Writing in Jewish World Review, Melanie Phillips details the global nature of radical Islamism. In addition to the October 7 attacks, she lists crucifixions of Christians in Syria, beheadings in Nigeria and calls for the “total collapse of the…American empire” from within the U.S. as proof of the joint and accumulated efforts of Islamic extremists. “The West won’t accept that it’s facing an Islamic holy war,” Phillips writes. “So it is giving up without ever putting up a fight.”
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
