When Europe says “you are part of us” – it is worth checking where the nearest exit to the airport is.
Preferably towards Ben-Gurion.
How a small Pacific island nation understood the Middle East better than Europe
“Most Muslims are peace-loving” is a sentence that is roughly equivalent to “most people love peace.” True. But when you bring in 2 billion people with a culture that sees democracy, equality, and freedom as “infidels,” then this peace is just a pause between attacks.
So is European culture terminally ill? Probably not.
But it certainly sometimes looks like a person who comes to the doctor with a long list of symptoms: identity confusion, political fatigue, and a little too much ideology on an empty stomach.
While the West is busy explaining why Israel is a “problem,” the small countries have already understood: Israel is not the problem, it is the reminder.
In the world of 2026, it’s not the one who is right who wins – it’s the one who acts while the rest are still writing a position paper.
Europe’s problem is not Sharia, the problem is that it is no longer sure what it wants to be – and when that happens, someone else fills the vacuum.
To sum it up simply: missiles are hardware, regimes are software
And in the Middle East, software tends to crash long before the hardware does.
There are moments in history when a huge organization suddenly discovers that it is still alive – but mainly by force of inertia. Such is the situation of NATO in the 21st century. The alliance that was founded to stop the Soviet Union has, over the years, become an organization that is trying mainly to stop its own embarrassment.
Purim 2026 is not just another holiday under fire. It is a stark reminder that even in an age of precision missiles and suicide drones, there is one thing that is very difficult to intercept – a national will to continue living.
And in the Middle East of 2026, it is a strategic weapon no less important than any air defense system.
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