The shocking nature of the carnage is not a case of “militants” who got carried away in the heat of battle. This is the jihadist way of war. There was not much battling in any event: These were jihadists strategically using terror, as they are instructed is their divinely ordained obligation, to obliterate their perceived enemies. Not just break their will; extirpate them. In my column on the homepage this morning, I try to explain why it is important to call them jihadists and stop assessing them under Western standards of warfare. Further, we have to grasp that their Jew-hatred is doctrinal — this is not, pace the revisionism of transnational progressives, a mere territorial dispute in which aliens were intruded into Arab Muslim due to Western guilt over the Holocaust. We need to see clear that these are jihadists catalyzed by a fundamentalist, sharia-supremacist interpretation of Islamic scripture; otherwise, we will never understand their objectives, the atrocious lengths to which they will go to achieve them, and the need to defeat them utterly because there can be no modus vivendi with them.
[Heck, why not just take their word for it? Hamas and their affiliates are hardly hiding their intentions and ambitions. The idea that this is about dispossession of a relatively small group of Arabs has always been a Western fantasy. This is the reality. — Ed]
"The day of your slaughter, extermination and annihilation is clear until near…"
"We will totally exterminate you. We will not leave a single one of you alive."
Hamas, in its own words.
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 10, 2023
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