Western countries, including the US, will have to make a choice.

A long time ago, I saw an interview with an Air Force pilot. He described simulator sessions in which he was given up to seven different faults, from engine fire to landing gear not coming down. His superiors wanted to see that he could stay calm, put the problems in order, and solve them sequentially prior to a safe landing. The pilots I have had the privilege to meet seem like cool cucumbers, and such training and real-life dogfights and bombing runs apparently help make such people unflappable.

One can spend endless hours dissecting October 7th, a fake genocide claim, Hamas, the Palestinians, etc. Or one can make the topic a very simple choice. The West can once again get rid of its Jews, or it can value their role in society and send away those who are fanning the flames against them. One does not have to like Jews. He can list reasons, real or imagined, why he doesn’t like Jewish people. They have all of the money! They control everything! They are rude! Our religion teaches us to hate them! It doesn’t matter. All of us may have affinities or the opposite towards various groups, and far from this being “racism”, it is called being normal. If a person acts on these feelings, then his behavior might enter the world of racism. A white bus driver doesn’t like blacks and intentionally leaves a station early when he sees a black kid running frantically to reach the door before he takes off.

In a perfect melting-pot society, there would obviously be no choice between keeping your Jews or your Muslims. All immigrant groups put “becoming American” at the top of their to-do lists, and the old country stuff of language, religion, food, dress, etc. was given a back seat. In my helter-skelter grabbing things from my parents’ place, I took a bunch of old yearbooks going back to third grade. It’s........

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