Israel and the West: A Common Front
Rejecting the Palestinian Struggle and Embracing Israel's Ethnocultural Resilience
I. Western Civilization as an Ethnocultural Bloc
Western civilization is more than a set of political ideals. The West is a transnational ethnocultural bloc. From the Greco-Roman and Christian heritage of Europe to its offspring in the Americas, the West is a civilizational family bound by shared heritage, culture, and blood.
To be Western is to belong to that family by peoplehood, by history, and by the lived continuity of civilization itself.
Israel, though geographically placed on the eastern Mediterranean, is unmistakably part of this Western family. The founders of modern Israel were largely of European origin, carrying the ethos of the West with them as they established their new state. From its political institutions to its social norms, Israel reflects Western patterns demonstrably more than Middle Eastern ones.
It is a nation born from a nationalist vision akin to those that created the nations of Europe—guided by Western political thought and organized along Western lines of governance.
Geopolitically, Israel has consistently aligned itself with the Western bloc, standing with the United States and European powers in its alliances and outlook, seeing itself as an outpost of Western civilization by blood, culture, and destiny.
Israel’s people did not emerge from an alien civilization. The core population of Israel was drawn from European Jewry, from communities that had been part of Western society for centuries. They brought Western languages, education, and modes of thought to the land they reclaimed. Israel’s early leaders made clear that they saw a civilizational divide between themselves and the surrounding Orient. Israelis whose families hailed from other regions were quickly woven into a society built on these models.
Culturally and ideologically, this Western spirit lives in Israel’s civilizational DNA. Its legal codes, its universities, its arts and sciences all bear the unmistakable imprint of the West. Perhaps most importantly, Israel shares the West’s sense of historical mission. It sees itself as part of the same great storyline that runs through Athens and Rome, through London and Paris, and on to Washington and beyond—a storyline in Western civilizational struggle.
Importantly, Israel’s regional enemies see it as a foreign implant in the Middle East.
The Islamists who demonize Israel do so because they view it as Western civilization encroaching on Muslim lands. To much of the Arab world, Israel seemed like a European colonial project transplanted into the Middle East—present in the region, but never of it. Since Israel’s inception, the Islamic Arab world has been intent on obliterating it and establishing yet another Muslim nation-state.
All this underscores that Israel is fundamentally one of us—a Western nation by culture and alliance. Israel naturally stands with Europe and America, molded from the same clay. To call Israel Western is simply to acknowledge reality: it is part of our civilizational bloc.
II. Gaza and the Civilizational Divide
If Israel is part of the Western family, Gaza is totally foreign to it.
The Gaza Strip, controlled by the Hamas terror organization, is culturally and politically part of the Islamic Middle East. It has no historical, ethnic, or civilizational connection to the Western bloc—none whatsoever. The people in Gaza are Arab Palestinians, Arabic-speaking and overwhelmingly Muslim; their society is shaped by Islamic and Arab norms, not the shared theological fabric, post-Enlightenment heritage of the West.
Geopolitically, Gaza aligns with terroristic filth like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Islamist militant movement that explicitly rejects Western modernity and embraces jihadist ideology. Gaza is often described (accurately) as an impoverished, war-torn enclave—a third world slum run by Muslim fanatics.
To put it mildly, Hamas turned Gaza into a theocratic mini-regime of terror. In October 2023, a band of barbaric Hamas savages from Gaza stormed into Israel and butchered over 1,200 Israeli civilians, including women, children, and the elderly.
They reveled in medieval-style atrocities. That bloodbath—and the ensuing Israeli military response that reduced parts of Gaza to rubble—is not a conflict the West needs to agonize over as if it’s our moral responsibility. It was a clash between a Western nation (Israel) and a hostile third world terror statelet (Hamas’s Gaza).
Some on the right seem to have forgotten this civilizational reality. They act as though we in the West owe equal sympathy or allegiance to Gaza’s population. But why? The people of Gaza are not part of our civilizational community in any meaningful way. They do not share our cultural heritage or our values.
Gaza and its inhabitants have contributed nothing to the Western ethos; their fate is irrelevant to the survival of our people and nations.
As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned during Europe’s migrant crisis, mass influxes of Muslim peoples “represent a profoundly different culture” that can “undermine [Europe’s] Christian roots.” His point was that civilizational incompatibility is real. Likewise, the Palestinian society in Gaza represents a profoundly different culture with different loyalties. They are not us.
Therefore, the Palestinian struggle should be irrelevant to our strategic priorities. It’s tragic if innocents suffer in war, yes—but no more tragic (and frankly much less important to us) than countless other conflicts in the third world.
We did not create Gaza’s problems, and we do not benefit from investing any energy into protecting them. The enclave’s misery or prosperity has zero bearing on whether Western civilization thrives or perishes.
Yet amazingly, certain voices on the right have become obsessed with the Palestinian struggle, as if it should displace our own civilizational struggles at home. This is insane.
III. Misplaced Priorities and Existential Threats at Home
While some right-wing activists fixate on Gaza and the Palestinians, the West itself is being gutted from within.
Our nations face existential challenges: mass demographic change, cultural decay, and a crisis of morale. These are the battles that will decide the future of Western civilization—not a border skirmish in the Levant.
Western countries are undergoing an unprecedented population shift due to declining native birthrates and large-scale immigration from non-Western regions. Europe’s population is literally shrinking and aging, projected to decline throughout this century.
Meanwhile, the share of Europe that is of immigrant origin (particularly Muslim) is rapidly growing. Even on a “zero migration” scenario, the Muslim population in Europe would rise from ~5% today to 7.4% by 2050, simply because the native European population is collapsing. With likely continued immigration, Muslims could comprise 11–14% of Europe’s population by mid-century. In some countries the figures will be far higher (e.g., 30% in Sweden on current trends).
The United States faces its own demographic upheaval, with record levels of illegal immigration. FY2023 saw 2.45 million illegal alien encounters at the U.S. southern border, an all-time high.
Western nations are, in effect, being repopulated by others. If unchecked, this trend will erode the ethnic and cultural character of our societies—the very fabric of the West as a civilizational entity.
At the same time, cultural rot has infected the West. Traditional values and social cohesion have given way to decadence, self-loathing, and fragmentation.
This malignant cultural rot is evident in the spread of nihilistic ideologies, the repudiation of our own heritage, and the obsession with victimhood narratives that drain our unity and confidence. Many Westerners, especially among the young, have been taught to see their own civilization as a force for evil—a mentality of shame and defeat that our ancestors would barely recognize.
Terminal defeatism is consuming us: a sense that decline is inevitable, that defending our identity is pointless, that perhaps we even deserve to be replaced or ruled by others.
This blackpilled mindset is poisonous and represents as grave a threat to Western survival as any external enemy. A civilization that loses its will to live cannot be saved. It simply rolls over and dies.
These are the crises that demand the right’s full attention. Demographic replacement, cultural decay, and civilizational defeatism are the true existential threats to the West.
Yet what are some self-styled dissidents on the right preoccupied with? They’re pouring their heart and soul into Gaza—weeping over a populace that has no loyalty to us, and demonizing a Western nation (Israel) for annihilating Islamist terrorists on its border.
This is a grotesque inversion of priorities. Every moment and ounce of energy spent white-knighting for Palestine is energy not spent on combating our real problems. Even worse, this fixation actively undermines the civilizational project we claim to uphold.
IV. The Gaza Distraction and Its Subversive Effect
Those on the right obsessed with the Palestinian cause: why? Who cares?
A pack of Hamas gunmen from Gaza commits a massacre in Israel and promptly gets pummeled into the dust. Why should that elicit an ideological meltdown on our side? Yet it has.
In certain right-wing circles online, outrage over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has reached a fever pitch. These voices adopted the left’s framing wholesale: using words like “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions, elevating the Palestinian struggle to the center of moral concern.
Parts of the right have allowed their disdain for Jews to morph into knee-jerk anti-Israel sentiment, even if it means aligning with openly anti-Western and pro-jihadist narratives. This is incredibly troubling—and yes, subversive.
If this fixation on Gaza’s “struggle” spreads further on the right, it will siphon ideological energy away from far more important battles at home. It divides the right against itself and alienates natural allies.
It also plays directly into our adversaries’ hands. Nothing could please the global left and the Islamists more than to see right-wing Westerners turn against Israel—one of the West’s own—and embrace the narrative of Western evil in the Middle East.
It’s a psyop that writes itself: get Westerners so tied up defending some “oppressed” foreign population that they forget about the replacement of their own people happening in their cities; have them regurgitate the left’s “colonizer versus indigenous” talking points about Israel, instead of focusing on the invasion of millions of foreign migrants into the West right now.
Can any serious person not see how that helps our enemies and weakens us?
This newfound sympathy for Hamas-run Gaza is profoundly perplexing. The same people who call inner-city gang members “savages” suddenly find their hearts bleeding for an enclave effectively run by gangs of Islamist thugs.
The cognitive dissonance is astounding. They buy into exaggerated atrocity propaganda about Israel, yet ignore that Hamas uses the civilians of Gaza as cannon fodder and propaganda props.
They are, in effect, letting anti-Western terrorists hijack the right’s moral compass. It needs to stop. Gaza is not the hill any conservative or nationalist should die on.
V. Envy and Irony: Israel Embodies What the Right Wants
The strangest aspect of this intra-right debate is the irony. The dissident-right critics bashing Israel over Gaza romanticize ethnonationalism, traditionalism, and strength—yet Israel exemplifies those very qualities perhaps more than any other Western country. It’s as if their stance is driven by a misplaced envy or bitterness.
Israel is unapologetically ethnonationalist. It defines itself openly as the nation-state of the Jewish people. In 2018 it passed a Basic Law codifying that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”
Unlike many other Western regimes, Israel doesn’t pretend to be a “melting pot” of anyone and everyone. It prioritizes the continuity of its founding ethnicity and culture.
Israel practices exactly what Western identitarians preach: it extends a warm welcome to those of the blood (Jews of the diaspora) and sharply restricts entry of others. Its citizenship law is literally jus sanguinis (by bloodline). What other Western nation today is doing that?
Moreover, Israel fiercely protects its demographic majority. It has built walls and fences on multiple borders to keep out mass migration. (In fact, countries like Hungary and Bulgaria admired Israel’s border wall so much they asked Israel for advice on building their own.)
Israel does not apologize for deporting illegal infiltrators or for refusing to resettle “refugees” who could threaten its social fabric. Its leaders explicitly talk about the danger of being demographically overwhelmed—and they act to prevent it. As PM Orbán noted approvingly, Israel views an influx of people with a “different religion and profoundly different culture” as an existential issue, just as he views Europe’s migrant influx. For defending its identity so rigorously, Israel is maligned by the left—but this is precisely why the right should praise and emulate Israel, not condemn it.
Moreover, Israel’s military and security services operate with a strict clarity of purpose. When Hamas massacred Israelis, Israel responded with ruthless force, prioritizing the safety of its own people over the lives of enemy civilians—as any sane nation at war would.
The Israel Defense Forces don’t hesitate to kill terrorists or to flatten terrorist infrastructure, and Israeli leaders don’t lose sleep if the “international community” whines. This is the ethos that every Western nation’s military should have: we will do whatever it takes to defend our people. If the UN has a problem with it—who cares? Disregard the ICC and defend your bloodline. This is the only moral, sane position.
Additionally, Israel’s political class, for all its flaws and divisions, explicitly frames policy in terms of the Jewish people’s interests. There is no pretense of cosmopolitan neutrality. Even left-leaning Israeli parties do not question that Israel must remain a Jewish state—that premise is a given.
Could you imagine a U.S. president or EU leader openly saying “We will govern in the interests of our (White/European/Christian) majority population”? Of course not, but in Israel, it’s routine and expected that the government’s job is to secure the future of its core ethnic nation.
The Israeli right, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has also cultivated alliances with nationalist and conservative movements worldwide to push back against liberal universalism. Far from seeking globalist approval, they are forging an alternative model of illiberal or civilizational democracy that rejects the left’s multicultural dogmas. This is exactly the kind of civilizational confidence that Western right-wingers say they want for their own nations.
Israel is doing what many of us only talk about. It has what we in the West are longing for: a proud, unified national identity; a government unabashedly for its people; strong borders; a population unashamed of its heritage; and a military that doesn’t grovel.
Far from “undermining” the West, Israel is one of the last bastions within the West’s broader sphere where these principles still hold. It’s a showcase that our values of national survival and cultural continuity can be implemented in policy.
So why are some on the right so hostile to it? The answer, I suspect, is that it’s easier to tear down than to fix one’s own house. Coupled with a pathological hatred of Jews, this extends into obsessive, hate-filled attacks on Israel from any angle possible.
They resent Israel’s success where they have failed. They mask this envy with high-minded rhetoric about Palestine, but at root they are bitter that Israel has something they feel denied—a homogenous ethno-state, born of struggle, that doesn’t hate itself.
Instead of working to achieve something similar for their own nations, they’d rather revel in contrarian doom-posting and cheer on what they perceive as an “underdog” fighting the global order. Pathetic.
It’s performative, it’s fueled by internet contrarianism and often Jew hate conspiracy tropes, and it leads nowhere productive.
If these people were serious about saving Western civilization, they would hold up Israel as an inspiration and a model. Don’t we, too, want to fortify our borders, rekindle patriotic solidarity, and marginalize those hostile to our majority culture and people? I want America to be a state that explicitly serves our people’s interests, just as Israel does for the Jewish people.
These are the constructive questions—and embracing Israel (a rare ethnonationalist success story in the modern West) would help us find the answers.
Yet the “pro-Palestine” right would rather side with a band of Islamist scum and their endless grievance narrative than admit that Israel might have lessons for us. In doing so, they align with the very globalist leftists and Islamists they claim to oppose. It’s an astonishing self-own, and it’s mortifyingly pitiful.
VI. One Civilization, One Fight
Defending Israel is defending the West. There is no inherent contradiction between supporting Israel and advancing Western interests; on the contrary, the destinies of Israel and the broader West are intertwined in our civilizational struggle.
When Israel demolishes its jihadist enemies, Western civilization is stronger. When Israel’s enemies (who are also enemies of the West) are weakened, we in the West benefit. Jihadist terrorism and Islamist expansionism target all Western nations, not just Israel. Israel is simply on the front lines, absorbing blows from forces that ultimately hate Paris, Rome, London, and New York as much as they hate Tel Aviv.
A Hamas or Iran emboldened by the West’s abandonment of Israel would only turn its attention more aggressively to Europe and America. Conversely, a resurgent West that stands by Israel sends a message that our civilizational bloc protects its own.
More broadly, Israel’s vigor can galvanize the West. It shows that the spirit of a confident nation-state is not dead. I feel pride when I see any nation unapologetically defend itself in an age of timidity.
Israel reminds the world that Westerners too have tribal rights to exist and prevail. The sight of Israeli flags flying after a military victory, the unashamed patriotism of Israeli society under threat—these should inspire us, not invite contempt.
The West needs to become more like Israel—more cohesive, more assertive about its identity, more immune to guilt-manipulation. And crucially, we must recognize Israel as part of “us.”
It’s a waste of precious time and moral capital to join the left in tearing down one of our own outposts. We have nothing to gain—and much to lose—by letting anti-Israel sentiment fester on the right.
By all means, criticize specific policies; Israel is not above critique. But don’t frame Israel as some alien entity or antagonist to Western interests. It is simply false to cast support for Israel as antithetical to patriotism in Europe or America.
Patriotism is not isolationism, and recognizing civilizational kinship is not weakness. We can and should put our own nations first while also standing in solidarity with a kindred nation fighting the good fight. These goals are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they reinforce one another. A strong West will better support Israel, and a victorious Israel will boost Western morale.
The right’s “Gaza obsession” must end. Hamas’s Gaza offers nothing but moral decay. Every minute these people rage about Israel “genociding” a terror enclave, our own nations sink deeper into demographic and cultural crisis.
Why agonize over a third world slum ruled by jihadists when our civilization is burning? It’s insanity. It’s a diversion, perhaps even a deliberate one planted by those who wish to divide and neutralize the rising right. Don’t fall for it.
The Palestinian struggle is not our fight. Our fight is for the future of the West—in Paris, in Budapest, in Dallas, in Melbourne. Israel understands its fight; it is doing what it must do. Let them win, wish them well, and learn from their resolve.
Western civilization will stand or fall as one. We don’t have the luxury of infighting or indulging in anti-Western narratives under the guise of “dissent.”
Civilization is on the line, both in our homelands and on distant fronts where our allies face down the same enemies. The West should be a united front—an ethnocultural alliance of nations that have stand with each other.
Israel is part of that alliance, not an opponent. So yes, support Israel unapologetically in its war against Hamas. And when that war is over, apply that same unapologetic spirit to saving your own nation from the perils of multicultural nihilism and demographic suicide. Savage the enemy and refuse to roll over and die.
Reject the blackpilled defeatism that many are starting to peddle; it’s nothing but a recipe for doom. Instead, embrace a civilizational confidence that says: We have a right to survive and thrive. Our civilizational bloc has that right, and so do we.
Those who truly want the West to win will stand with Israel—and will strive to emulate its successes for the broader Western sphere. Those who instead spend their days undermining a fellow Western nation at war, while offering no solutions for our own crises, reveal themselves to be anything but victory-seekers. They have opted for bitterness over action, jealousy over unity. This attitude has no place in a movement that aims to revive a great civilization.
It is time to drop the Gaza obsession, cut out the subversive nonsense, and focus on the battles that matter.
Defend our civilization. Uplift your people. Crush your enemies. Israel understands this. It’s time the rest of the West—including all factions of the right—understood it too.