The Day of Infamy When Hamas Slaughtered and Abducted Hundreds of Jews

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas unleashed horrific attacks on a massive scale against Israeli civilians by land, sea, and air on October 7th. The terrorists launched their savage rampage on the Jewish Sabbath and holiday of Simchat Torah, committing numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity against defenseless Israeli civilians in what is being called Israel’s 9/11.

Israel has not faced a war of this magnitude since the Yom Kippur War

Israel has not faced a war of this magnitude since the Yom Kippur War that Egypt and Syria launched against Israel on October 6, 1973. Hamas’s invasion of Israel was too complex and multi-dimensional for it to have been able to carry out itself without the backing of the Iranian regime. Iran is the world's top state sponsor of terrorism that provides military, financial, logistics, and planning support to Hamas and other proxy terrorist groups.

Hamas fired several thousand rockets into Israel from Gaza in one day. The terrorists also broke through border fences between the Gaza Strip and Israel to carry out their barbaric ground attacks. The terrorists so far have murdered at least 700 Israelis and wounded many more. The terrorists have taken at least 100 hostages, including dozens of American citizens, and transported them to Gaza.

In scenes reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the terrorists shot civilians at point blank range and abducted Israeli women, children and the elderly from their homes and Israeli streets. The sub-human terrorists also paraded Israelis’ mutilated bodies in Gaza to cheering crowds of Palestinians.

“We are at war, not an operation, not rounds, but at war"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “We are at war, not an operation, not rounds, but at war.” He vowed that Hamas will pay an “unprecedented price,” adding, “We will defeat them to death and take revenge for this black day.”

Israel’s counteroffensive has already begun. Hopefully, this time the Israeli military will finally do whatever it takes to destroy Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic jihad once and for all and reject any calls for a ceasefire in the interim.

The United Nations Security Council was called into emergency session on Sunday, the day after Hamas’s invasion. Prior to the closed meeting, the Palestinian Authority’s representative to the UN placed all the blame on Israel, which he defamed as “colonialist” and “racist,” for the war that the Palestinian Authority’s archrival Hamas initiated.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan issued a statement before the Security Council meeting in which he said that “Israel is facing brutal terror attacks, the likes of which we have never seen before. This is our 9/11. The civilized world must stand with Israel and with our right to self defense.”

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Israel’s moral and legal right of self defense against the Palestinian terrorists’ ruthless killings

Sadly, however, too many leaders in a world filled with amoral cowards will not stand with Israel and support its sovereign right to defend its people. We have seen this movie too many times before.

Indeed, UN senior officials are already engaging in their usual exercise of moral equivalence. Once again, they refuse to acknowledge Israel’s moral and legal right of self defense against the Palestinian terrorists’ systematic invasion and ruthless killings and kidnapping of innocent Israeli civilians.

The spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a statement urging “maximum restraint.”

“I appeal to all sides to stop the fighting immediately and protect civilians everywhere and at all times,” said Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Calls to exercise “maximum restraint” and to “stop the fighting immediately” after Hamas’s massacre and abduction of hundreds of Jews insult the victims and their grieving families and friends. Hamas started this brutal war. Israel must finish it, using all military means to destroy the Palestinian terrorists’ military and intelligence infrastructure, their weapons production capacity and supply lines for weapons parts, and their leaders’ known hideouts (hopefully with the leaders inside).

Whatever collateral damage the Palestinian civilian population may suffer as a result is on the Palestinian terrorists’ hands, not Israel’s

Whatever collateral damage the Palestinian civilian population may suffer as a result is on the Palestinian terrorists’ hands, not Israel’s.

At subsequent UN meetings and press conferences, Palestinian terrorists and their enablers will no doubt claim, using doctored photos, that Israel’s forceful military response to the war that Hamas started is inflicting collective punishment on “innocent” Palestinians. Anti-Israel human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, representatives from Arab and other Muslim countries, and UN bureaucrats can be expected to amplify this propaganda as they have done so many times before.

This time Israel must not listen to world opinion when it is dealing with an existential threat to its very existence as a Jewish state. And by his actions as well as his rhetoric, President Biden must keep his word to stand by Israel’s right to defend itself for as long as it takes. President Biden must remain steadfast no matter what criticism he faces at home or abroad for doing the right thing for once.

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