Benjamin Netanyahu's warning to Pedro Sánchez and the Belgian Prime Minister has been a new chapter in a series with many seasons. In fact, the resort to civilizational rhetoric to redefine the framework of interpretation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and reduce it to a problem of terrorism and frame it in an irregular world war in which the future of humanity would be decided is the oldest trick in the discursive repertoire of the Israeli prime minister, who in the late seventies began his cursus honorum officiating in the US as an expert on global security. In a 1986 book (Terrorism: how the west can win), Netanyahu, then ambassador to the UN, already pointed out that the fight against international terrorism was a battle of a wider war between the forces of civilization and the of barbarism Then, when the cold war had not yet ended, he identified the barbarians with an alliance between radical Islamism and totalitarian communism united by their hostility against the West, but he already presented the State of Israel as the wall protection of Western civilization. Once the USSR disappeared, this story, which, like its doctrine on how to militarily combat terror with preventive operations, had the support of the US neoconservative circle, served as a guideline in the strategy to impose a new world order after September 11, 2001.
In an intervention that was made nine days after these attacks before the commission on preparations for the "war on terror" of the American Congress, Netanyahu himself, then former prime minister, did not miss the opportunity to point out that Fukuyama's theses on the end of history (1989, 1992), so celebrated in previous years, were stupid, while Huntington had it right with his damned book on the clash of civilizations (1996). He also took the opportunity to say that "the survival of our civilization" was at stake and that all Western cities had become targets of those who hated "our values" and "our way of life". Exactly the same as he reminded Angela Merkel in Berlin in 2016 and these days he has repeated, with different tones and emphasizing one aspect or another depending on the considerations they made, to all the European leaders who have passed through Tel-Aviv . He wanted to tell Sánchez and Alexander de Croo that thousands of bombs could fall on Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels or Antwerp, and that if terror is not stopped in the Middle East, it will spread throughout Europe and threaten their societies, which are the next target of the enemies in this "war for civilization". Perhaps it is not surprising to note that this personalized version of the Netanyahu doctrine is presented, due to the propaganda possibilities it offers to the ultra-right, as an ideal complement to the theory of the great replacement of Renaud Camus.
