An Israeli man carrying a prayer scarf prays subsequent to homes destroyed by Hamas militants in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from the close by Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, after they killed and captured many Israelis. Two weeks after Hamas militants gunned down 10 % of their neighborhood, torturing scores of individuals and kidnapping many again to Gaza, the Israeli authorities has relocated half the kibbutz to the upscale David Resort, a hotel-turned-refugee camp. (AP Picture/Ariel Schalit, File)
The thinker George Santayana famously mentioned, “Those that put out of your mind the previous are condemned to repeat it.” That condemnation may also be mentioned for many who knowingly ignore the previous as nicely.
Within the wake of the atrocious Oct. 7 terrorist assaults by Hamas upon Israel, New York and plenty of different components of the world have experienced numerous protests either for Israel or for Palestinians. At too lots of the pro-Palestinian marches, demonstrators have condoned, or outright celebrated, Hamas’ murderous actions as in the event that they had been combating for freedom towards an oppressive regime.
How can anybody confuse Hamas with a bunch of freedom fighters? How can anybody be so ignorant and hateful as to recommend that the one path towards a free state for Palestinians is thru the homicide of Jewish folks?
Nothing the Israeli authorities has performed justifies the vulgar antisemitism and acts of homicide perpetrated upon Jewish folks all over the place — each inside and out of doors Israel.
True freedom fighters and champions of Palestine would work to safe regular relations with Israel by means of nonviolent means, not embracing extremism and terrorism. However Hamas isn’t a band of freedom fighters in any respect.
It has been compared by President Joe Biden and others to ISIS, and rightly so. Like ISIS, it seeks to exterminate the state of Israel and the Jewish folks in pursuit of fundamentalist theocratic conquest.
Hamas cares not about Palestinians, however of itself — its fighters disguise in faculties and hospitals whereas utilizing folks as human shields in an effort to dupe the world into making Israel an aggressor state.
And if Hamas succeeds in its marketing campaign, Israel is doomed, and other people of the Jewish religion shall be in peril all over the place.
Allow us to not overlook the explanation why Israel was created in the first place. The state was established in 1948 as a house for Jewish folks around the globe three years after the top of the Holocaust, by which six million Jews round Europe had been exterminated by the Nazis.
From the second of their independence declaration, Israel has been subjected to common struggle for survival initiated by their Center East neighbors. With the assist of the U.S. and others, Israel has prevailed every time, and thru the a long time, has made peace with lots of their former foes — solely to be recurrently undermined by extremists looking for their elimination.
We should see the risk which Hamas represents to Israel and universally denounce it. And we should perceive that any path to peace within the Center East begins and ends with the preservation of Israel, and the safety of their folks.
For if Israel falls, we’re condemned to ultimately repeat the horrors of our previous.
