There is a tendency to forget that two historical events took place in early September 2001. There is no need to mention what happened on the 11th of the month.
The second event was the UN Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, which ended four days earlier.
20 years away, and even more so in the face of the fateful defeat of the Americans in their failed withdrawal operation from Afghanistan, the insight emerges that the conference, no less than the 9/11 attacks, changed the direction of history.
Its influences led to the dangerous place where the free world stood against the forces of jihadist Islam, against China, and above all - the power struggle against the West.
President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that in order to justify the decision to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan in the way it is done, it is imperative to end the "Eternal Wars." But it turns out that Biden and his men are not opposed to any "eternal war." They simply were not prepared to continue fighting against jihadist Islam. They did not want this specific war - against the enemy that attacked America this week 20 years ago. But they are actually ready for another war. And in their passion to invest all their efforts in the other war, Biden and his men are willing to ignore or perhaps come to terms with two simple facts.
First, the only way to end a war you have not won is to lose it.
Some compare the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan to the fall of the Byzantine Empire's capital Constantinople by the Ottoman army in 1453. The Taliban flag outside what was until last month the US embassy, and talk of the possibility of the Chinese taking over the airport in Gram, are signs that U.S. enemies On top.
That the free world was defeated.
Kosher anti-Semitism
The "eternal war" that the administration is determined to wage aggressively until the submission of the enemy is the civil war in the United States, against their political rivals, the "racists." And when American society realized that racism was contrary to the fundamental values of freedom and equality on which the United States was founded.
The roots of this strange war were sown in Durban 20 years ago. We remember the Durban Conference mainly because of its antisemitic agenda. In fact, in Durban, the plan was formulated to turn anti-Zionism into "kosher" anti-Semitism, and to use it to abolish the right to exist of the Jewish state. But the training of anti-Semitism was not only intended to harm Jews. For many players on the international left, training the trend of abolishing Israel's moral and legal right to exist has been and still is a means of advancing their primary goal - eliminating the moral status of the United States as the leader of the free world, and denying it the right to fight for its own interests.
As the author Lee Smith recently explained in the online journal Tablet, the purpose of portraying the Palestinians as victims and the Jews as war criminals, even though the opposite was true, was to break the sense of moral justice of the United States and the West in general. Smith, "It was necessary to harm those whom the people of the West swore would never be abandoned again, whose culture and religion helped to give birth to the world of concepts and the spiritual world of the West - that is, the Jews."
In other words, the de-legitimization of Israel, and the legitimacy of Palestinian terrorists, were a means of breaking the Americans' belief in the justice of their way.
Simultaneously with the overall antisemitic attack in Durban, an in-depth system against the U.S. was also conducted directly. The premise of the campaign was that the U.S. was born in the sin of racism with slavery, and that it was irreparable;
That racism is the true essence of the United States. The Civil War, in which half a million Americans were killed in an effort to free black slaves, as if it had changed nothing. Neither has the civil rights movement.
The preachers returned at the front door
It was not the African or Russian governments that led the anti-American campaign in Durban, but American citizens. Alongside a delegation of hundreds of radical blacks led by Rev. Jesse Jackson, many more activists from far-left organizations showed up. They attacked the United States as the most oppressive country on earth, whose victims are the oppressed of the world: blacks, all minorities (except Jews), women, homosexuals, transgender people and whoever else. "And in general on the law enforcement system, and demanded trillions of dollars in compensation for slavery, for black Americans born a century after the liberation of slaves.
When the Bush administration abandoned the Durban conference during it, its people dismissed the importance of the events, as activists at the conference were sleepwalking fringe people. They looked like that especially four days later. But immediately after the September 11 attacks, the effect of the "sleepwalkers" was significant, and in a short time, also decisive.
The Americans were lost in both Iraq and Afghanistan following the relentless attacks of the American left in the media, academia, Congress and more, which delegitimized all the military moves taken by the Bush administration against Islamic terrorism. The administration's decision to turn these wars against terrorism into systems for democracy stemmed in part from distress. Bush and his men sought to shake off the relentless attacks by turning wars into a way to keep the United States - in fact altruistic.
Those who preached against their country in Durban in 2001 came to power in 2008 with the election of Jackson's protégé, Barack Obama.
Today, those same people and their successors control the Democratic Party, and by the way Biden, which they supported in the presidential race.
By law, the Americans were supposed to respond to September 11 in a bitter war against the forces of jihadist Islam.
But because of the campaign launched in Durban, at the end of two decades the Taliban defeated America, led by a government that does not believe in the US constitutional and historical infrastructure.
This is not the end of the story.
The disgust felt by a large majority of the American public - including Democrats - at the failed conduct of Biden and his people is a source of hope that the sleepwalking minority will return to its marginal place, and that America will return to itself.
To understand this, one needs to focus on the Durban Conference rather than the Twin Towers.