are not hated because they are in Israel, but because their enemies do not want Jews, anywhere. The book reveals the truth about a horror show that could hardly be imagined, let alone be considered a part of reality. When Douglas Murray, who is not a Jew, has the courage to love and support Israel far more than many in the rest of the world, including some Jews who are supporting their very enemies, one has to wonder why. When even the Arab countries will not allow the return of these barbarians, why would protesters believe that the Jews are supposed to embrace them? It is dangerous to voice ideas in support of Israel when their enemies are sanctioned to commit heinous crimes against those who defy them. Is that why so many support them?
Murray traveled through Israel for about a year. He visited the sites of the barbaric massacres. He witnessed for himself the heinous behavior of those now being praised. Yes, the country was caught off guard, but who could have expected that these very people who befriended the Palestinians, would be attacked by them? It was on a happy Jewish holiday signifying renewal. Israelis had left their phones at home while they worshiped, sang and danced and they were betrayed by the very two-faced, dishonorable people that they had worked so hard to help.
All the humanitarian aid that had been funneled into Gaza and into Lebanon was used by Israel’s enemies to build an elaborate tunnel system that rivaled the New York subway system. The UN peacekeepers and the Egyptians guarding their borders, etc., never seemed to notice what was being built beneath their noses with the very funds that were supposed to be used for humanitarian aid. They lied and said the tunnels were for their own safety, but it was their stage for war, and afterwards, they crawled back in and hid like the rats they were. They took the hostages into these very tunnels and tortured them, they put them in the homes of supposedly loving and “good” Gazans who tormented and further humiliated them, starved them, sexually abused them and then even murdered them. Is it possible that the UN was complicit?
To acknowledge that the very people who were there to prevent this kind of thing from happening, actually ignored this kind of thing is difficult. Yet, they are not the ones considered criminals by the International Criminal Court. Fact: The Gazans are not prisoners because of Israel, they are walled in because they engage in savage behavior and will not stop. No country wants them. Their religion demands that they die as martyrs. It is taught to their children. They worship death and the rewards in the afterlife, not in the world in which we live. Israel had become complacent, believing in the possibility of peace with their enemies, but these enemies did not want peace. The Gazans were not bystanders, were not being oppressed by Hamas, but were willing participants who supported Hamas. They enjoyed their savagery, filming it for the world to herald as justified! Murray’s respect for Israel motivated him to write this book which details the October 7th massacre and the history that caused it. He illustrates the complete breakdown of society as it supports the barbarians instead of the Jews. He exposes the marchers, the terrorists and the tragedies that unfolded. Those who massacred innocent babies, grandmothers, sleeping parents, peace music festival attendees, children in safe rooms, burnt them alive, poked out their eyes, cut off their breasts are being applauded, being hailed as heroes while their victims are falsely maligned. He searches the minds of those who were terrorized as he explores the insanity of their enemy's way of thinking as well. The blame for the oppression of Palestinians seems to sit squarely elsewhere and not on the shoulders of Israel, but even when rational people see the evidence, they support the barbarians and react irrationally. While Israelis are expected to follow the rules, their enemies are not, and bizarrely, they are excused for breaking them. The evil carried out was aided by the policies of Obama and Biden, and for that, America should be ashamed.
This book must become required reading in every school, in every country. The real enemies of peace must be driven out, if civilization is to survive. Supporting those who support death and not those who support life defies common sense. Douglas illustrates Israel’s humanity and the inhumanity of its enemies. He exposes the barbarians who hide their weapons under the beds of their children. He exposes the hypocrisy of condemning Israel in favor of theocratic dictators. We might well witness the conflagration in the Middle East that is predicted to end the world, if we cannot reverse the insanity we are witnessing today.