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Attack on Israel Reveals Need for a New Global Anti-Terror Alliance
In the wake of this week’s terrorist attack on Israel, the world must unite as it did after 9/11. The battle is far from over and any nation could be next.
“The failure to unambiguously condemn terrorism puts at risk not only people in Israel but people everywhere,” U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 12, 2023.
“Look at what just happened,” said Secretary Blinken. “Individuals from 36 countries killed or missing in the aftermath of Hamas’s attacks. Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas — no region has escaped Hamas’s bloody reach.”
“Anyone who wants peace and justice must condemn Hamas’s reign of terror,” he said.
He is right.
When Hamas terrorists descended on Israel Saturday night, during one of the highest holy times in the Jewish calendar, it took many communities by surprise. While Israelis and tourists slept peacefully in their beds, danced into the perfect fall night at a music festival, or went about other ordinary business, the forces of evil began arriving by pickup truck, paragliding in from above, and appearing as if out of nowhere.