All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

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In the early morning hours of October 7, hundreds of Hamas terrorists entered sovereign Israeli territory, indiscriminately targeting innocent men, women and children for murder. Horrific videos posted by the Islamist terrorist group show their operatives barbarically attacking civilians whose only crime was being Jewish and living in Israel.

But to one commentator, the act was an opportunity to spread patent falsehoods and to paint the Hamas attack as merely the latest in a tit-for-tat fight between the terrorist group and Israel.

Ginella Massa, a former CBC journalist and news anchor of Canada Tonight until July 2023, when she became a journalism instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), posted on X (formerly Twitter) to her 31,500 followers on October 8, that it was “horrific to see hundreds of innocent civilians killed on both sides in this all out war,” but not before adding: “But let’s not call this unprovoked since it’s been 75 years of military occupation. Agree with the tactics or not, you can’t talk about this war without basic context.”

In a subsequent post, she added that “…the world should be horrified by what’s happening to Israelis today. But we should also be horrified by what’s BEEN happening to Palestinians for decades. Not to say one justifies the other, but at least understand how we got here.”

Firstly, there have not been hundreds of innocent civilians “killed on both sides” in the current war. While the overwhelming majority of Israeli casualties have been civilians, the Palestinian death toll of roughly 400 in Gaza, Israel claims, were Hamas operatives who were killed in Israeli air strikes. To surreptitiously claim that “both sides” have suffered hundreds of innocent civilian deaths is a blatant falsehood.

Secondly, there has not been “75 years of military occupation” of Gaza or elsewhere. Israel has not occupied Gaza in any way since 2005, when it removed all Israeli citizens, soldier and civilian alike, from the coastal enclave. By referring to “75 years,” Massa is referring to Israel’s independence in 1948, and referring to the Jewish State’s very existence as a “military occupation.” Not only is this demonstrably false, but worse yet, it delegitimizes Israel’s very existence.

Thirdly, and most scandalously, by falsely claiming that the unprecedented Hamas murderous assault on Israeli civilians was somehow provoked by Israel’s very existence is a statement of profound moral turpitude. There is no justification or provocation that can possibly justify such a heinous and inhuman attack, and the suggestion that Israel’s existence is enough to spur Hamas terrorists to massacre innocent civilians is repulsive for anyone.

While one may argue that Massa did not necessarily ‘justify’ Hamas’ actions, but merely seeking to “understand how we got here,” ultimately it represents a distinction without a difference. Hamas is a fanatical Islamist terrorist group whose raison d’être is the destruction of Israel. As such, there is no “understanding” to be had with the group for the purposes of trying to equivocate or downplay the callousness and unique brutality with which the group acts against Israeli civilians.

The journalism program at TMU is one of the highest regarded of its kind in Canada, and as a contract lecturerthere, Massa’s grotesque post on X raises serious concerns about the calibre of instruction that her students are receiving. Immediately prior to her departure from the CBC, Massa told The Toronto Star that she was leaving in order to pursue media consulting and public speaking engagements. Massa herself boasts at having “over 100,000 followers across all platforms” and of having “an influential social media presence.”

Students and prospective clients should take note of Massa’s post when considering taking her class or retaining her for media consulting services. TMU, for its part, must determine if Massa’s tweet stood in violation of its codes of conduct.

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HRW and Amnesty's disgusting press releases blame Israel and try to exonerate Hamas​

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been on a single-minded jihad against Israel for years. They have written long, detailed reports blaming Israeli Jews for the "war crimes" of living in houses in their ancestral homeland. Their obsessive hate has reached so far that they have written extensively against AirBnB for not discriminating against Jews renting out their houses.

But when it comes to thousands of Hamas terrorists invading Israel, murdering, kidnapping and raping hundreds of people, they aren't nearly as interested in details. There are no condemnations. And they blame Israel for defending itself more than they blame Hamas for their genocidal attacks.

Amnesty tweeted:

@Amnesty is deeply alarmed by the mounting civilian death tolls in Gaza, Israel and the occupied West Bank and urgently call on all parties to the conflict to abide by international law and make every effort to avoid further civilian bloodshed.

No condemnations of Hamas. Just "concern" about both sides.
And after hundreds of man-hours spent blaming Israel for every possible crime, real or imagined, that they can dream up, they cannot even write a single standalone tweet condemning the worst attack on Jewish civilians since the Holocaust.
Amnesty's statement continues on its website and is almost unbelievable, written on the same day as the mass murders:

Deliberately targeting civilians, carrying out disproportionate attacks, and indiscriminate attacks which kill or injure civilians are war crimes. Israel has a horrific track record of committing war crimes with impunity in previous wars on Gaza.Palestinian armed groups from Gaza, must refrain from targeting civilians and using indiscriminate weapons, as they have done in the past, and most intensively in this event, acts amounting to war crimes.

They accuse Israel of war crimes pre-emptively - but only urge Hamas not to target civilians, when that was the entire point of the attack!
If Amnesty is a human rights group, this one press release shows that they do not consider Israeli Jews to be humans who deserve rights. They are bending over backwards to assume Hamas innocence and Israeli guilt.
What a perverted, immoral organization.
Human Rights Watch is even worse. These are their (re)tweets from Saturday:

No mention of Hamas by name. Only a passive voice on how Israelis are being victimized but there is no condemnation. However, Bashi makes sure that even if the attacks aren't justified, they sort of are.
Then, to hammer home the point that Jews are responsible for their being slaughtered, she wrote this:

Yes, just in case HRW's followers might have had a slight bit of sympathy for Jews being abducted, raped and massacred, she takes pains to remind everyone that Israel is the evil party and, by implication, Hamas is the victim here.

This isn't human rights advocacy. This is antisemitism at its rawest and most disgusting.

HRW and Amnesty's disgusting press releases blame Israel and try to exonerate Hamas

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[ Fatah wants to kill all Arab Israelis. Imagine that ]

• Get ready to strike them and to burn them, slaughter them.
  Set out, all of you, with your weapons…. You are closer to kill them in Hebron, the occupied Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel), Nablus, Tulkarem, and our entire proud West Bank
  Slaughter them, by Allah, this is the final promise”
  
• “Ignite all points of friction in the West Bank, rain down bullets and explosives on their checkpoints, and kill the settlers in every alley”
• “Launch an extensive attack on all targets of the Zionist enemy”
  
• “Today is a tiding of days of victory, Allah willing – for this is Jihad, Jihad, victory or Martyrdom”
  
• Hamas terrorists are “Jihad fighters”

A Telegram channel associated with Fatah’s military wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, is calling on Palestinians to slaughter Jews who they term “apes and pigs.”

The first post published by the Fatah channel after Hamas launched its terror massacre on Israel on Saturday was a “call for general mobilization” and to strike the settlers and occupation soldiers with full force and with all means.” The post started with a quote from the Quran and ended stating the belief that the Palestinians will “triumph with Allah’s might”:

Posted text: “‘So fight them and Allah will punish them at your hands, put them to shame’ [Quran 9:14, Sahih International translation]’…
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar (i.e., “Allah is greatest”)!
This is a call for mobilization, a call for general mobilization(refers to the Hamas terror war; see note below -Ed.)!
All our lucky fighters in the West Bank must increase the level of full preparedness, unite in this true battle, and strike the settlers and occupation soldiers with full force and with all means.
This is the final promise (see note below -Ed.), O beloved ones. ‘They truly see this Day as impossible, but We see it as inevitable’ [Quran 70:6-7, Sahih International translation], and we are triumphing with Allah’s might.
Scents of Paradise have begun to blow.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – the occupied land of Palestine.”

[The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Palestine the Occupied Land, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]​

Many posts begin with the words “Allahu Akbar - “Allah is greatest” – although Fatah presents itself to the world as a non-religious movement. One such post called for “Jihad” – Islamic war -and invoked an antisemitic Quranic reference to Jews, calling to “strike the sons of apes of pigs, kill everyone who is a settler, slaughter everyone who is Israeli”:

Posted text: “Allahu Akbar (i.e., “Allah is greatest”), come to Jihad, come to Jihad (refers to Hamas terror war; see note below -Ed.).
To all our sons and brothers in the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces throughout the West Bank – today is your day.
Break into the settlements, strike the sons of apes of pigs (i.e., an antisemitic Quranic reference to Jews; see note below), kill everyone who is a settler, slaughter everyone who is Israeli, by Allah, they are the most cowardly among men.
Today is a tiding of days of victory, Allah willing – for this is Jihad, Jihad, victory or Martyrdom.”

[The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Palestine the Occupied Land,
Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]​

In several other posts Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, which is a designated terror organization by the US and other countries, called on Palestinians to help the Hamas terrorists and divert attention by “igniting all points of friction in the West Bank, to rain down bullets and explosives on their checkpoints, and kill the settlers in every alley.” It further urged to “harm the occupation’s soldiers and the settlers everywhere,” and to “take control of the settlers’ houses.” [All quotes from The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Palestine the Occupied Land, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]

Some posts explicitly encouraged terror inside Israel - “the 1948 territories” and in Jerusalem – in addition to the West Bank, urging Palestinian “fighters” to “launch an extensive attack on all targets of the Zionist enemy”:

Posted text: “In the name of All Merciful Allah – a statement from the headquarters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the occupied land of Palestine (i.e., Fatah’s military wing)
Based on the decision of the brigades’ headquarters – [this is] an announcement to all our fighters and all our military squads that are active in the areas of the West Bank to launch an extensive attack on all targets of the Zionist enemy – military posts, settlements – and to increase the attacks on the settlements surrounding Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem, Hebron, occupied Jerusalem, and the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), with all possible means and with all possible force, while using all types of weapons possible (refers to joining in the Hamas terror war; see note below -Ed.).
[This is] in participation with all the factions and military wings of the resistance.
The leadership of the headquarters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ [Brigades] – the occupied land of Palestine.”
[The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Palestine the Occupied Land, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]

A different channel, also associated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, called on Palestinians in the West Bank to “strike, burn, and slaughter” Israelis, arguing that it is easier for them to murder Israelis there, while the Gazan terrorists will murder Israelis across the Gazan border:

“Today is your day, O free people, O honored ones – this is Allah’s final promise.
O our beloved ones in the West Bank, get ready to strike them and to burn them, slaughter them.
Set out, all of you, with your weapons. Here the [Hamas] fighters went in to them from the territories of the beloved Gaza Strip and crossed distances – and you are closer to kill them in Hebron, the occupied Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel), Nablus, Tulkarem, and our entire proud West Bank.
Slaughter them, by Allah, this is the final promise.”

[The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades - Beit Ummar Brigade,
Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]​

The following are the items that appeared on the Telegram channel:

This was the first post on this TG channel on the day Hamas launched its terror war on Israel -Ed.

Posted text: “‘So fight them and Allah will punish them at your hands, put them to shame’ [Quran 9:14, Sahih International translation]’…
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar (i.e., “Allah is greatest”)!
This is a call for mobilization, a call for general mobilization(refers to the Hamas terror war; see note below -Ed.)!
All our lucky fighters in the West Bank must increase the level of full preparedness, unite in this true battle, and strike the settlers and occupation soldiers with full force and with all means.
This is the final promise (see note below -Ed.), O beloved ones. ‘They truly see this Day as impossible, but We see it as inevitable’ [Quran 70:6-7, Sahih International translation], and we are triumphing with Allah’s might.
Scents of Paradise have begun to blow.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – the occupied land of Palestine.”

[The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Palestine the Occupied Land,
Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]​

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Fatah: âStrike the sons of apes of pigs⦠slaughter everyone who is Israeliâ | PMW Analysis

Fatah: Slaughter everyone who is Israeli”

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[ The UN, not what it was when it was founded. Now, totally taken over by authoritarian dictatorships ]

The United Nations Security Council declined to condemn the war crimes committed by Hamas against Israel.

The war has so far resulted in 900 dead and more than 100 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza, including children, babies and elderly women.

UN Security Council refuses to condemn Hamas war crimes against Israel | World Israel News

“The statement should never have been made, and the United States should never have joined it,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office stated. By World

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WATCH: Rock band U2 dedicates song to Israel | World Israel News

Irish rock band U2 dedicates one of their songs - "Pride (In the Name of Love)" to Israel during performance Sunday in Las Vegas.

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EU, Germany, Austria suspend funding for Palestinian Authority | World Israel News

'There an be no business as usual,' says European Union, freezing funding of Palestinians after Hamas invasion and PA's refusal to condemn it.

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‘My heart is shattered.’ ‘The world cannot sit on the fence.’ Natalie Portman, Sarah Silverman and more react to the Israel-Gaza War

Jewish, non-Jewish and Israeli celebrities sounded off in support of Israel after the Gaza invasion this weekend.

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We were all wrong. Dead wrong. About everything except the brutality of Hamas.

The horrific acts of terror these militants filmed themselves carrying out are every bit as bad as their fiercest critics ever described. Our empathy for individual Palestinians in Gaza, our support for Palestinian national sovereignty, must never obscure the cold truth of Hamas militants: They are hateful, antisemitic terrorists who want to wipe Israel from the map.

They are also not going away.

At a panel discussion I moderated Sunday night in Manhattan, Lihi Ben Shitrit, director of the Israel studies program at NYU, reminded us of a scary truth: You don’t pick your enemies.

Israel and her allies have to find a way to crush Hamas — and to make peace with the Palestinians. Otherwise, our era will become the third in history in which Jewish control of Jerusalem did not last more than 80 years. The Palestinian conflict is our problem to solve, because Israel is our Jewish homeland to protect.

I was wrong about Israel’s vulnerability to this kind of devastating attack and wrong about the Israeli military’s asymmetrical advantages. But this weekend’s events make very clear I was not wrong about one important thing: The status quo is clearly not sustainable.

The coming days and weeks will be awful. Israel has no good options. Netanyahu must remain focused on bringing the hostages home. Opposition politicians should insist on that as a condition of entering the government, along with a promise of new elections once the war is over. The judicial overhaul plan must clearly be dropped, immediately.

And we, American Jews, human beings who abhor terror, must stand with Israel today. Stand with the citizens racing home from holidays abroad to do their reserve duty, with the partners and parents and siblings of the desert revelers kidnapped and killed, with the families evacuated indefinitely from the southern border communities.


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Everything I thought I knew about Israel and Gaza was wrong

We overestimated Israel's strength and the quality of its intelligence. The one thing we didn't overestimate was the brutality of Hamas.

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Survivors share accounts of encounters with terrorists, and an escape from Gaza

Residents of the Gaza border communities recount what happened to them, in and around their homes, in the terrifying hours of the Hamas invasion

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When it comes to spectacularly ill-timed opinion columns, it’s hard to top a piece that one Ottawa newspaper published on October 9.

Barely 48 hours after the horrific massacre of upwards of 800 innocent Israeli men, women and children – in addition to the forced abduction of at least 100 more – by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, which filmed many of their grotesque actions, The Hill Times published a column by a noted anti-Israel activist decrying Canada’s free trade deal with Israel.

Beyond the obvious poor taste of The Hill Times publishing a column attacking Canada’s diplomatic relations with Israel on the heels of the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, the article itself was riddled with logical inconsistencies.

The column, “Canada-Israel free trade deal an obstacle to just peace,” written by Dan Freeman-Maloy, criticized Ottawa’s 27-year-old free trade agreement with the Jewish State, falsely labeling it an “obstacle to a just peace.”

Freeman-Maloy argued that the 1996 pact “makes no distinction between pre-1967 Israel, the settler economy in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the economy of the millions of the Palestinians under Israeli military occupation.”

He cites the 1993 Oslo Accords, which set out a basic framework between Israel and the Palestinian leaders, as a basis for an eventual Palestinian state.

Here, it is important to set the record straight.

The Oslo Accords were not a peace agreement, but a generic understanding setting forward responsibilities on both Israel and the Palestinian leadership, which could then be the basis for a subsequent final status peace agreement.

According to the accords, the Palestinians were required to negotiate in good faith with Israel, which they have blatantly failed to do, given their consistent funding of terrorists and their families, and the constant incitement in Palestinian news media outlets towards peace with Israel. As such, no Palestinian state has been created and no independent Palestinian economy has been established.

The free trade deal is not an obstacle to peace in any way. If anything, by showing the economic ties between Canada and Israel, and the future potential, it can serve as an encouragement for the Palestinian leadership to seek peace, and not violence.

In the eyes of international law, Israeli communities in Judea & Samaria (often called the “West Bank” by the news media) do not in any way contravene international law, Israel contends, and as a result, the economy of these communities would be part of Israel’s.

As for Freeman-Maloy’s claim that “millions of…Palestinians under Israeli military occupation,” according to the very same Oslo Accords he cites, the large majority of Palestinians in Judea & Samaria live under the civil and military control not of Israel, but of the Palestinian Authority. This includes the large Palestinian towns of Ramallah, Jericho, Jenin, Nablus and Bethlehem.

As factually flawed as Freeman-Maloy’s column is, that is only part of the problem with its publication.

While it is possible that Freeman-Maloy’s column was penned before Hamas’ barbaric assault on communities in southern Israel, it is beyond comprehension why The Hill Times would decide to publish this piece following those terror attacks. Out of respect for the close to 1,000 victims of the Hamas terror rampage, the Hill Times must atone for publishing this column on the heels of such a massacre of innocents.

Two Days After Hamas Massacre In Israel, The Hill Times Publishes Column Calling For An End To Canada’s Free Trade Agreement With Israel - Honest Reporting Canada

When it comes to spectacularly ill-timed opinion columns, it’s hard to top a piece that one Ottawa newspaper published on October 9. Barely 48 hours after the horrific massacre of upwards of 800 innocent Israeli men, women and children – in addition to the forced abduction of at least 100 more –...

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The Israel Defense Forces said it had finally regained control over its suddenly porous border with the Gaza Strip Tuesday morning, some 72 hours after Hamas terrorists blew through sections of the barrier and launched an invasion that saw over 1,000 Israelis slaughtered or kidnapped.

As Israel continued to grapple with the emerging enormity of Saturday’s massacres and the military was formally notifying hostages’ families that their loved ones were being held in Gaza, air force planes bombarded wide swaths of the Strip. Meanwhile, some 300,000 reservists girded for a possible ground invasion, sweeps to locate terrorists feared still hiding inside Israel continued and tensions on the northern border threatened to snowball into a second front.

The IDF said it had managed to seal the border, mining areas around breaches as a stopgap against further incursions.

The death toll in Israel from the surprise attack and subsequent battles rose above 900, according to reports. Over 500 people remained hospitalized, many with life-threatening injuries; over 2,700 have been injured since Saturday.

“In the last day, not a single terrorist entered via the fence,” said the Israel Defense Forces’ top spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.

Despite earlier indications, Hagari said that the military had not identified any tunnels crossing from Gaza into Israeli territory.

The IDF estimates that there are a small number of terrorists still hiding in Israeli territory. Overnight, Israeli security forces killed at least one Palestinian terrorist near Kibbutz Sa’ad. Troops also exchanged fire with terrorists in Kissufim and Monday night saw police kill another terror suspect near Mishmar Hanegev, some 24 kilometers (15 miles) inside Israel.

Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said the bodies of 1,500 terrorists had been located around southern Israel. Hundreds more have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, according to Hamas health officials.

IDF says Gaza border finally sealed, bodies of 1,500 terrorists found inside Israel

Breaches in barrier being mined; military continues to notify relatives of those taken to Gaza; airstrikes target hundreds of sites in Strip, including Gaza City power base Rimal

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Part of the long line of MDA blood donors at Jerusalem's Pais Arena on October 10, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

It was 10:30 a.m. on Monday and the line of blood donors snaked up the wide staircase and around the spacious sidewalks surrounding Jerusalem’s Pais Arena stadium, just half an hour after the doors opened for the Magen David Adom blood drive.

Jerusalemites of all stripes — secular teens toting guitars and yeshiva boys with prayer books in hand, groups of worried mothers, English speakers, Russian and French immigrants, Christian pilgrims — all waited for hours, quietly and patiently, in order to donate blood.


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At Magen David Adom blood drive, a show of force by Israelis of every type

Hundreds from all walks of life stand in line for up to 11 hours at Jerusalem's Pais Arena in order to donate for devastated nation after Hamas bloodbath

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Eighteen Thai nationals are believed to have been killed due to the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel, Thailand's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

This comes after seven Argentinians were reported as killed during the attacks by Hamas terrorists in Israel over the weekend, and 15 more are still missing, Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero said Monday.

18 Thais, 7 Argentinians killed in Israel amid Hamas attacks

Thailand and Argentina are just two of the many countries whose nationals are missing in action in Israel, with many believed to either be held hostage of murdered by Hamas terrorists.

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The Hamas attack on Saturday could have been limited to military targets. They successfully overran IDF outposts and killed scores of soldiers, kidnapping more of them. Such an operation would have been a spectacular display of strategy and intelligence. One could understand Palestinian pride at such an attack.

But Hamas' goal, and the goal of their Iranian consultants, wasn't to defeat the IDF in a battle. The army was not the target of the operation. The IDF soldiers were a mere roadblock on the way to the real goal - of murdering, raping and kidnapping as many Jews as possible.

The kibbutzim weren't a military target. The villages weren't a military target. The music festival wasn't a military target. But they were the primary targets of the Palestinian terrorists, who gleefully took videos of their attacks against women and children, showing naked women as trophies, burning houses to force Jews to leave and be murdered, shooting rockets not to directly kill the Jews but to force them to run to shelters where they could be slaughtered en route.

Today, there are many articles in Arabic media about how this operation restored "dignity" to Palestinians. Al Jazeera, which was in the forefront of celebrating 9/11, published "Al-Qassam [Hamas] succeeded in restoring all meanings of dignity, pride, power and victory among Palestinians and Arabs."

Killing Jewish civilians isn't collateral damage. It is the goal. It is the highest aspiration of Palestinians. And judging from the responses in Arab editorials, it is one that is shared by a great percentage of the Arab world.

Comparing anyone to Nazis is almost always a lazy rhetorical device, meant to shock more than illuminate. But seeing the glee that accompanied this attack, as well as all other "successful" attacks on Jews in Israel, points to one comparison that cannot be ignored.

Certainly there were some Nazis who were extraordinarily sadistic, whose hate of Jews prompted them to come up with new ways of humiliating and breaking the spirit of Jewish victims. But much of the horror of the Holocaust was that it turned murder into an assembly line process. For the Nazis, dehumanizing the Jews was a necessary precondition for masses of Germans to take part in the genocide. But the Nazis tried to shield the Germans from seeing the murders directly.

The US Holocaust Museum's article on the mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen who murdered up to two million Jews, describes how the shootings morphed into the initial gassings: "The mass shootings were resource-intensive, requiring many shooters and escort guards as well as guns, ammunition, and transport. Concerns about the inefficiency of the shootings and their psychological impact on the shooters led to the development of special vans outfitted with engines that pumped carbon monoxide into sealed passenger compartments. "

The only psychological impact we have seen in the Arab world to the deliberate slaughter of hundreds of innocent Jews in a single day is an overflow of happiness and glee.

The German people and other antisemites in Eastern Europe who enabled the Holocaust with their centuries-old hate of Jews were not, on the whole, gleeful about the killings (unless they could directly profit by stealing the Jews' possessions.) They looked at murdering Jewish children the same way they looked at someone exterminating rats and mosquitoes - a dirty but necessary job. The gas chambers murdered the Jews while protecting the ":civilized" Germans from having to witness their deaths.

The Arabs, on the other hand, revel in trading videos of dead Jews like baseball cards.

Germans didn't hand out sweets on the street corners for every dead Jew. The Palestinians do - and not one of them says publicly how disgusting this is.

The Palestinians aren't embarrassed at their glee. Much of the larger Arab world is gleeful as well. People have rightly noted that Simchat Torah was Israel's 9/11 - but this is not only true from the victims' side but from the attackers' side as well. The same spontaneous celebrations that broke out in Arab capitals on September 11, 2001 are being seen from Muslims living in Western capitals, today, because so many Jews were slaughtered. As I noted earlier today, one Al Jazeera columnist said that the entire Muslim world was celebrating, saying the massacre and rapes "inspired hope in the hearts of the Palestinians at home and abroad, and in the hearts of the Arab and Islamic peoples, in an unprecedented way."

Palestinians will be writing poems and songs celebrating their murder of Jews for years and decades to come.

The idea that killing Jews is the ultimate source of pleasure can be seen in another way. According to the IDF, some 1,500 terrorist bodies have been found in Israel. For all the hundreds of Jews killed, more Hamas members were killed already outside the airstrikes in Gaza. Sacrificing more than one militant to kill each Israeli civilian is still considered "dignified."

One can easily imagine the parents of the 1,500 dead Palestinians in terms of the story of Sisera's mother in the Song of Deborah, being comforted knowing that her son's troops are sharing "a womb or two for every soldier." But the Palestinian parents are more monstrous than Sisera's mother - they know their sons are not coming home, but they feel that the Jews they murdered and the women they raped made their deaths worthwhile.

Can anyone doubt that Palestinians would happily use a nuclear bomb to destroy Israel even if it killed most of them as well? Can anyone doubt that the Palestinians would happily architect a new Holocaust to murder the seven million Jews in Israel if they had the capability?

We are seeing Palestinian supporters worldwide celebrating dead, raped and kidnapped Jews. They aren't Nazis. But in a narrow sense, they are far worse.

Of course you cannot compare Palestinian terrorists to Nazis. In one sense, the Palestinians are worse.

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"The Al-Aqsa Flood is a live-fire maneuver of a larger operation that is expected to eliminate the existence of the Israeli enemy in reality [i.e. comprehensively], not only in Palestine. The Zionist soldier and the Zionist settler must begin the countdown of the remaining days of their existence.

"We are talking about the blessed Palestinian flood of resistance, a flood of Palestinian resistance that is part of the resistance axis. If the flood of the resistance axis reaches you, what will you do, you Zionists? The U.S. will not help you with a thing... It did not manage to predict this, and will not manage to stop the Al-Aqsa flood. [Also] your friends, the preachers of normalization with part of the Arab world, will not help you...

"Oh occupier Zionists, expect the biggest battle, Allah willing, and if you want to save yourselves you have an opportunity to go to the airport and [sea]ports and leave. We advise you to swap your demonstrations in the squares against your officials... with gatherings at the airports and [sea]ports to board planes and ships. Free us of the battle that is coming to you. You have seen today only part of the war and much more awaits you..."[1]

Hizbullah Official: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood Is Only A Maneuver In A Larger Operation That Will Eliminate Israel

Hizbullah official Hashem Salhab, who is in charge of the organization's unit for its unions, said in an October 8, 2023 speech in the northern Lebanese city of Qarha that "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" is just a maneuver in advance of a larger and multi-arena operation that will eliminate Israel...

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Meet the Jews defending Hamas

“No peace on stolen land,” demonstrators chanted at a rally sponsored by several small Jewish organizations.

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There are terrorists and there are terror multipliers. Hamas committed the atrocities of torturing, murdering, decapitating, raping, and kidnapping Israelis. But it is the PA and Fatah who by joining with full-fledged support have galvanized the Palestinian population behind the ISIS-like atrocities. Palestinian Media Watch has documented that the PA and Fatah are actively celebrating the atrocities, urging Palestinians in the West Bank and inside Israel to join the terror, and to “strike the sons of apes and pigs” and “slaughter everyone Israeli.”



Fatah and the PA are now calling for the end of Israel, urging Palestinians to “land more blows” on Israel – “the main enemy.” Hamas’ massacre of civilians has prompted them to present Israel as weak “as a cobweb.” These were the words of a Fatah official at a rally in support of the Hamas terror war against Israel near Nablus:

Fatah Tubas Branch Secretary Mahmoud Sawafta: “We support all those who have taught the occupation (i.e., Israel) one lesson after another, and it is clear that this occupation did not understand this [Palestinian] people well. In these moments we say to it that 27 occupations have come to this area and all the occupations were defeated. We are certain that this occupation – as you saw last night and everyday - this occupation is weaker than cobwebs and in the end it will be defeated. Therefore, crowd the ranks more, unite more, and land more blows on this occupation, because this occupation is the main enemy.”

[Official PA TV, Oct. 8, 2023]​

The PA term “the occupation,” refers to all of Israel and not merely the West Bank. This statement echoes a Fatah member who also mocked Israel, gloating that its “undefeatable army is weaker than cobwebs.”



In a speech in 2019, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah bragged that he was “confident of victory” against Israel and that “Israel is weaker than a spider web.” Possibly, these comparisons of Israel to a cobweb are inspired by a verse from the Quran that compares “those who take allies other than Allah,” to a spider whose home is “the weakest of homes.” [Quran 29:41, Sahih International translation]



The PA has stressed its support for the massacre of hundreds of Israeli civilians by Hamas from day one. Right after Hamas’ attack, “the [mosque] minarets in the West Bank began making calls of ‘Allahu Akbar’ (i.e., “Allah is greatest”) in an expression of support” and “processions of support” took place in several PA cities. Below is a celebration in Ramallah:

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[Al-Jazeera, Qatari state-owned news agency, Oct. 7, 2023]​

The following is a longer excerpt of the Al-Jazeera report cited above:

"When the start of the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ battle was announced, the [mosque] minarets in the West Bank began making calls of ‘Allahu Akbar’(i.e., “Allah is greatest”) in an expression of support for the resistance, and many cities in the West Bank set out in processions of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance as a sign of support for the battle.
Massive processions set out in a number of places in the West Bank, such as a large gathering in a square in central Nablus, and mass-participant processions also set out in Jenin, Tubas, Ramallah, Ibn Rushd Square in Hebron, and Bethlehem, and also in Jerusalem a procession set out meant to celebrate the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ battle.”
[Al-Jazeera, Qatari state-owned news agency, Oct. 7, 2023

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