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To: marcher who wrote (202577)	11/12/2023 11:38:49 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217771

NEWS WORLD Herald views footage of merciless Oct. 7 Hamas killings News Analysis: No escape for innocent Israeli women, children An Israeli flag and red roses adorn photos of kidnapped, missing or killed Israelis during a rally in support of Israel at MIT last month. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald) By JOE DWINELL \| joed@bostonherald.com \| Boston Herald PUBLISHED: November 7, 2023 at 4:14 a.m. \| UPDATED: November 7, 2023 at 10:46 p.m. “Why am I still alive?” A young boy helplessly cried that out after his father had just been killed in a kibbutz by marauding Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Death, at that point, was the only escape. It’s one of a series of heart-wrenching clips compiled by the Israel Defense Forces viewed by the Herald Monday in a downtown Boston office along with other journalists. In about 43 minutes of footage, you see “138 murders,” said Ambassador Meron Reuben, consulate general of Israel to New England. It’s not the social media snippets making the rounds. It’s graphic, unsettling, and turn-away carnage that shines a light on just how unforgiving the terrorists were. Many tried to hide, but they died. The Hamas killers were armed with what appeared to be newer assault rifles and plenty of hand grenades. Yes, babies were killed and burned. Women were tortured. A group of about a dozen teenage girls were cornered. A man had his head chopped off by a Hamas terrorist using a heavy-duty hoe. The terrorists were gleeful — with one using an Israeli woman’s cellphone to call home to Gaza to proclaim: “Your son is a hero!” His shocked father and crying mother on the other end of the line didn’t seem to grasp what was happening. The Israelis were trapped. They were shown no mercy and had no chance of escaping from the gunmen who showed no remorse. The IDF estimates that 1,400 civilians and troops were killed that day in the surprise attack — most were civilians. Another 240 were kidnapped, and roughly 6,900 were injured, according to the IDF. College presidents and deans confronting pro-Palestinian protests on campus from Harvard to UMass could soon be invited to watch the video, Reuben said when asked by the Herald what he would say to protesting students. “This is the first time I’ve seen it,” he said of the video. “Those who are doubting what happened should think again and understand this time it’s different.” That’s what comes across in the video. From the tranquil kibbutz scenes to a rave packed with young revelers, the victims had no idea what awaited them. Music was softly playing in homes and a friendly black Labrador Retriever, tail wagging, greeted the first terrorists only to be gunned down on the spot. The estimated 3,000 Hamas killers and others who joined in the border ambush that day were hellbent on inflicting as much pain as one man could do to another. The footage of this attack illustrates one overriding reality: fight or die. “This is the first time the state of Israel has shown pictures so the world understands what we are facing,” Reuben said, adding too many have become “desensitized” by violence in movies. “This is not a movie set.” He stressed he “would like” protesting college students to see what happened to their contemporaries to add balance to their thinking. The rave where so many young adults were killed and captured was a killing field. The Israeli soldiers rushing to that scene could be heard in the audio from their body-camera video praying, pleading for someone, anyone, to still be alive among all the dead bodies behind Coca-Cola pop-up stands. “Anyone alive?” a soldier says. “Anyone, please!” another added. The video was less than 10% of the killing that day. The Herald was asked to be careful not to describe any particular killing too closely — hostages are still alive — but with Hamas pledging to invade again this video is a chilling warning. The footage taken from dash cams, body cameras, closed circuit TV, cellphones and social media is disturbing in its brutality. A driver coming upon the invading Hamas fighters guns his engine in reverse only to be mowed down in a hail of bullets; terrorists pull into neighborhoods in pick-up trucks filled with fighters. An ambulance had its tires shot out, one more cruel calculation … box cutters were used to rip open screendoors … a kindergarten is targeted … a burned body of someone who couldn’t crawl away fast enough … and rivers of blood in every frame. “College students should see this,” Reuben repeated. “Israel is fighting for its very existence. There’s no question about it,” said Grand Rabbi Y.A. Korff, chaplain for the City of Boston. The Herald called seeking insight after seeing such a dark video. “There’s a place beyond words,” author Jerzy Kosinski wrote in his Holocaust tale “The Painted Bird.” That should be the title of this video.

To: marcher who wrote (202577)	11/12/2023 12:05:40 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217771

Hamas’ goal is to kill and create ‘permanent’ conflict Reporters take cover upon hearing sirens warning of an incoming rocket attack from Gaza, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot last month, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) November 12, 2023 at 12:34 a.m. Former President Barack Obama has shamefully come down on the side of moral equivalence in the Middle East. He should know better. In a recent interview, Obama implied that Israel and Hamas are both to blame for the ongoing fighting. “Nobody’s hands are clean,” he said, adding, “All of us are complicit to some degree.” This helps explain why America’s relationship with Israel was fraught with tensions during Obama’s eight years in the White House. The Obama administration’s preferred diplomatic approach was to appease Iran with pallets of cash in hopes it would rein in its terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah. Meanwhile, “The Obama strategy of pressuring Israel and indulging the Palestinians made no progress toward peace,” The Wall Street Journal’s Elliot Kaufman noted. Obama’s policies were utter failures. And his implication that bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists and Israel are equally at fault for stoking the flames of war is as dangerous as it is naive. The New York Times published interviews with various Hamas officials who are reveling in the carnage — even the deaths of their own people. The Oct. 7 attack and the subsequent bloodshed are necessary to “change the entire equation and not just have a clash,” Khalil al-Hayya, a member of Hamas’ top leadership body, told the newspaper from Doha, Qatar. “We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm." Far from seeking peace, another Hamas higher-up told the Times that the group wants a “permanent” conflict with Israel in hopes of uniting various Arab nations against the Jewish state. The goal is to wipe Israel off the map and establish a Palestinian-Islamist state in its place. As for those living in Gaza, the territory that Hamas runs? The group could not care less about bettering conditions for its own people or minimizing civilian deaths during war. Quite the opposite. “This battle was not because we wanted fuel or laborers,” al-Hayya said to the Times. “It did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza. This battle is to completely overthrow the situation.” Indeed, Israel Defense Forces have released photos of Hamas rocket launchers located near mosques, nurseries and schools. The group not only seeks to kill innocent Israelis, it purposely puts its own citizens at risk in order to use their deaths for propaganda purposes. This is whom Obama puts on equal moral footing with Israel, a functioning democracy fighting for its existence? Shameful. Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service