Iran, Hezbollah launch attacks as Israelis host Passover Seders, sending millions to shelters - Emanuel Fabian, Rossella Tercatin

 

​ by Emanuel Fabian, Rossella Tercatin

Four lightly hurt, including two babies, by bomblet from Iranian cluster warhead that struck Bnei Bnei overnight as Israel comes under attack before and during holiday’s first night

 

Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)

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  Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)
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  Damage caused in Rosh Haayin following an Iranian missile attack, April 1, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)

 

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  Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)
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  Damage caused in Rosh Haayin following an Iranian missile attack, April 1, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)
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  Families celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground shelter, in Ramat Gan, Israel, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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  The scene of an impact from a missile fired from Iran in cdenbtral Israel, April 1, 2026 (Magen David Adom)
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  Israeli forces at the scene of an impact from a missile fired from Iran in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2026 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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• Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)
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  Damage caused in Rosh Haayin following an Iranian missile attack, April 1, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)
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  Families celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground shelter, in Ramat Gan, Israel, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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  The scene of an impact from a missile fired from Iran in cdenbtral Israel, April 1, 2026 (Magen David Adom)
   

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  Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)
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  Damage caused in Rosh Haayin following an Iranian missile attack, April 1, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)
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  Families celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground shelter, in Ramat Gan, Israel, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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  The scene of an impact from a missile fired from Iran in cdenbtral Israel, April 1, 2026 (Magen David Adom)
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  Israeli forces at the scene of an impact from a missile fired from Iran in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2026 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

 

Sirens sounded repeatedly in central Israel Wednesday evening, surrounding the start of Passover, as Iran fired a major ballistic missile barrage and Hezbollah launched rockets from Lebanon, sending millions to bomb shelters and safe rooms as families across the country hosted their Seder meals.

The attacks continued into early Thursday morning, with Iranian ballistic missiles fired at central Israel, the Jerusalem area and the north, while Hezbollah rocket fire from Lebanon triggered sirens near Haifa.

One of the Iranian missiles was carrying a cluster warhead, spreading bomblets across central Israel, with the Magen David Adom ambulance service reporting that a 12-year-old and two 7-month-olds in Bnei Brak were lightly injured from shattered glass.

A 24-year-old was also lightly injured in the same incident, according to MDA. On Wednesday morning there, an 11-year-old girl was injured by shrapnel in another missile strike and she remains in critical condition, the medical service added.

Damage caused in Rosh Haayin following an Iranian missile attack, April 1, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)

The overnight attack on Bnei Brak also damaged a water main in the city. 

עוד פעם בני ברק.
אין מנוחה לעיר הזאת! pic.twitter.com/dq4RKs02CK

— A dios Le pido 👽 (@Yaronara) April 1, 2026

The IDF had previously warned that a missile attack was expected on Seder night, one of the most widely observed Jewish rituals.

According to initial IDF assessments, some 10 ballistic missiles were fired at central Israel, in the largest Iranian salvo on Israel since the early days of the war. Minutes later, sirens again sounded in central and northern Israel, as the IDF detected another Iranian ballistic missile launch, the sixth such salvo of the day.

Around the same time, sirens sounded in the Golan Heights and Galilee due to rocket fire by Hezbollah from Lebanon.

Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)

According to the military, most of the incoming missiles were intercepted. Some missiles were allowed to hit open areas, “according to protocol.”

One Iranian missile, apparently carrying a cluster bomb warhead, spread bomblets in central Israel. Rescue forces said damage was caused to homes and cars in the central cities of Rosh Haayin and Petah Tikva. Another bomblet struck a playground in Petah Tikva, causing damage, footage showed. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

 

תיעוד זירת פגיעת רסיס טיל איראני בפתח תקווה
שימוש לפי סעיף 27א' בחוק זכויות יוצרים@hadasgrinberg pic.twitter.com/gRLFKBm2EQ

— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) April 1, 2026

Iran’s missile fire on Israel had slowed to around 10 to 15 missiles a day in the past two weeks, down from around 90 on the first day of the war. Until Wednesday, Iran had not carried out large missile barrages, with recent attacks composed of a small number of missiles each, usually between one and three.

A short while after Iran’s missile salvo, sirens were triggered once again in central Israel by incoming rocket fire from Hezbollah in Lebanon. According to the IDF, two rockets were allowed to fall in open areas, as they were not intercepted in accordance with the military’s policies.

Hours earlier, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin warned the public of potential attacks by Iran and Hezbollah during the Passover ceremonial feast, saying that the military was on high alert for such an event.

“It is possible that the Iranian terror regime and the Hezbollah terror organization will fire toward the country’s territory, with the aim of harming Israeli civilians during the holiday,” Defrin said in a video statement.

“Our defense systems are deployed and ready to intercept threats across the country,” he said.

“Even on the holiday eve, it is important to remember that the defense is not hermetic,” Defrin said. “I call on you, adhere to the Home Front Command’s instructions.”

Israelis take cover in a public bomb shelter as a siren warns of incoming missiles fired from Iran, March 31, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Defense Minister Israel Katz made a similar appeal to the public, saying: “I want to wish everyone a happy holiday and ask you to adhere to the Home Front Command’s instructions. They save lives and allow the IDF to continue to strike at the enemies. Thank you very much and a happy holiday.”

IDF continues striking Iran

Meanwhile, the IDF announced that during a wave of overnight airstrikes in Tehran, the air force hit some 15 Iranian weapon production sites.

Among the sites was a “central complex” of the Iranian defense ministry, for the production and development of “advanced” anti-aircraft missiles, the military said.

The IDF said it also struck air defense systems, launch sites, and ballistic and anti-aircraft missile manufacturing and storage sites as part of the wave of strikes.

Smoke rises from the site of a strike in Tehran on April 1, 2026. (AFP)

In the past two days, the IDF said it carried out over 400 strikes in Iran, using over 650 munitions.

Western Wall to hold ‘limited’ priestly blessing amid war restrictions

Against the backdrop of the war with Iran, which recently entered its second month, authorities have significantly limited or barred public gathering and worship at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other significant religious sites.

Both the Western Wall plaza and the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount have been closed to visitors, and will remain so throughout the holiday, barring any changes.

The Passover priestly blessing, which usually draws tens of thousands of worshippers to the Western Wall, will be held “with a limited prayer quorum,” according to a joint statement by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the Israel Police, and the Jerusalem Municipality.

A view of the Western Wall plaza, largely empty and closed due to the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah and continued missile fire on Israel, Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The ceremony generally sees male descendants of the Kohanim, the Jewish priestly caste, gather to bestow a benediction — known in Hebrew as Birkat Kohanim — raising their hands to perform the blessing while wrapped in prayer shawls.

Sunday’s ceremony, however, will include just 50 men who will bestow the blessing. The event will be broadcast live.

Under the Home Front Command’s security guidelines, gatherings and services in Jerusalem can take place with up to 50 people, provided that a shelter can be reached within 90 seconds after bomb sirens go off.

A view of the Western Wall plaza, with a single Israeli flag flying (center), empty and closed due to the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah and continued missile fire on Israel, Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Additionally, police and Christian leaders on Monday announced an agreement to allow Easter services to be held amid the security arrangements. The agreement came together after a spat erupted when the Israel Police blocked the top Catholic officials in the region — Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Father Francesco Ielpo, custos of the Holy Land — from praying at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the Palm Sunday holiday, an incident which sparked international furor.

Since the beginning of the war on February 28, the Old City and its surroundings, which include sites holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have been hit by fragments of missiles launched by Iran, causing damage but no casualties.

  

Emanuel Fabian, Rossella Tercatin

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-fires-largest-missile-barrage-in-weeks-as-israelis-set-to-sit-down-for-passover-seder/

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IDF kills 40 Hezbollah terrorists as troops push into Southern Lebanon - Charles Bybelezer

 

​ by Charles Bybelezer

Strikes hit money exchange offices linked to terror financing in Beirut; IDF slays Hajj Yusuf Ismail Hashem, commander of the Shi’ite group’s Southern Front.

 

Israel troops operating in Lebanon, in a photo released on April 2, 2026. Credit: IDF.

( Apr. 2, 2026 / JNS )

The Israel Defense Forces killed more than 40 Hezbollah terrorists and struck dozens of the Iranian proxy’s infrastructure sites in the past 24 hours, the military said on Thursday.

The Israeli Air Force hit headquarters, weapons storage facilities, launch sites and anti-tank missile positions. The Israeli Navy also conducted a precise strike targeting a Hezbollah arms storage facility in Southern Lebanon, the IDF said.

 

On Thursday, IDF troops from the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion killed a Hezbollah terrorist in a close-range encounter, the Israeli military said.

The confrontation took place during a targeted ground operation in which the unit located and seized weapons, military vests, grenades and additional combat equipment at an undisclosed location in Southern Lebanon, the army said.

Two soldiers were lightly wounded and evacuated to the hospital. Their families have been notified, the statement added.

בהתקלות פנים מול פנים: לוחמי סיירת הנח"ל חיסלו מחבל חיזבאללה בדרום לבנון

הבוקר, לוחמי סיירת נח"ל חיסלו מחבל מארגון הטרור חיזבאללה בהתקלות פנים מול פנים במהלך בפעילות קרקעית ממוקדת בדרום לבנון.

לאחר מכן, הכוחות סרקו את המרחב ואיתרו אמצעי הלחימה רבים, בהם: נשקים, ווסטים, רימונים… pic.twitter.com/C42akZwDLm

— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) April 2, 2026

As part of ground operations, IDF soldiers from the 91st “Galilee” Division identified a Hezbollah terrorist cell and eliminated it in a rapid operational response. In addition, the soldiers dismantled observation posts and anti-tank missile launch positions.

IDF troops from the 36th Division, aka the “Rage Formation,” continued operating in Southern Lebanon, eliminating three armed terrorists on motorcycles who posed a threat, while soldiers from the 146th Reserve Division destroyed more than 180 terror sites, including anti-tank launch positions, observation posts, underground hideouts and weapons storage facilities.

Israeli soldiers of the 162nd Armored Division, aka the “Steel Formation,” located arms, including anti-tank missiles, Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition and grenades.

“The IDF continues to operate decisively against the Hezbollah terror organization. The IDF will act to remove the threat posed to Israeli civilians,” the military said.

The Israel Defense Forces overnight Wednesday struck two money exchange offices in the Beirut area used to finance Hezbollah. The sites were identified as “Boa Chance,” owned by Hussein Ibrahim, and “Trade Point International,” owned by Mohamad Noureddine.

Hezbollah’s systematic use of money exchange offices for terror financing and money laundering—uncovered by the IDF a year ago—is one of the group’s primary methods for channeling and concealing Iranian funds, the IDF said.

צה"ל תקף שני אתרי חלפנות כספים ששימשו למימון ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה

צה"ל תקף הלילה בביירות שני אתרי חלפנות כספים ששימשו כמקור מימון משמעותי עבור פעילות הטרור של ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה.

שני האתרים הם "בואה צ'אנס", בבעלות חסין אבראהים וחלפנות "טרייד פוינט אינטרנשיונל" בבעלות מחמד נור… pic.twitter.com/CaHRK0Rrf7

— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) April 1, 2026

Meanwhile, the Israeli Navy on Tuesday conducted a strike in Beirut that killed Hajj Yusuf Ismail Hashem, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front. The unit is responsible for carrying out terrorist activities against Israeli civilians and conducting combat operations against IDF soldiers in Southern Lebanon.

As commander of the unit, Hashem led the rehabilitation of Hezbollah and directed rocket launches and other “hostile aerial attacks” toward Israeli territory.

Over the years, he was also responsible for the Nasser, Aziz and Badr units, which were tasked with fighting IDF soldiers in Southern Lebanon and with firing rockets at the State of Israel.

Hashem, a senior commander with more than 40 years of experience in the Iranian terror proxy, assumed command of Hezbollah’s Southern Front following the elimination of Ali Karaki alongside Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024.

Charles Bybelezer

Source: https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/idf-hits-hezbollah-funding-sites-in-beirut-kills-southern-front-commander

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IAF strikes 400 regime targets in Iran, drops 650 munitions in 48 hours - Charles Bybelezer

 

​ by Charles Bybelezer

Israeli Air Force tanker aircraft have supported the operations, conducting approximately 2,000 aerial refuelings.

 

An Israeli Air Force F-16I “Sufa” fighter jet during operations in Iran and Lebanon, March 31, 2026. Credit: Israeli Air Force.

( Apr. 2, 2026 / JNS )

The Israeli Air Force dropped some 650 munitions on about 400 targets linked to the Iranian regime over the past 48 hours, including sites in the heart of Tehran, the military said on Wednesday night.

The IDF further degraded the regime’s capabilities, striking approximately 15 weapons manufacturing sites, including a central complex of the Iranian Ministry of Defense that housed a production and development facility intended for missiles to be launched at aircraft.

In parallel, the IDF struck air defense systems, launch sites, and facilities for the production and storage of ballistic missiles.

On Wednesday, the IAF hit a base belonging to the Ground Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IAF also hit the IRGC’s central headquarters in Tehran, which was used to manage budgets for security bodies and fund military and terror activities worldwide.

The funds were routed through the headquarters to strengthen Iran’s armed forces, including the production of thousands of ballistic missiles and other weapons. They were also used to build up the regime’s internal security forces and the Basij militia, which have been responsible for killing thousands of civilians during protests.

In addition, the funds were distributed to the Iranian regime’s regional terror proxies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen, which are responsible for deadly attacks against Israel and others.

Since the start of “Operation Roaring Lion” on Feb. 28, hundreds of IAF combat aircraft have operated in Iranian airspace, attacking targets linked to the regime.

IAF tanker aircraft have supported the missions, conducting approximately 2,000 aerial refuelings.

In recent days, the IDF said it identified that the Iranian regime had begun relocating its command centers into mobile units, with commanders operating from within them, and targeted at least one such unit.

In addition, a ballistic missile storage site belonging to a unit in the Tabriz area was also struck, as part of ongoing efforts to degrade the regime’s capabilities.

“The completed strikes are part of the phase focused on deepening the damage to the core systems and foundations of the Iranian terror regime,” said the IDF.

Earlier this week, the IAF struck in Tehran and eliminated Jamshid Eshaqi—the commander of the Oil Headquarters for the Iranian regime’s forces. The Oil Headquarters enabled the continuation of its activities and military buildup through profits from oil sales, the IDF said.

For years, Eshaqi led the regime’s financial apparatus and military industries responsible for the production of ballistic missiles and mechanisms of repression. He also worked to allocate funds to finance Iran’s proxies across the Middle East, most notably Hezbollah and the Houthis.

According to the IDF, the IRGC and other Iranian military bodies have been financed through vast budgets sourced from oil sales, while circumventing international sanctions.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Adm. Brad Cooper said on Thursday that the campaign was making “undeniable progress” following a month of sustained strikes on the Islamic Republic’s military assets.

“We don’t see their navy sailing. We don’t see their aircraft flying, and their air and missile defense systems have largely been destroyed,” he said.

Charles Bybelezer

Source: https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/idf-strikes-400-regime-targets-in-iran-drops-650-munitions-in-48-hours

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A Foolish NATO Was a Big Loser in the Iran War - Victor Davis Hanson

 

​ by Victor Davis Hanson

NATO endures on American backing while many allies demand U.S. action abroad but withhold it when asked, exposing a widening gap between rhetoric and responsibility.

 

 

NATO members are not legally required to join any member’s military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership.

But they often do just that.

Some NATO members joined the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq on the theory that, in the post-9/11 environment, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were dangers to all Western security.

They followed the precedent set by America’s 1999 intervention in the distant Balkans, leading a three-month NATO campaign to dismantle Slobodan Milošević’s often bloody ambitions of a Greater Serbia. The U.S. also joined the 2011 U.N.-approved, and French- and British-inspired, NATO “coalition of the willing” bombing campaign in Libya.

That effort proved a seven-month misadventure—especially since the targeted Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had given up his nuclear weapons program and was desperately trying to cut a deal with the West.

When NATO members in the past have operated unilaterally to defend their own national interests, they have often called on the U.S., as NATO’s strongest member, for overt help.

For nearly 40 years, the U.S. had offered logistical, intelligence, reconnaissance, refueling, and diplomatic support to the French in their unilateral and postcolonial efforts to protect Chad from Libya and, later, Islamists.

During the 1982 Falklands War, a solitary Britain faced enormous logistical challenges in steaming halfway around the world to eject Argentina from its windswept and sparse islands.

U.S. aid was critical to the effort.

So America stepped up to help with intelligence, reconnaissance, the supply of some two million gallons of much-needed gasoline, and crucial restocking of Britain’s depleted Tomahawk missiles.

The American tilt to Britain prompted anger from most Latin American nations of the shared Western hemisphere, as well as from many Hispanic American citizens at home.

No matter—Ronald Reagan rightly saw the importance of solidarity with a NATO member and a long-time American ally. So he gave Britain a veritable blank check for American aid.

Currently, America has not asked NATO members to help bomb Iran—even though Europe, not the U.S., was in range of Iranian ballistic missiles, and soon perhaps nuclear-tipped ones as well.

Europeans are far more vulnerable to Iranian-inspired Islamic terrorism. They are more reliant on foreign oil from the Middle East, some of it passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

All the U.S. had initially asked for was basing support in disarming a common Western enemy that, for nearly half a century, has slaughtered American diplomats and soldiers and tried to kill a U.S. president and secretary of state.

But most NATO members could not even offer tacit help. Some damned the U.S. effort as either illegal or unnecessary.

The American public watched the British waffle for days over permitting Americans to use their Diego Garcia base.

The Spanish banned American use of their NATO bases and airspace.

The Italians refused a request from American bombers to land and refuel at a Sicilian NATO base.

Many NATO heads of state rebuked the U.S. to their domestic audiences while, in typical two-faced fashion, publicly offering empty verbal support for the U.S. effort.

The NATO response to an Iranian missile aimed at fellow NATO member Turkey was anemic.

Even worse was the pathetic British reaction to another Iranian missile launch at a British base at Akrotiri, Cyprus.

Yet a successful American effort in neutering a theocratic Iran was clearly of benefit to Europe. So is preventing the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz from becoming a toll booth run by the Iranian mullahs.

Such passivity was in sharp contrast to the five-year-long Ukraine War on the borders of Europe.

Ukraine was not in NATO.

Ukrainian politicos and ambassadors had sometimes played an intrusive, partisan role in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 American presidential elections.

Nonetheless, there were urgent European requests for the U.S. to honor the spirit of NATO solidarity and to get across the Atlantic as quickly as possible to protect the territorial integrity of Europe.

Yet continental Europe is not intrinsically weak. The combined population of the European Union and European NATO members is around 450 million—a population more than 100 million greater than that of the U.S.

These same European nations enjoy an aggregate annual GDP of more than $22 trillion, 10 times the size of the Russian economy.

European diffidence comes on top of the perennial American effort to harangue NATO members to honor their 2 percent of GDP defense commitments—especially in the case of deadbeat Spain and Canada, who for years welched on their pledges.

Trump’s harangues were not what was undermining NATO.

Instead, he ripped off a happy-face scab and exposed a festering wound of increasingly anti-American hypocrisy beneath.

If you wanted to wreck the alliance, there would be no better way than to follow the duplicitous examples of Western European NATO members. 

Photo: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte gives a press conference about NATO's general annual report in Brussels on March 26, 2026. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) 

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004, and is the 2023 Giles O'Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer (growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author of the just released New York Times best seller, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, published by Basic Books on May 7, 2024, as well as the recent  The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump, and The Dying Citizen.

Source: https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/02/a-foolish-nato-was-a-big-loser-in-the-iran-war/

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Egypt's Dangerous Muslim Brotherhood Organization - Khaled Abu Toameh

 

​ by Khaled Abu Toameh

The Muslim Brotherhood has long mastered the art of dual messaging. To the West, it presents itself as a network of charities, activists, community leaders and political organizers. Yet the same organization is, in Egypt and elsewhere, linked to terror cells, assassins, and attempts to carry out mass-casualty attacks.

 

• Details emerging from recent investigations are chilling.

• These men are not "political activists." They are terrorists embedded in an organized network.

• The Muslim Brotherhood has long mastered the art of dual messaging. To the West, it presents itself as a network of charities, activists, community leaders and political organizers. Yet the same organization is, in Egypt and elsewhere, linked to terror cells, assassins, and attempts to carry out mass-casualty attacks.

• By failing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in its entirety, Western governments are allowing it to entrench itself politically, financially, and socially within Western societies.

• If the US and its allies are truly committed to confronting extremism, they seriously need to confront the Muslim Brotherhood in all its forms, not just when it explodes into violence.

• A full designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization would disrupt its funding networks, restrict its operations and send a clear message that extremism, whether disguised as political activism or expressed through terrorism, will not be tolerated.

The Muslim Brotherhood has long mastered the art of dual messaging. To the West, it presents itself as a network of charities, activists, community leaders and political organizers. Yet the same organization is, in Egypt and elsewhere, linked to terror cells, assassins, and attempts to carry out mass-casualty attacks. If the US and its allies are truly committed to confronting extremism, they seriously need to confront the Muslim Brotherhood in all its forms, not just when it explodes into violence. Pictured: The logo of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Many Westerners, it seems, still choose to believe a lie: that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is a political and social movement that can be engaged, moderated, and safely accommodated within democratic systems.

This belief is both mistaken and dangerous.

Recent developments in Egypt expose an alarming reality that should shake not only the Egyptians, but also the US and other Western countries.

In late March, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced that security forces successfully dismantled a major terrorist infrastructure linked to the Muslim Brotherhood's armed wing, HASM (Harakat Sawaid Misr, "Arms of Egypt Movement"). Details emerging from recent investigations are chilling.

At the center of the plot was Mahmoud Mohamed Abdel Wanis, a prominent member of HASM who confessed to receiving advanced military training, including in sniper tactics, explosives, and anti-aircraft weaponry.

The plot included directing terrorists Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Razek, Ahmed Ghoneim and Ihab Abdel Latif Mohamed Abdel Qader to carry out a series of attacks against security facilities across Egypt.

According to the Egyptian authorities, Abdel Wanis received multiple sentences in terrorism-related cases, including life imprisonment for attempting to target the presidential aircraft in 2022.

Abdel Wanis targeted several prominent figures, including the attempted assassination of the late Judge Nagy Shehata in 2015. He was further involved in the assassinations of army Major General Adel Ragaey in October 2016 and police Lieutenant Colonel Maged Abdel Razek in April 2019.

Abdel Wanis also murdered three people and wounded four others in an attack on the Agizi checkpoint in Monufia in August 2016. Nearly a year later, he murdered two police personnel and wounded 17 others in a bomb attack on a police training center in Tanta, Gharbia in April 2017.

The Ministry of Interior stated that Abdel Wanis was also involved in a car bombing attack, in which 20 people were murdered and another 47 wounded, outside the National Cancer Institute in Cairo in August 2019.

HASM founder Hossam Menoufi was arrested by Egyptian authorities after his flight from Sudan to Turkey made an emergency landing in Luxor in 2022.

These men are not "political activists." They are terrorists embedded in an organized network.

The Muslim Brotherhood's strategy goes far beyond bombs and bullets. It also relies on propaganda, deception and long-term infiltration.

Egyptian authorities have documented the movement's extensive efforts to weaponize online news outlets and social media platforms to incite unrest, spread disinformation, and destabilize the state from within.

According to official findings, Muslim Brotherhood terrorists have established media platforms designed to inflame public anger, recruit followers, and prepare the ground for violence. The Midan Foundation, described by authorities as HASM's "political and media arm," was found to have spread fake news, false and misleading information, and rumors about Egypt's domestic affairs to incite Egyptians to resort to violence against the state.

The combination of terrorism and recent torrents of information warfare is precisely what makes the Muslim Brotherhood so dangerous. Since its founding in 1928, the organization has pursued a consistent objective: to reshape society according to its ideological vision of conquering the world for Islam and establishing a Caliphate. Through a mix of religious outreach, social services, media influence, and political activism -- as well as terrorism -- it seeks to establish Islamist rule based on Sharia law. The Muslim Brotherhood slogan, "Islam is the solution," is not merely rhetoric. It is a strategy for gaining power, pursued step by step.

Egypt designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in 2013. Since then, the state's security services have repeatedly exposed networks involved in financing, planning, and executing terror attacks.

In 2019, Egyptian authorities targeted "19 economic entities which are secretly run by the [Muslim Brotherhood] leaders," estimated to be worth 250 million Egyptian pounds (about $15 million at that time), that were allegedly being used to fund activities to destabilize the state. Egyptian authorities also thwarted a plot orchestrated by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey, with the aid of accomplices in Egypt, designed to undermine security and stability in the latter country.

What the Muslim Brotherhood does in Egypt, however, quickly spreads.

Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks have long been operating across Europe and the US, often under the banner of advocacy groups, and civil society and community organizations.

The Muslim Brotherhood and its followers promote a worldview that rejects core Western principles such as secular governance, individual liberties, and the separation of religion and state.

The organization, in addition, has a long history of embedding itself within educational institutions, charities, and political advocacy networks to influence public discourse and policymaking and gradually normalize its ideology, based on the notion that Islam is a comprehensive worldwide system governing all aspects of life.

All this is not accidental. It is how the organization operates.

The latest revelations from Egypt should serve as a wake-up call. The Muslim Brotherhood is not merely a political movement. It is a disciplined ideological organization that combines political activism, propaganda and violence to achieve its goals.

The Muslim Brotherhood has long mastered the art of dual messaging. To the West, it presents itself as a network of charities, activists, community leaders and political organizers. Yet the same organization is, in Egypt and elsewhere, linked to terror cells, assassins, and attempts to carry out mass-casualty attacks.

This is not a contradiction. It is a strategy.

By failing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in its entirety, Western governments are allowing it to entrench itself politically, financially, and socially within Western societies.

If the US and its allies are truly committed to confronting extremism, they seriously need to confront the Muslim Brotherhood in all its forms, not just when it explodes into violence.

A full designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization would disrupt its funding networks, restrict its operations and send a clear message that extremism, whether disguised as political activism or expressed through terrorism, will not be tolerated.

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Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22399/egypt-dangerous-muslim-brotherhood

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European allies react with 'shock and anxiety' to Trump threat to withdraw from NATO - Eric J. Lyman

 

​ by Eric J. Lyman

The Israeli- and U.S.-lad conflict with Iran is causing an 'existential' rift among members of the 77-year-old NATO alliance

 

European media responded to President Donald Trump’s remarks about the United States leaving NATO as an “existential threat” to the 77-year-old security alliance.

Speaking with The Telegraph, a right-of-center British daily newspaper, Trump called the alliance a “paper tiger” and said he was “strongly considering” withdrawing from the 32-nation pact. Trump’s comments come after repeated criticisms of NATO member states for not joining the Israeli- and U.S.-led conflict with Iran.

In the latest developments, Spain, France, and Italy refused U.S. access to their military bases or airspace for military actions against Iran. 

“I was never swayed by NATO,” Trump said. “I always knew they were a paper tiger, and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin knows that, too.”

Thirty of 32 NATO member states are in Europe (the U.S. and Canada are the exceptions). Israel is not a member of the alliance. 

The Guardian, another U.K. newspaper, said Trump’s remarks represented an “existential threat” that could be the “worst crisis in NATO history.” In Spain, El País said there was “shock and anxiety across Europe.”

Among the European Union’s three largest economies, German media stressed that the Israeli and U.S. bombings of Iranian targets were “not our war” and said it was “correct” for the government to reject U.S. demands for support.

French media pursued a similar line, stressing that NATO was created to assure trans-Atlantic security, not offensive missions in the Middle East. 

Italy, meanwhile, tried to balance ties with the U.S. and European and NATO allies, trying to organize a coalition to discuss strategies to assure security in the Gulf region without entering the conflict.

Trump might not be able to follow through on his threat to leave the NATO alliance due to a 2023 U.S. law that “prohibits any withdrawal from NATO” without approval from two-thirds of the U.S. Senate. 

Eric J. Lyman

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/european-allies-react-trump-threat-withdraw-nato

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Bondi removed as attorney general - Natalie Mittelstadt

 

​ by Natalie Mittelstadt

Speculation about Attorney General Pam Bondi has persisted for months, in large part over what has been considered her mishandling of the Epstein files and her failure to prosecute President Trump's political enemies

 

Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired from her post on Thursday.

Bondi will be replaced, at least temporarily, by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Trump said.

"Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year," Trump posted on Truth Social.

"Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Blanche posted on X on Thursday, sharing Trump's post, writing, "Pam Bondi led this Department with strength and conviction and I’m grateful for her leadership and friendship. Thank you to President Trump for the trust and the opportunity to serve as Acting Attorney General. We will continue backing the blue, enforcing the law, and doing everything in our power to keep America safe."

Speculation about Bondi has persisted for months, in large part over what has been considered her mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, failure to prosecute Trump's political enemies, and an inability to get U.S. attorneys appointed. She also reportedly fell out of favor with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

Bondi is a former Florida attorney general. 

Natalie Mittelstadt

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/bondi-removed-attorney-general

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Trump’s Iran address scores headlines he sought and makes clear Hormuz is not his battle - Amanda Head

 

​ by Amanda Head

Nearly all of legacy media dropped identical headlines, enforcing to the American public what Trump needed them to – that the end in Iran is nigh.

 

President Donald Trump on Wednesday night delivered an address to the nation that achieved the legacy media headlines he needed to be displayed for the American people and made an unequivocal America-first declaration that the issues surrounding the Strait of Hormuz are not America's problem.

"We produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined," Trump said in a prime-time White House address. "And we're in great shape for the future. The U.S. imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won't be taking any in the future. We don't need it."  

In the address, Trump also assured Americans that the conflict with Iran will soon come to an end, which is exactly the headline he needed and the headline that most of the legacy media led with in their coverage. 

CNN featured the headline, "Trump says Iran war is 'nearing completion' in address to the nation," similar to the Washington Post's "Trump defends decision to attack Iran, says conflict is 'nearing completion.'" 

The Wall Street Journal also mimicked the sentiment with its headline, "Trump says U.S. 'Very Close' to Finishing War in Address." 

Polls have consistently shown that despite rhetoric from some anti-war Republicans, much of Trump's base supports and trusts him on Iran, on which the U.S. and Israel began launching air attacks on Feb. 28. 

A POLITICO Public First poll, from March 13-18, showed that 81% of self-identified MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters are on Trump's side on the Iran issue. 

Perhaps that's because Trump has been unambiguous. 

"I made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We are going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong," he said Wednesday night.

In what appeared to be open negotiations with China, and perhaps an expression of a need for urgency on China's part, Trump passively suggested that other nations that utilize oil through the strait need to be the ones to protect it. 

"The countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage. They must cherish it," he said. "They should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on."

In recent years (including 2025 data), roughly 40–50% of China's crude oil imports have transited the strait, primarily from Middle Eastern suppliers such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Oman and (often unreported) Iran.

This represents about half of China's total crude oil imports coming from the Gulf region, with China receiving the largest share (around 37–38%) of all oil and condensate flowing through the strait.

Trump continued the pressure campaign: "So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion. Number one: buy oil from the United States. We have plenty of it. And number two: build up some delayed courage. Go to the strait and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves." 

Trump earlier Wednesday faced questions about the timeline of the conflict, but in his address appeared more direct and specific on what's needed to bring it to a conclusion, which, according to Trump, is the completion of its military objectives.

Those objectives include destroying Iran's ballistic missile arsenal, launchers, and production/industrial capacity; annihilating their navy; ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon; and severing Iran's support for an ability to arm, fund or direct terrorist proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.

According to the administration, ballistic missile attacks by Iran are down 90%, drone attacks are down 90%, and US forces have struck over 11,000 Iranian targets. The United States has damaged or destroyed over 66% of Iranian missile, drone and naval production facilities and shipyards.

Trump also highlighted the momentum that began during his first term to end Iran's nuclear capabilities. 

"This situation has been going on for 47 years and should've been handled long before I arrived in office," he said. "I did many things during my two terms in office to stop the quest for nuclear weapons by Iran. First, and perhaps most importantly, I killed the general in my first term. ... If he lived we probably would've been having different conversations."

The president also took time during his address to praise U.S. armed forces for delivering overwhelming victories that have left Iran's "Navy gone and its Air Force in ruins." 

He also expressed condolences and lamented the "13 American warriors who have laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran."

Trump reinforced the importance of ending the tyrannical regime in Iran, which many previous presidents have sought to achieve. 

"From the very first day I announced my campaign for president in 2015, I have vowed that I would never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This fanatical regime has been chanting 'death to America,' 'death to Israel' for 47 years."

According to Trump, the regime in Iran was quickly developing a "vast stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles, and would soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland, Europe, and virtually any other place on earth." 

Amanda Head

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-scores-headlines-he-wanted-and-makes-clear-hormuz-not-his-battle

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A Free World Opportunity - Drieu Godefridi

 

​ by Drieu Godefridi

Although the Bible is also filled with violent passages, such as the eschatological Book of Revelation, these are mainly descriptive accounts of events: what took place or will take place. Islam is proscriptive: what you must do

 

• The possible destruction of the mullahs' regime in Iran would not merely represent a geopolitical victory; it would mark the dawn of an era in which the idea that all human societies must be governed by Allah's law and not by men could finally be escorted back to where it came from.

• Of course not all Muslims are extremists. Many might even wish to leave Islam – if doing so were not regarded by their coreligionists as apostasy, punishable by death. As Qaradawi admitted on Egyptian television in 2013, "If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment [death], Islam would not exist today."

• Although the Bible is also filled with violent passages, such as the eschatological Book of Revelation, these are mainly descriptive accounts of events: what took place or will take place. Islam is proscriptive: what you must do

• Keep in mind that even if a court were to rule that "Kill the Jews" and "Kill the infidels" fall into this category, the late Arab leader Yasser Arafat would simply say, "You know what to do."

• People in the Free World, including Muslims, often themselves targets of extremist pressure, deserve a society in which faith remains for everyone a private matter of personal choice, free from coercion or death threats.

The possible destruction of the mullahs' regime in Iran would not merely represent a geopolitical victory; it would mark the dawn of an era in which the idea that all human societies must be governed by Allah's law and not by men could finally be escorted back to where it came from. Pictured: A funeral procession in Tehran, memorializing senior officers from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who were killed in Israeli strikes, on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

In the turmoil of revolutions and the fall of empires, history sometimes seems to extend a helping hand: the opportunity, in this instance, to end at least one expansionist movement that has been threatening the West. The possible destruction of the mullahs' regime in Iran would not merely represent a geopolitical victory; it would mark the dawn of an era in which the idea that all human societies must be governed by Allah's law and not by men could finally be escorted back to where it came from.

For 47 years, the mullahs' regime has not only oppressed its own people; it has also served as a center for much of the terrorism that has bloodied the planet. From the 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut to financing Hezbollah, Hamas and Al-Qaeda, Tehran has exported its "Revolution" to the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The fall of the ayatollahs would offer an unprecedented opportunity.

The objective would be to declare and enforce an alternate set of laws in the West and the Free World that would uphold the values of individual freedom and equality before the law and that would be incompatible with a set of theocratic laws demanding supremacy.

The seventh-century expansionist Islamic ideology openly calls for jihad (holy war), which entails the extermination of Jews, Christians and all other so-called "infidels."

"Allah has indeed purchased from the believers their lives and wealth in exchange for Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah and kill or are killed. This is a true promise binding on Him in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran. And whose promise is truer than Allah's? So rejoice in the exchange you have made with Him. That is ˹truly˺ the ultimate triumph."
— Quran 9:111 , Al-Baqarah.

The hadiths – the ascribed sayings and deeds of Mohammad, some written more than 200 years after his death – (from Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim) describes an apocalyptic battle:

"Allah's Messenger said, 'You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews until some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.'"
— Sahih al-Bukhari (Book 56, Hadith 139).

Mainstream scholars often interpret this declaration as eschatological (end-of-times), not a current command. However, Islamists (Hamas, preachers in mosques, jihadist propaganda) cite it as motivation for present-day violence or genocide. The founding charter of Hamas explicitly quotes the hadith above almost verbatim at the end of Article 7, presenting it as Allah's and Mohammad's promise, and using it to religiously justify the murder of all Jews:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees."

This hadith has been invoked in sermons by imams in Copenhagen, U.S. mosques and by groups such as Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS to justify attacks. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi (1926-2022), a "long time Muslim Brotherhood leader," discussed this hadith in his book Fatwa on Palestine. Qaradawi describes the hadith as "one of the miracles of our Prophet" and frames the battle as an inevitable religious confrontation between all Muslims and all Jews -- not merely a political or territorial dispute -- a precondition for Judgment Day. ISIS spokesman Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari called for all-out war against Jews until the "battle of stones and trees," portraying it as inevitable:

"Diversify the attacks: detonate explosives, burn them with grenades and fiery agents, shoot them with bullets, cut their throats with sharp knives, and run them over with vehicles. A sincere person will not lack the means to draw blood from the hearts of the Jews, the Christians, and their allies, and thus ease the suffering in the hearts of the believers."

Political Islam is profoundly trapped in a fantasized Middle Ages in which reason bows to dogma and women bow to the whip.

From Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwas (religious opinions) in 1979, which "labels Kurds as infidels," to public executions in 2025 for "enmity against God" or "corruption on Earth," Iran embodies this extremism. After Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Khomeini issued several fatwas and directives that legitimized violent, often fatal, actions against opponents, consolidating the Islamic Republic's power through systematic bloodshed. These decrees targeted specific political groups, ethnic minorities, and individuals deemed to be "spreading corruption on earth" or "enemies of Allah":

"Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and spread mischief in the land is death, crucifixion, cutting off their hands and feet on opposite sides, or exile from the land."
— Quran, Al Maidah 5:33

The disappearance of Iran's regime would create a void that could be filled by a less violent set of values – instead of the same or worse.

My criticism is directed only at individuals who do not aspire to living harmoniously with others who may not share their lifestyles or beliefs. Of course not all Muslims are extremists. Many might even wish to leave Islam – if doing so were not regarded by their coreligionists as apostasy, punishable by death. As Qaradawi admitted on Egyptian television in 2013, "If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment [death], Islam would not exist today."

Although the Bible is also filled with violent passages, such as the eschatological Book of Revelation, these are mainly descriptive accounts of events: what took place or will take place. Islam is proscriptive: what you must do:

"And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush."
— Qur'an, Al-Tawbah, 9:5 (Sahih International translation).

"Kill them wherever you come upon them¹ and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out. For persecution² is far worse than killing. And do not fight them at the Sacred Mosque unless they attack you there. If they do so, then fight them—that is the reward of the disbelievers."
— Qur'an, Al-Baqarah, 2:191 (Dr. Mustaf Khattab translation)

"I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip."
— Qur'an, Al-Anfal, 8:12 (Sahih International translation)

Despite the New Testament possibly having tempered violence somewhat, violence has nevertheless had a way of overriding the message of love -- in the name of preserving Christianity. There have historically been some unfortunate rough patches, such as the Crusades, the Inquisition or the Salem Witch Trials. Racial and religious violence finally seems to have slowed down only with the Reformation, the Enlightenment and, one hopes, the Age of Reason, thereby gradually allowing the West to harmonize with modernity.

Our criticism must be directed only at individuals who do not aspire to harmonious and productive lives.

As Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan noted on Kanal D TV's Arena television, on August 21, 2007, as reported by Milliyet, "There is no moderate Islam. Islam is Islam."

What has been said is that a large part of Islam seems to be a political movement using religion as a force multiplier.

The problem in the West and the Free World is that many of Islam's tenets stand in direct opposition to the very idea of democracy. When laws are combined with words that are said to be divine -- the direct word from God -- there is not much room for compromise or debate. The same is true of the Ten Commandments. One cannot say, "Surely God did not really mean that nonsense about Thou shalt not murder -- or adultery." The Bible, however, consists mostly of stories.

The entire Qur'an, on the other hand, is by many taken to be the word of God -- like the Ten Commandments on steroids. There remains, therefore, only submission: the literal translation of the Arabic word "Islam." From the founding writings of the Muslim Brotherhood, such as those of Sayyid Qutb in the 1960s, which justify jihad against "unbelieving" regimes, to the 1988 Hamas charter calling, in Article 7, for the genocide of Jews, the political agenda of Islam unfortunately appears incompatible with any open society.

Modern Muslim societies, Qutb argued, had reverted to a state of jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance) because they did not follow Sharia law and had replaced divine sovereignty with human sovereignty.

It is therefore time for a debate on how to prevent these values -- imported by many new arrivals and gaining political traction as the number of voters subscribing to these views increases demographically -- from overwhelming the values of the West. Inciting terrorism or murder has never been a matter of freedom of expression. Should there be a ban in Europe — comparable to that of Nazism in German democracy? Would that constitute intolerance, or, rather, refusing to tolerate intolerance?

In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the US Supreme Court ruled that speech which intentionally incites immediate or imminent illegal action, and which has a high probability of actually provoking imminent illegal action, does not fall within the scope of "free speech." Keep in mind that even if a court were to rule that "Kill the Jews" and "Kill the infidels" fall into this category, the late Arab leader Yasser Arafat would simply say, "You know what to do."

The debate on the criminalization of political Islam in the West is systematically undermined by the idea of complexity. Mixing religion with politics in some quarters might supposedly be considered "too complex" even to be discussed. This excuse seems a smokescreen. A doctrine that calls for the massacre of non-Muslims and the eventual eradication of any voice that disagrees with anything Islamic should by definition be considered unwelcome.

To paraphrase how author and journalist Douglas Murray framed the situation in one of his many British interviews: Supposing a group from Wales went to Somalia and said, "We want Somalia to be just like Wales," how do you think the Somalis would react?

People in the Free World, including Muslims, often themselves targets of extremist pressure, deserve a society in which faith remains for everyone a private matter of personal choice, free from coercion or death threats.

Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain), philosopher (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain) and PhD in legal theory (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He is an entrepreneur, CEO of a European private education group and director of PAN Medias Group. He is the author of The Green Reich (2020).

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22367/free-world-opportunity

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