A large part of the problem for the West in dealing with Islamic terrorism is the deep anti-Israeli animosity on the left. The left has built its attitudes to Islamic terrorism by defending Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in their attacks on Israel.

To admit that there is an incompatibility between the values of the West, however defined, and the values of radical Islam, is to admit that the Israelis have a valid point. The insanity of the left is that they would rather see the suicide of their own culture, see it submerged beneath the flood of Islamic radicals into our Western nations, than admit that the fight against sharia is legitimate, and that Israel, in standing up for our Judeo-Christian values, has been largely in the right.