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Normal people are cheering the prospect of peace in Gaza. Some might
even raise a glass to Donald Trump for his valiant efforts to end this horrible war Hamas started. But there are others who will be feeling
forlorn. The anti-Israel mob, to be specific. WonrCOt you spare a thought
for this tragic community that built its entire personality around
hating Israel rCo what are they going to do now?

There is an eerie silence in anti-Israel circles this morning. The
people who spent the past two years hollering rCyCeasefire now!rCO seem strangely downbeat about the prospect of a ceasefire. No doubt thatrCOs
partly because they would rather eat hot coal than credit Trump with a geopolitical win. But itrCOs also because they feel the rug of relevance
being pulled from under their feet. The brutal truth: peace will rob
them of purpose.

ItrCOs been clear for some time now that the fashionable animus for Israel
is more than a political position rCo itrCOs a religious crusade. These
people see Israel not only as a nation fighting a war they donrCOt like,
but as a demonic entity, uniquely barbarous, the poison in the well of humanity. Israel has become a Satan substitute for a godless activist
class, the devil against which they measure their own decency. If this
war ends, so might their false religion.

They wear the holy garments of Israelophobia so that others will know
the depth of their devotion to the cause: the keffiyeh around the necks,
the Palestine flag draped like a pashmina over their shoulders. They
repeat IsraelophobiarCOs mantras, with little thought but great bombast. Witness how rCyFrom the river to the searCO usurped rCyTrans women are womenrCO
as the mating call of wokerCOs true believers.

They have their ritualistic ceremonies. A solemn march every weekend,
the purpose of which is less to shape events in the Middle East rCo as if
rCo than to make a spectacle of their own ethical rectitude. There is a millenarian feel to these depressing weekly trudges. At some theyrCOve
even held up baby dolls wrapped in bloodstained shrouds to let the world
know Israel is a baby-killing machine. ItrCOs a grimly medieval ceremony masquerading as political activism.

Perhaps the most dangerous thing for the genuflectors to Israelophobia
is that TrumprCOs peace deal shatters the founding lie of their fake faith
rCo namely that Israel is hell-bent on genociding the Palestinian people.
In truth, Israel has signed up for a deal that envisions a ceasefire
soon and which expressly says that not one Palestinian will be forcibly expelled from Gaza. And so their church crumbles under the weight of its
own calumnies.

If the deal works, if Trump and Israel bring peace and banish the
anti-Semites of Hamas from public life in Gaza, what will these people
do? How will they get their moral kicks? By what means will they
advertise to the world their implacable virtue? What will occupy their
every waking thought and inform their every political utterance if not
that dastardly Jewish State and its rCygenociderCO?

Think of poor Sally Rooney rCo will she now have to pontificate on some
other global calamity? Sudan, perhaps? Or, indeed, the Irish government,
which is maniacally obsessed with Israel rCo will it now have to worry its empty head about more trifling matters, like IrelandrCOs housing crisis
and migrant crisis? And the keffiyeh classes, those turbo-smug
appropriators of Arab headgear who you see in every coffee shop and art gallery rCo which garment will they don now to let onlookers know how
amazing they are?

And poor Greta! SherCOll have to go back to talking about climate change, wonrCOt she? Having failed to rCySave GazarCO, sherCOll have to content herself
with that oh-so-Nineties mission of saving the planet. Boring! One
thinks, too, of the YouTubers who have monetised their hatred for
Israel, spending every hour of every day slamming the Jewish State for
clicks and bucks. Blessed be the peacemakers, sure, but wonrCOt someone
think of the videomakers?

I, personally, am looking forward to the looming crisis of meaning among
a left that foolishly and feverishly devoted itself to hating Israel. In
the absence of this infernal war, these people will be forced to peer
into the cavernous depths of their own souls. They will have to shake themselves back to reality, leave behind their half-formed faith, and re-engage with the world anew. It will be tough, but it will be good for
them. And for the rest of us too, who might finally be spared their anti-Israel caterwauling.

Of course, thererCOs another possibility rCo that they will double down.
That they will carry on traipsing against Israel, zombie-style, even
when peace descends. Indeed, Your Party, the Zarah Sultana/ Jeremy
Corbyn freakshow, is advertising a march in London this weekend. rCyWe
march onrCO, the flyer says, rCyuntil apartheid fallsrCO. For two years, they screamed rCyCeasefire now!rCO rCo so why are they still marching? IrCOm tempted
to go and laugh from the sidelines. WhorCOs with me?


Brendan OrCONeill
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