By Ron Jager, Israel National News, September 16, 2026

Since the days of Napoleon’s landing upon the shores of Egypt at the very end of the 18th Century bringing with him the modern era to the Middle East, the Islamists of the region have been unable to free themselves from the shackles of inferiority and self-destructive primal rage that typifies the hatred of modern day Islamism against Western civilization. Islamism is anti-Semitic in promoting the view that all Jews are evil. Because Jews live in Israel, it is also anti-Israeli, and it is also anti-American due to its distorted view of the Jews’ role in the United States.

“Jews are evil, they run America, therefore America is evil” — this is the mantra of Islamist thinking. Over the past half century, as the Palestinian Arab organizations, and in recent years the Hamas Palestinian Arab terror organization have adopted an Islamist ideology based on an increasingly venomous anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish rhetoric.

Arab Palestinianism has evolved into the Muslim vanguard of Islamist ideology that has enlisted the Arab nations of the region into never ending cycles of wars with the State of Israel. Arab Palestinianism embodies the “right of return”, the idea that all the Palestinian Arabs who have fled or were expelled from Israel in the 1948 war and all of their descendants have an inherent right to return to Israel as full citizens, effectively ending the State of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish nation.