{"product_id":"holiday-from-history-the-west-s-delusion-of-peace-and-the-return-of-war","title":"Holiday From History: The West’s Delusion of Peace and the Return of War","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel and butchered more than a thousand Jews. They raped women, burned families alive, kidnapped children, and celebrated their “triumph” on social media. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe reaction across much of the West was worse than silence. Crowds in London and New York cheered for “resistance.” University presidents could not bring themselves to say that calling for Jewish genocide violated campus rules. The United Nations raced to draft resolutions condemning Israel for defending itself, while refusing even to name Hamas. The mask slipped. The liberal order we were told would protect us revealed its rot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book traces how we got here and what comes next. After the Cold War, intellectuals proclaimed the “end of history.” Politicians cut armies, sold peace as permanent, and imagined that treaties and trade would tame tyranny. Meanwhile, Russia rebuilt, China sharpened its knives, Iran armed its proxies, and Islamist networks dug in from Gaza to European capitals. The West convinced itself that memory was obsolete, that Auschwitz and the Gulag had no heirs. Then came Ukraine. Then came Hamas, again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHoliday From History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e refuses euphemism. It names things as they are. Terrorism is terrorism. Genocide is genocide. Appeasement is appeasement. The book combines political history, military analysis, and Jewish moral tradition to argue that peace is not automatic. It is earned and guarded through strength, vigilance, and moral clarity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou will walk through the myths that blinded us: Fukuyama’s “End of History,” the Oslo delusion, the fantasy that multiculturalism could erase tribal loyalties, the belief that international law restrained aggressors rather than defenders. You will see how mobs in Western cities turned the pogrom into street theater, how NGOs laundered Hamas propaganda into human rights reports, how Western governments pleaded for “restraint” from Israel while arming Ukraine to the teeth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is a summons—rather than a lament. It argues for a return to seriousness: armies that can fight, alliances that mean something, schools that teach why freedom matters, leaders who speak the truth even when it offends fashionable opinion. It insists that Israel is not a “complication” for the West but a frontline test of whether the West still believes in itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistory has returned. The holiday is over. The only question left is whether we have the courage to be guardians again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914235928767,"sku":"4faf95bd-9382-4d29-8ce2-44e0415b6f09","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/0c0cf8007898886d325e1cd1d3985929.jpg?v=1785056076","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/holiday-from-history-the-west-s-delusion-of-peace-and-the-return-of-war","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}