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The relationship of the West with Judaism is long and tortuous. On the one hand, to quote Geert Wilders, the West's cultural foundations are Jerusalem, Athens and Rome. Jerusalem gave the West God Morality and the Nation State, Athens gave logic and science, and Rome gave it governance and Christianity. Take these foundations away and what you have is rootlessness, fecklessness, and eventually suicide.

The anti-theses to these foundations is Jew-hatred. On the one hand Jesus was Jewish and his teachings based on his Jewish heritage, leading to Jew appreciation. On the other hand Jews rejected Jesus and his teachings, refused to assimilate and deny their own primacy in the affairs of God, and yearned to return to their land, good reasons for Jew hatred. Under Christian rule Jews many times prospered, many times were murdered, were sometimes privileged, and sometimes shunned. There is no question that the Jewish movement for national and territorial self- determination was  seriously supported by large swaths of Christian Western society, culminating in the Balfour declaration and the San Remo treaty which placed Jewish aspirations in the proper context of nation-state building and execution. Forty years after the first Zionist Conference of 1897 the Lord Peel, who was commissioned to advise the British Colonial government about the strife in the British Mandate concluded that the Jewish National home is already in place. He further concluded that it does not dovetail with British Interests and therefore must be abrogated. Hence the White Paper which condemned six million Jews to death for want of a home to shield them from Nazi genocide.

The means chosen by British Jew-hating government was the Open Borders policy. The sea was closed, but the land borders with neighboring Muslim-majority territories were wide open, with the British trucking in Muslims as  economic migrants  ad libitum. Thus the territory which held less than half a million on both sides of the Jordan before 1917 swelled enormously, with the onus of paying taxes placed on the Jews only.

The British left the Mandate with the firm belief that combined Arab power, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the Arab legion, multiple volunteers and militants swarming in, under the flag of Jihad raised by the Arab League, would crush the Jews and leave them whimpering for help to escape. It was not to be. In fact it was the Arabs who were made refugees, and an exchange of population occurred. Arabs out of Israel, Jews hounded out of Muslim-majority countries and re-settled in Israel.

But the open-border demand remained. Not only remained but intensified. Instead of insisting Muslim refugees be assimilated into Muslim states as the Jews were assimilated into theirs, the West set up a special organization charged with keeping, augmenting and perpetuating the crisis so as to eliminate the Jewish State under the onrush of belligerent invaders. There is no other way to explain UNWRA as separate entity from UNCHR, the UN body charged with resettlement of all non-Arab refugees but as an antidote to the Jewish State.

And further intensified when Israel, threatened again with Jihad and Genocide won the 1967 war, ending up with many of those foreign invaders under its rule. Not only was Israel besieged with demands to cede territory, but the Western support for organizations which channeled resources to terrorist organization increased further.

In keeping with the demand that Israel, as a Western democracy should end its discriminatory policy of limiting immigration to Jews only, the West, and especially Europe in the zenith of prosperity, opened its borders to Muslim immigration. And they came. The Turks, the Moroccans, the Syrians, the Libyans, the Pakistanis and Bangla-deshis, hesitantly and then more confidently, setting up their own communities, then enclaves, then Dar-Al-Islams, then Special Zones, then no-go zones where non-Muslims are excluded. As Muslim populations grew, Islamic practices of driving others away emerged, from concessions to capitulations to harassment, all the way to outright terror, exactly the kind that the British had imported into the Jewish National Home.

The war on the Jewish State did not wane. In fact, it intensifies at the same rate as the enormous monetary investment into proxies who prosecute the war of Jew-hatred in Israel. 177 million shekels that we know of, all from Western nations such as Britain Norway, Sweden Germany, Holland, the United States, over two years, 2012-14  went to 33 non-governmental organizations which are governmental proxies. The main demand of these organizations is that Israel arrest  the Judaisation of Judea and allow millions of so-called refugees to invade.  Incessant demands that Israel hand over control of the Jordan Valley so as to move hundreds of thousands of Syrian displaced, now dubbed Palestinians, into the Jewish patrimony. Many Billions in dollars and Euros from donor nations to the Palestinian authority whose sole function is to pay terrorists, before and after the act. All to force Israel to open its borders to unlimited Arab immigration so as to subdue the Jewish National Home.

However, this insistence on the holy concept of open borders is  beginning to back-fire, in a big way. Europe and the West are now inundated with Muslim immigrants who realized that the open-borders policy is an open door to invasion. Once in the West, especially Europe which shares the Mediterranean, there is no opposing force that will negate the "rights" assumed by the immigrants. Europe has detached its cultural moorings, has no obligations to its heritage religion culture and territory, and is unable to muster the moral strength to put a stop to it.

Further, should Europe and the West put a stop to the invasion, or start deportations, who will stop the Jewish State from doing the same? The moral equivalence by which Westerners cannot lay exclusive claim to their own territory and citizenship will be broken. If Paris is for the French, what will stop the Jews from acting as if Judea is for the Jews? Oh what horrible conundrum!!!

The Gazans are quick to realize the new development. Since they have no love for Hamas, or for Gaza, or for so called Palestine, having heard of the generous welfare Europe provides its invaders, they are off, on the refugee boats departing Egypt and Libya to the Promised Land. The land where they can both drink and party and taharoosh AND kill the infidel with almost impunity, AND get paid the Jyzia they have been collecting as perpetual refugees in search of a Jew to kill. Further, Western Jews are even a softer target than those tough Jewish cookies in Israel, who seem impossible to dislodge despite a century of unrelenting terror.  So much easier it is to dislodge the Mushy Belgique from entire Bruxelles neighborhoods such as Molenbeek. . So much easier to take over London, where the mayor is either a Dhimmi or a full fledged terror sympathizer. And the Jews? Ah, the easiest to intimidate. Will they fly? No matter, we shall get them in the end, in Highgate if not in Tel Aviv.

There is complete conformity between Westerners who reject the right of invasion, and the Westerners who reject the so-called right of return. The afore-mentioned Geert Wilders, whose party is the second largest in Holland, has made the parallel between Jewish rights to exclusivity in Israel to Dutch rights to exclusivity in Holland. Czech parliament has rejected the EU demand of Muslim invader  distribution, and recognized Jerusalem as the Jewish capital. The Polish government tells Western Europe they are suicidal, and holds joint sessions with the Israeli government in Jerusalem. These countries enjoy the lowest levels of terror and crime in modern Europe, while Paris London and Manchester are terrorized. Many predict the final demise of borderless, feckless, heritage-denying Europe, in the foreseeable future while exclusivist Israel survives and prospers.

The die is not cast yet. The West must realign with the Jews in order to survive.  

When the West realizes its anti-Jewish sentiment and policies and promotion of the Muslim right to invade are the foreground to its own demise it may reverse course. Or it might not. Lemmings generally do not turn back the headlong rush into the abyss. Israel should bide its time, keep welcoming Jews home, keeping its guard up and the finger on the trigger, and wait for the outcome of the Hijra. Should the West succumb, there is no reason to follow. If the West fights back and mass deportations ensue, then it behooves Israel to do the same, and deport the invaders back where the Turks and British brought them.

It seems Bibi is quite good in biding his time, as should be the son of a historian of Jewish catastrophes. His detractors have no answers for the Jews yearning for peace but wary of Dhimmitude, so likely enough he will stay with us for a long long while.

Yuval Brandstetter MD Lehavim