Coming Soon to a Country Near You

The horrific scenes of missile strikes on residential areas and hospitals in Israel should make us shudder twice: Once for the death and destruction we see in the videos, and again for ourselves, as we catch a glimpse of our own future.

Developments in drone and missile technology have changed the face of warfare and terrorism, and blurred the line between the two. You don’t need a trillion-dollar military budget to afford these weapons. Any Tom, Dick, or Ahmed can acquire and stockpile them. When they are launched in huge quantities, there appears to be no airtight defense.

The Arab states and the various terrorist gangs of the Middle East have always enjoyed a number of advantages over Israel that stem from the asymmetrical nature of the conflict. The first is that the Arabs (and the current Iranian regime) make no distinction between military and civilian targets/combatants. They can therefore use drones and missiles as instruments of terror, as they did from Gaza (Hamas) and Lebanon (Hizbollah). And they never have to fear that Israel will turn around and do the same to them. It has never happened, despite the phony mise en scène by the Arabs and their sympathizers in the West.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has assured the Iranian people that the war is being fought against the regime, not against them. Could you imagine an Iranian leader making such a statement? They can’t even bring themselves to acknowledge the Israelis as citizens of a country, or even as human beings. It’s always the “Zionist entity,” populated by the evil Jew infidels.

Another key advantage derived from the asymmetrical nature of the conflict is that the Israelis, since 1948, are fighting to survive; the Arabs are fighting to destroy. The Jewish state has always been one defeat away from annihilation, whereas nobody seriously fears that Egypt or Jordan or Iran will be wiped off the face of the earth, their inhabitants massacred. This asymmetry, combined with the overwhelming advantage in land mass and population, means that the Arabs and Iran can expend their resources on terror, without having to worry too much about military effectiveness, strictly speaking. No matter what happens, no matter how irrational and tactically unsound their behavior, they will still be here tomorrow. The Israelis, obviously, do not have that luxury.

Throughout the history of the Arab-Israel conflict, after the Israelis conquer a bit of territory, they almost always withdraw. Every instance, such as their relinquishing of the Sinai peninsula as part of the Camp David accords, has proven to be a monumental blunder. In 1982, Israel flushed the PLO out of southern Lebanon, held the territory for a number of years, and then pulled out. Hizbollah, backed by Iran, filled the void. We all know the result. Gaza, the site of numerous wars and operations to stamp out the terror apparatus, was also relinquished, as a key element of the Oslo “peace accords” fiasco. It took about a week to see where that was going.

It is impossible to conclude sustainable treaties or “deals” in this environment. Americans, generally having no personal experience of the Middle East, can be excused for considering such folly. But what about the Israelis? Why do they repeatedly fall into the trap, only to get burned every time? I would say it is a combination of unrelenting international pressure; the machinations of their own Leftist Establishment; high sensitivity to casualties; and sheer exhaustion, compounded over decades of confrontation with their violent, fanatical antagonists. Israelis pretend that peace is possible, or else hope to buy a few years worth of quiet with each concession, knowing in the back of their minds that the Arabs will inevitably revert to form.

North America and Western Europe are now facing an existential challenge with eerie similarities. On both continents, there is an alarming growth of extraterritoriality for ethnic enclaves within the boundaries of the host countries. In Europe, the Muslim takeover is accelerating. In America, we are inundated with hostile foreign populations; the current flash point is an irredentist movement, La Raza, with its stronghold in southern California. We are rapidly approaching a regime of de facto autonomy. In Los Angeles, an enormous district of illegal aliens has formed, becoming a city-within-a-city in which the nominal civil authority dare not flex its muscles. The inhabitants of this dominion (and their enablers) were shocked that the Trump Administration attempted to enforce American sovereignty on what the separatists consider to be their exclusive territory.

In other words, we are seeing the emergence of our own Gaza. Following the playbook of the perpetually seething Palestinian Arabs, the Aztlanistas can transform themselves into a violent mob at the drop of a hat. Moreover, they do not distinguish between random, innocent civilians, and agents of the American government; are supported and funded by the Left and the mainstream propaganda organs; and have a conduit to the world via a nearby sympathetic nation that lies beyond the international border.

It is not far-fetched to imagine a Hamas-style invasion of American neighborhoods, and this time around, not just looting of businesses and blocking of highways—disruptive and intolerable as this is—but rather wholesale slaughter of anyone caught in the human wave. It is also not a stretch to imagine drones and light missiles being launched from within the La Raza enclave, or from just across the border in Mexico. The same could easily happen in Europe, where autonomous zones for the savages are even more deeply entrenched.

When the escalation arrives, will we negotiate with the terrorists, try to make deals, perhaps formalize some aspect of autonomy, desperately hoping, like the Israelis, to buy a few years of peace and quiet?

However the Iran situation plays out, when U.S. involvement winds down, Mr. Trump needs to reconvene his National Security Council in the “situation room,” but this time to supervise a military campaign to clean out southern California. And I don’t mean deployment of the National Guard to protect federal property; I’m talking air strikes and all the rest—a war, a real war, to expel the invaders.

​Lord, give our leaders strength. When you cede territory to implacable enemies who seek your destruction, the results are predictable. As in Israel, so it is in Europe and America. It can happen here.