While we celebrated the dawn of a new year, young Yazidi woman Fawiza Amin Sido celebrated the beginning of a new life. Fawiza, 21, was kidnapped from her home in Iraq by ISIS in 2014 when she was 11. She was "purchased" by a Gaza resident a few years ago and forced to marry him, subsequently imprisoned there as a slave to her Gazan master. She saw the light a few months ago when the terrorist holding her was killed by the IDF during the war in Gaza. She managed to escape by contacting a Canadian Jew dubbed the "Jewish Schindler," who liaised with the IDF. This young woman was returned to her mother's arms in Iraq.
The State of Israel and the IDF succeeded in rescuing a non-Israeli, non-Jewish young woman whom the free world had already given up on. The evil and darkness of fundamentalist Islam are universal, not just directed against Israel, but Israel is at the forefront of the fight against them, and the liberation of the young Yazidi woman is a symbol of this.
Israel is the front line of the West, democracy, and progress, against absolute darkness. Israel settled the score with Hezbollah terrorists, whose hands are stained not only with Jewish and Israeli blood but also with Lebanese, Syrian, French, and American blood. All suffered from Nasrallah's iron fist, but only Israel eliminated him, while facing American anger behind the scenes. Millions of dollars were offered by the US for the head of Ibrahim Aqil, another senior Hezbollah official, but only Israel acted. The baklava and candies distributed in the streets of Syria out of joy over the elimination of senior Hezbollah officials prove that Israel is the only one who dared to confront these monsters.
The same goes for the Houthis. Iran's proxy arm has been attacking and sinking merchant ships in the Red Sea area for a year. They don't just attack Israeli ships or those en route to Israel, but also British, Norwegian, American, and others. The US and Britain occasionally attack insignificant Houthi targets. The only country that dared to attack the port of Hodeidah and the Houthis' oil reserves was, of course, Israel.
The same applies to the Iranians. The Iranian people are ruled by an oppressive and cruel regime and cannot rise up against it, and no country in the world is confronting this evil government. Europe has long been addicted to Iran and flatters it, and even the Democrats' America willingly surrenders to the ayatollahs' rule by removing sanctions from the nuclear program and ignoring the Iranian stranglehold. Only Israel dares.
Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party in Canada, currently leading in polls ahead of elections to be held in a year, expressed himself this week in exactly this manner, "I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate to avoid being overthrown by its own people, to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow. And if Israel were to stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring nuclear weapons, it would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity."
We rightly criticize ourselves for our misconceptions. But for one moment, it's also permissible to pat this amazing country on the back. A country that fights not only for its own life but for an entire world of freedom.
