Why are we still trying to convince anyone? The West condemned us long before October 7. It condemned us and murdered us when we had a state two thousand years ago. It condemned us and murdered us when we had no state after they threw us out. It condemned us and murdered us when we came home. Now it condemns us for defending ourselves, and it sends billions every year to the people doing the killing.
So what exactly are we apologizing for, and to whom? To the countries that put Jews on trains eighty-five years ago? To the governments that blocked the exits while the camps were still running? To the same political class that now puts its full weight behind the people murdering us?
It wouldn’t matter what we said and it wouldn’t matter what we did. The sentence was written a long time ago and it only ever runs in one direction. Nothing about this week is new except one fact they hate. We do not need them to protect us anymore. We do not need their approval. We do not need the performance of their friendship. We were never going to get it.
There is no serious difference between what Macron told the UN yesterday and what Vichy did in 1940. There is no serious difference between what Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham say now and what Britain did to us in the Mandate and the White Paper. There is no serious difference between what Mark Carney says now and Canada turning away a ship of Jews during the war and sending them back toward the death that was waiting for them.
The difference is us. We have an army. We have a spine. We know who we are and we are not ashamed of it. Name a Western country that can still say the same without choking on the sentence. They are too busy apologizing for existing, and they are bowing to the same people who want them gone and want us gone.
We owe that world nothing. If the ledger runs the other way, they will never pay it, and we should stop standing there with our hand out.
There is only one job left. A lot of people want us erased. Plenty of them live close enough to say it every day. Our responsibility is to make sure they fail. Mercy is not owed to people who have none. We do not owe care to children of a society that murders ours and films it. If they go hungry, if they go cold, if the water stops, that is the bill for what they built. We didn’t write it. They did. They can live with it. We need to stop apologizing for surviving it.