Larry Elder Explains "Free Palestine" and the End of Western Civilization | PragerU

The October 7th Attacks and Global Response

• Hamas terrorists committed brutal acts of murder, rape, torture, and hostage-taking in Israel on October 7, 2023, killing over 1,200 civilians.
• 🌍 In response, large crowds in Western cities and on college campuses gathered not to condemn the terrorists, but to endorse their actions.
• ⚠️ This event is presented as a potential pivot point for Western civilization, either its end or its salvation.

Israel as a Symbol of Western Values

• 💡 Israel is described as personifying the values of Western civilization, from the Ten Commandments to modern biotechnology.
• ❌ Israel's enemies, including Hamas and Iran, are characterized as brutal dictatorships that do not share these values and aim for the destruction of Israel and subjugation of non-Muslims.
• 📺 Hamas's willingness to broadcast their crimes, unlike the Nazis, is highlighted as a defining feature of their brutality.

Israel's Response and International Scrutiny

• 🇮🇱 Despite previous instances where Israel backed down under international pressure, this time it pushed past limits, demanding hostage release or facing destruction.
• ⚖️ The world's expectation that Israel should only defend itself "to a point" is likened to a surgeon being told to cut out only part of a cancer.
• ❓ The speaker questions why Israel, the nation savagely attacked, is portrayed as the villain, while the attackers are seen as heroes, arguing for a reversal of this moral calculus.

Motivations Behind Anti-Israel Sentiment

• ☪️ Islamists, including many in the Arab and Muslim world, are driven by a faith-based hatred of Jews and Israel.
• ✡️ Antisemites, humanity's "oldest hate club," are convinced Jews are to blame for calamities and naturally want Israel gone.
• 🚩 Hardened leftists, including journalists and academics, despise Western civilization and target Israel as its embodiment.
• 🎓 The overeducated, indoctrinated into a leftist narrative, view Israel as the oppressor and Palestinians as the oppressed, justifying violence as resistance.
• 🤷 The ignorant protest crowds who adopt causes without understanding, chanting slogans like "from the river to the sea" without knowing the geography.
• 🇺🇸 A faction on the right resents Israel, believing it drags the US into conflicts, indulging a fantasy that Israel controls the US.

The Common Goal: Israel's Destruction

• 🎯 All these groups share the common goal of wanting Israel to commit suicide by allowing itself to be destroyed.
• 🔪 By pushing Israel to self-destruct, these groups are ultimately cutting their own throats by undermining Western civilization.