Why was this terrorist attack different from all other terrorist attacks? Because in all other terrorist attacks there has been documentation of the victims after the fact. Pictures of bloody exploded buses, news segments of funeral processions, and after a day or two, a selfie video of the terrorist before setting out on his or her killing spree, praising Allah. These would be sent into the cosmic media circus and landing there, would be classified as being part of the endless “cycle of violence” of the Middle-East.
The Hamas terrorist attack of October 7 was unique in many ways, but none more than the fact that it was live-streamed by the perpetrators themselves, using their own cameras and more insidiously, using the smartphones of their victims so that the victims’ families could witness the atrocities live. Numerous Go-Pro videos were uploaded, and millions watched horrific acts of violence, including rape, gang-rape, and murder of civilians. There’s your free Palestine for you.
This self-documentation presented to the world the face of a Muslim Arab that was difficult to describe in the acceptable terms of wokeness. Was this a freedom fighter? Was this a resister to colonialism? Was this the cry of an oppressed refugee of the Nakba?
As the social media companies entered into overdrive to erase the terrible video clips, the anti-Semites of the world did as they do. They claimed that the atrocities did not happen, but if they did, then they were justified. They claimed that if children were raped before being slaughtered, they were not beheaded, and if they were beheaded, they were not burned alive, and if they were burned alive, well then, as Zionists they deserved no less.
Pure evil has presented itself for the world to see, in a provocative and unapologetic way, and Evil’s partners are proud and loud.
The prolonged nature of the battle in Gaza serves some purpose. First, and most importantly, the demise of the evil powers is steady and well-felt. The destruction of Hamas is seen to be done, by all with eyes to see. Second, the conflict helps to identify allies of the evil pact. They have crawled out into the light and exposed themselves with the slogan “Genocide.” This easily falsifiable charge is no less than a profession of faith in the religion of Jew-hatred.
The Good must prevail, and the Good will prevail. It is happening now in Gaza.
Hamas has made it undeniable. A Palestinian state is impossible. Not now, not ever. the refugees should have been resettled 75 years ago but for political reasons they were not. That alone was a war crime on the part of the UN.
Hamas made themselves into a wicked problem that had to be solved.