The entire World is shocked and alarmed concerning Hamas’ surprise savage ground and rocket assault on Israel, launching thousands of missiles, committing Nazi-style, atrocities, storming into homes, butchering hundreds of Israeli civilians, raping, taking hostages, conducting mass executions, burning people in their houses, dragging pregnant women through the streets, even beheading babies
We would, emphatically, refrain from designating Hamas’ horrendous assault against the Jewish State of Israel by land, sea, and air, as a “War,” analogous to Putin’s illegal incursion against Ukraine. No dispute over territory, boundaries, natural resources, or motivating incidents is existent. To avoid possible confusion, with a separate matter, Hamas is definitively, not a friend of the disgruntled Palestinians and the horrendous situation is unrelated to the issues relative to the Palestine-Israel territorial disputes.
In our view, the bloody assault amounts, not to a “War” but rather, to a current mutation and resurrection of the dreaded virus, causative of the chronic pandemic of anti-Semitism.
The latter made its debut in the 4th Century, during the era of the Holy Roman Empire [See: “Constantine’s Sword” by James C. Carroll]. Carroll, a retired Catholic priest, and novelist, has, in the cited book, illuminated the historical advent of said eternal, deadly prejudice. The subject events, inarguably, amount to a continuation of what is empirically, demonstrated by World History, to be yet another, tragic event in the chronic pathology of anti-Semitism. After more than two thousand years of hatred and murder of Jews, inclusive of traditional pogroms, and the Holocaust (regarding which the accommodating Church, under Pope Pius the 12th remained totally silent), the numerous death camps, the present Hamas attack, presumably, with the financial and military training assistance of Iran (the latter Nation, expressly, and historically, opposed to the continued existence of the Jewish Nation) can historically and empirically, be understood as a wholesale “pogrom,” another serial chapter in the long-entrenched bloody history of anti-Semitism.
Historically and relevantly, the State of Israel was established by survivors of the European Holocaust and the steady flow of refugees from the widespread Eastern and Central European anti-Semitic pogroms. The recent, popular protagonist of anti-Semitism was Adolph Hitler, who described his initiated World War, specifically, as his “War against the Jews” (Mein Kampf).
It has been suggested, by some analysts, that the improving relationships between Israel, Saudi Arabia, and certain other Middle Eastern nations, alarmed Iran and the subject terrorists, for fear that there be a two-state solution with Palestine, thereby, assuring the permanent existence of the State of Israel; the latter, being an anathema to Teheran and their Hamas terrorists.
Israel is, at present, confronted with an almost insurmountable feat, the psychopathic terrorists having taken hostages, both Israeli and American, and presumably, enjoying the military and financial support of Iran. However, in our view, with America’s assistance, and, from historical experience grounded upon the myriad of Israeli past miracles, we remain confident that it will, before long, justly prevail over the Nazi-style terrorists and their pernicious sponsor.
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