Today is the funeral of Matilda, the 10-year-old girl murdered by terrorists in Hanukkah Massacre on Bondi Beach. I cannot stop thinking about her.
I woke up Sunday morning knowing that evening would be the first night of Hanukkah. I went to Facebook to post a happy photo of my dreidel collection, something I do every year. But instead, I saw the horror that was Bondi Beach in Australia. I was in no mood to post a happy Hanukkah photo.
What really distresses me are those who shout, ‘Globalize the intifada” or “From the River to the Sea.” Especially when it is a Jewish person who has turned away from supporting the survival of Israel and instead seems to be supporting Hamas. I really cannot stand their actions anymore.
With a child and her family living in Israel, when I see those words I think, “So you want my family killed.” “So you want all Jews to be killed.” Do you realize when you say “Globalize the intifada” that includes you. Jihadists do not care if you are a Hamas supporting Jew or not. They will just kill you.
When people hear that 1250 Israelis were killed on October 7, they assume that they were all Jews. Not true. Hamas did not care who they killed or who were the 250 hostages they took. Because they hate. Among the dead and hostages were other Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus. But to the world it was Jews. How ignorant.
When they say Israel was the occupier, they are deluded. Israel withdrew all its people from Gaza in 2004. It has stayed outside, just protecting its borders from the constant attacks from Gaza. The missiles and rockets came every year like clockwork on certain Israeli or Jewish holidays. But the western media never reported on those attacks because Israel built thousands of bomb shelters to protect its people, so most attacks were futile. The news only reports when people die. But that doesn’t mean the bombings didn’t happen. The western media only reported when Israel fired back. And then it was Israel bombs Gaza, with no context. To say the western media is anti-Israel and anti-Semitic is putting it mildly.
So now we have Jewish young adults who are so ignorant of Jewish and Israeli history they are siding with the terrorists. I guess they think that makes them morally better because they stick up for the ‘underdog’. But honestly, since the global population of Muslims is 2 billion and the global population of Jews is less than 16 million, I think they have the underdog confused.
Some also say, “I am not Anti-Semitic, I am anti-Zionist.” Is there a difference? NO! Every year we end the Passover seder with these words, “next year in Jerusalem.” What do they think that means? It is a prayer and wish for all Jews to return to Israel. The return to Israel is what Zionism means, to return to the land of our ancestors.
Israel has fought for its survival. Israel stands up to terror and hatred. It is time that the world acknowledges the truth. Hamas started the war; Hamas hid food from the people of Gaza, Hamas built tunnels to care for its terrorists and left the people of Gaza to suffer; Hamas murders innocent Gazans who disagree with their beliefs. You are a fool if you believe the lies that the media repeats with information from Hamas. Globalize the intifada means killing you as well. Finally, some countries, like the United Kingdom are pushing back about this phrase and calling it what it is, a cry for violence.
Even Amnesty International with its pro-Hamas outlook finally had to release its report that acknowledges that what Hamas did was a war crime. They did not want to release it, because it shows their own moral crimes by not standing up for those murdered, raped and brutalized by Hamas on October 7 and after as hostages. From their website: “Amnesty International research confirms that crimes committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups during their attacks on October 7, 2023, and against those they seized and held hostage were part of a systematic and widespread assault against the civilian population and amount to crimes against humanity.“
Gaza could have been a Mediterranean Sea paradise. Instead, Hamas used the money given to them for the people of Gaza to use for their own interests. They built tunnels, they purchased rockets, missiles and rocket launchers. They purchased guns and weapons. They did nothing for the people of Gaza.
Israel provided the people water and electricity. Gazans went into Israel to work. They went into Israel for medical care. In return the schoolbooks in Gaza painted Israelis and Jews as the villains and taught children to be martyrs only by killing Jews.
Hamas attacked Israel with the intent of killing and destroying as many people and places as possible. They wanted to create fear. They took hostages and brutalized them. The videoed the horror that they inflected on the those they killed and brutalized. They posted these videos online. They live-streamed. Then they denied they did what the vidoes showed.. They thought the world would stop the Israelis from fighting back. For the first time that did not happen.
I feel for the people of Gaza, the women and children who have been used by Hamas for terror. I feel for them now with no homes as the rainy season is here.
Do I think all Muslims are terrorists? Of course not. We see that with the brave shopkeeper in Australia who risked his life in an effort to stop the gunman. We see the truth by the many Israeli Muslims who stand up for Israel, their homeland. We see the truth in the Imams who said the terror attacks are not the true way of Islam.
Do I like Netanyahu or Ben Gvir. NO. I think both are bad for Israel in the long run. Should there be an inquiry as to what happened on the lead up to October 7. Absolutely. But on the other hand, should they have sat back and let Hamas kill more Jews. Never. Never.
It is time for the Western media, politicians and all Jews to face the reality of extremist jihadists. To look at what is happening in Sudan, Nigeria, and other areas of the world where Jihadists are killing people and realize that this horror could come to all countries.
Those who continue to support the violence and hate of Hamas and chant Globalize the intifada, you are just as evil as the ones who kill, murder, rape, brutalize all in the name of a false view of religion.
Tags: Amnesty International, Bondi Beach, gaza, Hamas, Hanukkah Massacre, Israel, Jew Hatred, palestine
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