The Hamas attacks are not simply about Israel. Just as the Jihad in Kashmir is not just about India. And 9/11 was not just about America. What we are experiencing is not a series of local events, responses to specific conflicts, but the continuation of an Islamic Jihad against civilization that’s been going on for over a thousand years.

Until we recognize that, we will be stuck having to justify our existence and constantly defend against Islamic claims that we are the oppressors and that the conflict is particular rather than general, while we are divided and conquered. Only when we see the bigger pattern, do we have any hope of winning.