This is a most critical time for the nation of Israel. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, started her second Mideast tour in four months this past weekend, trying to restart the stalled peace talks and push Israel into making good on a promise to open border crossings with Gaza. On her three-day visit, Ashton planned to meet separately with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority and also with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who is now the international community's envoy to the Middle East.

"The European Union has been calling for an urgent and fundamental change of policy regarding the closure of Gaza," Ashton said on the eve of her visit. One of the main focuses of her trip is the attempt to force Israel to relax the restrictions on what is allowed into and out of Gaza. This poses a great risk to Israel, because Iran has been using every means available to smuggle more powerful weapons to the Hamas terrorists. If the border crossings are opened missiles, rockets and guns will flood into Gaza.

The irony of the situation is that world continues putting all of its pressure on Israel to make peace. But on Ashton's last visit in March of this year, a Kassam rocket was fired from Gaza that killed a Thai worker in Netiv Ha'asara in Israel. Clearly expecting the terrorists to make peace is a fool's errand because the only peace they want is the peace of the grave when every Jew is dead. Yet the world community continues to make demands on Israel to bring peace.

We cannot turn our backs on Israel at this crisis moment. The threat it faces from Iran's attempts to provide more powerful weapons to Hamas and other terrorist groups is literally a matter of life and death for tens of thousands…and if America deserts Israel, the consequences to the world will be dire indeed.

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Dr. Michael D. Evans is the #1 New York Times bestselling author, and author of Jimmy Carter: The Liberal Left and World Chaos and Atomic Iran.