In Britain and France, the liberal establishment seems prepared to hand over their countries to leftists who hate Western civilization rather than let their governments be run by conservatives who want to preserve it. In this week’s episode of “Think Twice,” JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by JNS columnist Melanie Phillips, who says that at the heart of these political struggles is the question of whether the West wants to survive the assault on its civilization and values by leftists and Islamists who wish to destroy it.
Phillips says the results of the British election were largely dictated by the failure of the Conservative Party, which had ruled for 14 years to defend their country against the toll of out-of-control immigration policies, unfettered liberal economics, multiculturalism and woke madness. They were, she says, so worried about being called the “nasty party” that they failed to see the “fundamental need for Britain to reassert its traditions, its independence, its traditions, its culture and uphold them and uphold the integrity of the nation in a way that bound people together to restore the core values of British society. Britain was a very gentle, tolerant society and it was the Conservatives who presided over its destruction.”
The concern now is that the United Kingdom has been handed over to a leftist-dominated Labour Party that will not only be far more hostile to Israel but likely kowtow to the Islamizing agenda of Muslim immigrants. Phillips, who was raised in England and now lives in Israel, believes the fortunes of political conservatives in Britain and elsewhere depend on whether they are ready to forthrightly stand up against this destructive agenda and defend the West. The fate of European Jews is also linked to whether they are prepared to understand that the real threat to their security is from the leftist-Islamist alliance, not the right.
Phillips is particularly worried about the impact of the U.S. elections on Israel and whether Washington will be prepared to support efforts to deal with the threat from Iran and its terrorist proxies. “If the West is to be defended against these forces of evil which Iran has amassed behind it, Iran has to be neutralized as the head of the snake,” she says. “If the left wins in America, then Israel is in for a very, very harder time than it is even now.”
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