(1) It’s my impression that although both the Nazis and Hamas jihadis were/are into torture, Hamas seems to prefer to torture a larger percentage of its victims, up close and personal.

(2) The Nazis killed about 2/3 of the Jews of Europe and approximately 1/3 of the Jews who had been alive in the entire world prior to the war. I don’t know what percentage of world Jewry has been killed in terrorist attacks by Hamas and other jihadis up to and including October 7, but it’s nowhere near a match to the efficiency of the Nazi Jew-killing machine. However, jihadis have the very same ambition: to eliminate Jews from the face of the earth. They also want to kill quite a few Christians along the way; maybe ultimately all of them, too, if they won’t convert.

[The Nazis weren’t too particular about Christians either, although that was more about ethnic genocide in eastern Europe rather than religion. The first point is the most striking, though; Hamas and other jihadis don’t just engage in slaughter of defenseless people, they revel in it. The Nazis knew enough to keep it somewhat hidden. But we’re making very small distinctions here, really. — Ed]