Two years ago today, we were shocked and horrified by events that unfolded in Israel. On Oct 7th, 2023, as we all remember with horrible clarity, Hamas invaded southern Israel and committed the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
I will not go into the details of what crimes were committed that day. I will not re-live, or ask you to re-live, that day in any detail at all. For anyone with any sense of human decency, those events are burned permanently into our psyches. We need not revisit them. But what we should do, on this of all days, is recognize that there is evil in the world.
Yes, Hamas is evil. Their ideological brethren are likewise evil. They are not freedom fighters. They are butchers. They are terrorists. They are evil. And in Europe and the United States, their evil is being celebrated. The Jerusalem Post, on Tuesday, named some of the places where pro-Hamas protests and rallies are taking place, and some of them may be surprising.
Anti-Israel activists held protests on Tuesday in many cities on the second anniversary of Hamas's October 7 massacre, despite denunciations by politicians who said such marches risked glorifying violence.
Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people and took 251 more hostage in the attack on October 7, 2023.
Anti-Israel rallies were held on Tuesday in Sydney and in European cities including London, Paris, Geneva, Athens, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, and Stockholm.
I've maintained for some time now that much of Europe is lost. Much of that continent, once the wellspring of Western civilization, will in another two or three generations be a Muslim caliphate. And plenty of young, foolish ethnic European youth, useful idiots to the nth degree, are joining these hideous celebrations of mass murder - of evil.
Organizers of anti-Israel protests over the past two years have said they were intended to spotlight the alleged humanitarian crisis in Gaza and advocate for Palestinian statehood.
Politicians in several countries said scheduling such protests on the anniversary of the Hamas attacks, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, could be seen as an endorsement of militant violence.
And note that last sentence - "could be seen" as an endorsement of militant violence. Forget the pusillanimous wiggle words, you spineless jackwagons. These protests are an endorsement of militant violence. In the United Kingdom, the once and former Great Britain, the home of King Arthur, Shakespeare, Wellington, and Churchill, the people who endorse this particular brand of evil are brazenly vandalizing memorials to the victims of Hamas.
Nadia Yahlom, who lives in north London, used scissors to brazenly snip the memorial bands tied to railings by the Jewish community to honour of the 251 people taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7th 2023.
Ms Yahlom declared the tributes – which were put up on the eve of the second anniversary of the attacks – were “condoning genocide”.
The yellow ribbon is the symbol of the ‘Bring Them Home’ campaign for those who have been held captive by Hamas terrorists and kept against their will in Gaza.
It's tempting to dismiss Nadia Yahlom's comment about "genocide" as stupidity, but evil is also a factor. The simple fact is that there is no genocide in Gaza, nor is Israel engaging in genocide anywhere. The Israel Defense Forces have gone to greater lengths to avoid non-combatant casualties than any military in human history. Yahlom and other, similar useful idiots know this. There's no possible way they don't know it. But they lie, because that's another thing that evil people do.
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What's really baffling is the weird collaboration with the Western left and the Hamas-supporting goblins. You will have seen the signs, the flags, the banners: "Queers for Palestine," and so forth. These people take "useful idiot" to an entirely new level, being that in Gaza, any such people would be murdered without any hesitation. Because that's also another thing that evil people do.
And in Gaza, this is a day for celebration for Hamas, a day to celebrate their evil.
Hamas terrorists touted the Oct. 7, 2023, attack as a “glorious day of success,” taunting Israel on Tuesday as thousands in the Jewish state mourn the second anniversary of the massacre.
The terror group hailed the unprecedented assault that killed more than 1,200 people as a “meaningful turning point” in the region, all while condemning the war it triggered in Gaza, The Times of Israel reported.
Now, Hamas is fond of piously intoning their desire for a cease-fire, because they can't win against Israel in a direct fight, and they know it. Of course, they had a cease-fire, which lasted until October 6th, 2023, when they launched their attack. There is now talk of another cease-fire, with the release of hostages, but we should not harbor any illusions about this. Hamas will, along with its ideological fellows, always use such breaks as time to recruit, retrain, and re-arm. They will lie and say they want peace. They will lie and say they will give up terror. They will lie and say that they will renounce evil. They will lie, because that's what evil people do.
So, today, yes, we should remember what happened two years ago. But we should also remember that there is only one way to deal with evil: To defeat it, utterly, irreversibly, totally.
It's as I have been saying and writing for the last two years: There will be no peace in Gaza until Hamas and its evil is no longer a factor.
