Fighting Against The Final Solution

The last time Jews have seen evil on this scale was in the Holocaust.  What's happening now is the Hamas/Muslim allies version of The Final Solution.  They have never made any pretenses otherwise. Their whole goal is to eradicate Israel, and the Jewish people.  

This has come as no surprise to us Jews, but I think until now, most people have never realized what anti-semites are capable of.  Thanks to cable news and social media, people are able to see murder and depravity on a scale they've never imagined.  If the Nazis had had TV and smartphones, they would have live-streamed the gas chambers.

What has come as somewhat of a surprise to me is the depth of anti-Jewish feeling by people all around the world.  When I saw Hamas supporters screaming "Gas the Jews!" in front of the Sydney Opera House after seeing footage of the dead in Israel, I felt sick to my stomach. 

Read this excellent piece by Bari Weiss at The Free Press. Here's an excerpt:

"On the one hand I think: surely this will be sufficient. Surely this amount of blood will be enough to shake the world awake. Surely no one can equivocate or justify this. As my friend Sarah Haider wrote, “How easy is it to simply condemn targeted violence against civilians? Can there be a lower bar?” 

"And yet, across the world, people have sunk below it.

"Here you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering 'gas the Jews' and 'death to the Jews.' People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of Berlin and London and Toronto and New York. (Scroll down to read our Free Press dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.)

"At our most prestigious universities there is silence from administrations that leapt to speak out on George Floyd’s killing and on the war in Ukraine. Indeed, Meantime, the social justice crowd offers explanations for the massacre—a massacre that, in part, targeted a group of progressive Israelis at a music festival. Terrorists came to that festival on paragliders carrying machine guns to start their slaughter. They raped women there next to the dead bodies of their friends.

"In that way, as Free Press editor and writer Peter Savodnik explains in our second piece in today’s digest, the last few days have been extremely clarifying. 

"Because now we know.

"Now we know who would have looked at Jews shoved onto cattle cars and said, 'Well, they did undermine the German economy.'  Those are the people today saying: 'This is a justified response to the provocation of Israel existing.' Now we know whose politics are rooted not in conservatism or liberalism or anything else other than simply hating Jews. Now we can see exactly how people manage to always come up with a reason for why the Jews deserved it. 

"The people cheering and waving flags are not celebrating Palestinian liberation. The Hamas attack that began on October 7 won’t lead to a free Palestine. Instead, it will lead—it is already leading—to a horrific escalation, with many more dead on both sides. The people cheering are celebrating death. I’m struck that American intellectuals are reprinting the picture of the paraglider as an image of liberation, like a hip new logo, that visual of death. 

"Hamas broadcast the slaughter. I thought it would be enough."

 Unfortunately, it isn't.