On Oct. 7 anniversary, standing with Israel means the free worlds salvation

There are rare moments when history illuminates the conflicts of our age and gives us a chance to choose good over evil.Oct.7, 2023, was this moment for our lifetimes.That day, one year ago, we saw the devil on earth.The Hamas terror group invaded Israel and carried out the deadliest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.With Iranian backing, they murdered, raped, wounded and tortured thousands of Israelis and foreign nationals, and dragged hundreds off to Gaza as hostages.Since then, Israel has been fighting for survival and for justice.There are still tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from their homes in our country’s north.Hamas is still holding 101 innocent Israelis, Americans and citizens of over 20 countries hostage in horrifying conditions.Even as we do everything to achieve peace on our borders and bring our people home, Iran and its proxies have turned the massacre of Oct.

7 into a year-long attempt to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.Yet developments over the past few weeks have made it irrevocably clear: The tide is shifting.If Oct.7 reminded us that we have no choice but to take genocidal antisemitism seriously, Israel’s categorical response has taught us something too.Betting against Israel is a losing wager.Indeed, Israel is on the front lines of the Western world’s self-defense against a tyrannical, illiberal, jihadist assault.As terrorist leaders fall like dominoes, Israel is teaching everyone who will listen: Those forces of evil must be taken down.

And they will be.In 1983, the Hezbollah terror group sent suicide bombers to murder 220 US Marines and 21 other American servicemembers in their barracks in Beirut.The attack, which also claimed the lives of 58 French paratroopers, was the deadliest on the Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima.In July, Hezbollah’s despotic leader Hassan Nasrallah ordered missile strikes on Israel and murdered 12 Druze children playing soccer in the village of Majdal Shams.Last month, thi...