It was a year ago. On October 7, 2023, Hamas entered Israel to carry out the worst anti-Semitic pogrom since the Holocaust. Acts of unspeakable barbarity were committed, our brothers and sisters were coldly executed, raped, burned, kidnapped. Babies, children, young people, adults and seniors, the terrorists spared no one. The terrorists, but not only that, with the complicity of the Palestinians who entered Israel or who celebrated over the inert bodies of hostages, spitting on those still alive and hiding them so that they could not be recovered.
A year, and yet it was yesterday. A year during which our soldiers led a remarkable response, a war on 7 fronts. Hamas on the 7th, Hezbollah on the 8th and it has continued since then. Rockets night and day, always targeting the civilian population from densely inhabited areas. They are not only using their population as a human shield to protect themselves from the response, they are starving them, stealing humanitarian aid and blaming Israel. This small Jewish state at the heart of authoritarian Islamic regimes which seeks to destroy them all, this small country abandoned at the mercy of its enemies by its allies.
Since that day, the Iranian regime, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the Houthis in Yemen have joined the war against Israel, sending missiles directly into the national territory or establishing a maritime blockade. All this in the almost moribund silence of the international political class. Despite all this, we have found some rather surprising allies in the European right and far right. The one who once wanted to kill us has become the only one to protect us. The left and the extreme left, on the other hand, found nothing better than to ally themselves with the enemies of France and the Jews out of pure electoralism, while the center stood out for its laxity and inaction, even its compassion for terrorists.
We also found unusual enemies: “Jews”. Those who call themselves decolonial are in fact only the promoters of this anti-Semitic hatred, the useful idiots of the far left to validate their nauseating remarks. Qatar's henchmen and Sharia worshipers have competition.
This massacre was a year ago. A year in which nothing has changed. Our brothers and sisters are still held hostage in Gaza, our pain is still as deep as ever, the war continues and we have to justify our existence every day.
Nothing has changed? This is false. Their hatred has continued to grow, anti-Semitism has become protean and the left has disgraced itself with unnatural alliances. Even those we thought were reasonable ended up falling into the trap of anti-Semitism masked under the guise of anti-Zionism.
Mr. Macron offered his condolences to the Lebanese people after the death of Hezbollah terrorists but not after the death of 12 Israeli children. He also did not find it useful to go to the march against anti-Semitism, even though the numbers were breaking records. But on the eve of the sad anniversary of this anti-Semitic pogrom, he decided that it was reasonable to call for an arms embargo on Israel while the Middle East's only democracy is waging an existential war against Islamic terrorism. What other country than Israel suffers so much international hatred? None, and especially not Islamic dictatorships such as Iran or Qatar. Where were your condemnations when northern Israel received hundreds of missiles daily? When 12 children died in the Hezbollah explosion? How many Jews will have to die to have your compassion?
No, the Jews are no longer in the ghettos, our knees are not shaking. The days of diaspora Jews conforming to what the elites want are over. We have a land, and this land is ours, the land promised by G-d to Abraham, this land that was passed down from generation to generation among our people. Today we defend ourselves, we take up arms to no longer suffer what others have done in the past. We don't wait for anyone's permission to live, and even if it bothers you, we live and we will continue. We don't need your "unfailing friendship" for that.