A dark melancholy sets in upon seeing the Gaza Strip on the front page of the newspapers again. Back when I was a kid, I would listen to the latest news about the eternal confrontation on the radio and not understand any of it. Somehow I thought that war was just the norm in some countries. Israel is back on the front page, and our memories of decades ago would have us thinking this is a new chapter of business-as-usual. It is not. The terrorist attack of Oct. 7 represents a change of cycle for the entire West. There is no turning back.

Everything we already knew was enough to gauge the level of the terrorists’ savagery. In fact, it was more than enough after seeing the cold-blooded murder of young girls, mass raping of festival goers on top of their friends’ corpses, or the hail of spit that Palestinians directed at the corpses of those girls as the terrorists paraded them in triumph through the streets of Gaza. It was enough to gauge a morally acceptable response.

But there was more. 

There was more, and there were doubts over shedding light on it. The atrocity was already shocking before further details emerged. But then i24NEWS reporter Nicole Zedeck revealed on Tuesday afternoon that, during a house-to-house hunt, 40 beheaded babies had been discovered. Thousands of people asked her for proof on social media. Zedeck interviewed an Israeli military officer who participated in the operation, and he confirmed the information. Still, in war, a journalist must always observe through a filter of doubt. But then I received information from a Spanish journalist confirming the complete state of shock into which several of his colleagues had been plunged after having no choice but to investigate new images of the massacre that had been leaked. This explains why Zedeck said that the military cried and consoled each other after the door-to-door search of the houses where those terrorist rats had executed entire families, torturing them, humiliating them, robbing them, and killing them in bed — or in their cribs, in the case of babies.

Before you read this article, some of these new images might already be circulating. No need for that either. I have had enough. The relevance of a war is not only determined by the magnitude of the attack, the aggressor’s strategy, or the collateral effects it may cause in other countries. The relevance of a war is also determined by the level of Satanism exhibited by the enemy, and those who perpetrated these horrendous acts, those who instigated and financed them, are the living image of evil in the world, evidence of the devil’s existence and of his insatiable thirst for innocent blood. This enemy, moreover, does not just want to annihilate Israel, which would already be reason enough for a war; this enemy wishes to overthrow the West and enslave us all under the Sharia, smothered by the crazed Islamic sects in which they militate, surrendering conscience, life, and will. They sacrifice their own children as human shields; how were they going to respect the babies of the enemy? And at the same time, what kind of war can you have with an enemy who respects not their own lives, nor that of their people, nor that of a baby? All you can do is crush them like cockroaches. 

As Israel prepares its offensive, I have one question: Whose side are the United States and Europe on? Tributes to terrorists have been held upon their streets without the authorities breaking them up or arresting those people who support the most vicious terrorists. In their media we find individuals calling for equidistant debates, as if what has happened could allow for equidistance. And most importantly: Why the hell are we funding this shit? I don’t know what is more outrageous, that Joe Biden decided to bow to Iran’s blackmail and pay millions in a prisoner exchange, or that the EU announced that it is suspending development aid funds to Palestine only for von der Leyen to backtrack cowardly two hours later.

The West is financing this madness. And the West is harboring the devil itself inside the ghettos of its big cities — especially in Europe, where the day before yesterday in French, German, English, and Danish cities there were, true to God, jihadist parties in Islamic neighborhoods to celebrate the barbaric attacks. 

The time has come for a change of cycle — the time to save Western civilization. Full resources, full ability, full intelligence, full unity, and full determination are needed. It is time to condemn and pursue Islamic terrorism for real, in Israel, in the United States, in France, or wherever, until it is defunded and extinguished, to at least give our future generations a chance to live in peace and freedom. 

Like Chesterton, we will not do it out of hatred for what is in front of us, but out of love for what is behind us.

Translated by Joel Dalmau.