The Common Denominator Threaded Through the Yom Kippur War, 9/11, October 7 & Zohran Mamdani — For Israel and the USA : Evil Never Dies!

 

There is a single thread — dark, defiant, and utterly familiar — that runs through the Yom Kippur War, through the falling towers of September 11th, through the blood-soaked soil of Israel on October 7th, and through the smooth-tongued, hate-fueled rhetoric of Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in New York City. That thread is the arrogance of evil and the blindness of appeasement. It is the recurring curse of a civilization that refuses to learn from its own wake-up calls.

Every generation of Jews — and Americans — seems to need a new reminder that evil doesn’t politely knock before it enters. It doesn’t negotiate. It doesn’t coexist. It waits until you’re praying, fasting, dreaming, and then it strikes — as it did on Yom Kippur 1973, when Egyptian and Syrian tanks rolled into Israel while her soldiers were wrapped in talleitem and eyes soaked with tears. The attack wasn’t only on a state; it was an assault on Jewish destiny itself, a declaration that the Jewish people’s right to exist could still be contested.

Then came September 11, 2001 — a day every American swore would change the world. But did it? We buried our dead, raised our flags, spoke about “never forgetting,” and then, like tired dreamers, drifted right back to sleep. Within two decades, American campuses, city councils, and even Congress would welcome the same anti-Western, anti-Israel ideology that fueled the hijackers. The same grievance-filled theology that celebrates martyrdom over mercy and blames the victim for being free.

And then came October 7, 2023 — a day when the world’s oldest hatred removed its mask again. Hamas didn’t invade for territory or negotiation leverage. They came for Jews — babies, grandmothers, students, festival-goers — because that’s what evil does when it sees softness, confusion, and the paralysis of moral relativism. The blood of 1,200 Jews cried out, and yet within days, the global chorus — from the UN to American universities — turned its wrath not on the murderers, but on the murdered.

That’s when the fourth link in this cursed chain emerged: Zohran Mamdani, the New York Assemblyman who wrapped anti-Semitism in the language of “justice.” He doesn’t wear a uniform or carry a gun. He doesn’t need to. His battlefield is social media, his weapon is rhetoric, and his target is truth itself. He calls Zionism a crime, brands Israel an “apartheid state,” and defends terrorists with the arrogance of someone certain that America has already forgotten 9/11.

Mamdani is not an anomaly. He is the inevitable product of moral confusion — of a culture that forgot how to distinguish between victim and aggressor, civilization and barbarism, faith and fanaticism. He is what happens when universities reward anti-Western activism, when politicians are afraid to be called “Islamophobic” for defending civilization, and when Jews themselves try to earn survival through silence.

But the thread that ties Yom Kippur 1973, 9/11, October 7, and Mamdani together is not just about hatred — it’s about warning. Each time evil rises, it first tests our courage to name it. And each time, too many among us fail the test. The Yom Kippur War taught us that Jewish complacency invites slaughter. 9/11 taught us that American tolerance without discernment becomes suicide. October 7 taught us that weakness invites annihilation. And Mamdani teaches us that our enemies no longer need rockets — our own moral confusion will do the job for them.

The message for both the Jewish people and the United States is identical: Evil never dies — it adapts. It changes its flag, its accent, its hashtags, but the ideology is the same. It hates freedom, it hates the covenant between God and man, and it despises a people and a nation that dare to live by conscience rather than chaos. 

We must name it. We must reject it — not with polite “statements” but with unapologetic conviction. We must teach our children that moral clarity is not extremism, and that silence is complicity. We must remember that in both Jerusalem and New York, the battle is not between right and left — it is between truth and its erasure.

History has already given us three wake-up calls. The fourth one — Zohran Mamdani’s normalization of anti-Semitism in the halls of American democracy — may be the most dangerous yet. Because when hatred puts on a suit and sits in office, the next Yom Kippur War, the next 9/11, the next October 7 — is already being planned.

  

 

REPUBLISHED: EVIL NEVER DIES: 

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