It is very bizarre how the world is viewing the Israel-Hamas War. You have to think about what was done and then realize that Western men and women are looking at it and considering it either not a problem, or not sufficiently bad to warrant a vigorous response.

Let us look at a different world. It is similar to ours, but very different. This is the world of 1876.

In that year, pressed by ages of Turkish brutality and corruption, the peasants of Bulgaria rose in rebellion against their overlords. They fought bravely but they were at last overmatched. After the rebellion was pretty much defeated, the Turkish government unleashed Bashi-bazouks upon the Bulgarian populace. These were part of the Turkish army but they were irregular and unpaid; their pay was what they could extract from a subject population. The Turks turned them loose into what became an orgy or rape, murder and looting. Nobody to this day knows how many died; probably tens of thousands. It was quite horrific and when word of it got out the whole of the West arose in anger. There were demands for punishment and reform; it touched off a war between Russia and Turkey and, in the end, lead to an independent Bulgaria because nobody in the West could allow a Turk to rule a Bulgar after that. You know: they had proved themselves inhuman savages.

This shows us that events like 10/7 are, sadly, not all that uncommon. Men, being what they are, can at times descend into the worst savagery. Nobody can really know what makes a man decide it is a good idea to rape, murder and pillage, but it does happen. The difference between then and now is the supine cowardice of the West in the face of it. What the Palestinians did on 10/7 was a horror beyond horror. If it had just been killing, that would have been bad enough – but it was torture, it was rape, it was humiliation (with some kids forced to watch while their mother was raped and/or their father murdered). The perpetrators of such acts are not covered under law – and this regardless of whatever paper says. They are to be killed by whatever means come to hand. Nothing is to be allowed to spare such beasts. Caught; killed. That’s it. That is how you treat such people – to teach them a lesson…and a lesson to the next batch that the hours of rape and pillage come with a price, so better think again.

This just illustrates how very messed up our world is right now. Solzhenitsyn pointed out that the problem of the 20th century was that it had forgot about God…well, we’re now a century into forgetting about God and we’ve now lost sight of the last shreds of human decency. We excuse. We explain away. We try to find something, anything that gets us off the hook from being human. And do keep in mind that the Israelis are not asking anyone to do it for them; they just want to get it done. There is no effort here. No sacrifice. Just let men do what men have to do.

But that, too, can’t be allowed. If the men of the IDF are allowed to chastise the wrongdoers of Hamas, that would be an indictment of every Western person – every person who allows unvetted savages into his country. Every person who turns a blind eye to the level of crime in some areas of the USA. Every abused child and dishonored woman would then rise up, in a sense, and damn us all for not acting. For not killing those who do that sort of thing. It isn’t that we care about the accused, it is that we’re afraid to do what is necessary. Getting our hands dirty, even if second hand.

I do not think that courage is dead in the USA or the larger West. I think it is hidden. I think it is almost ashamed to step forth. But it will step forth. It will have to. And it will have to kill when it does; in order to provide justice for the oppressed, it can do no other.