Oct. 7 Marked A Civilizational Battle For Both Israel And The US
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Not so long ago, you could see them, you could meet them, because they lived among us — as grandparents, as neighbors, as partners, as friends, as the man down the street who seemed perhaps older than he was. In time, perhaps, you came to know their stories: the story of the tattoo on the old woman’s arm, the story of the grandfather who was drafted and found himself half a world away shocked by a camp and the machinery of death. Public-school teachers would hand you books with titles like Number the Stars or The Diary of a Young Girl, and you would know there was a lesson within, summed up in two simple words of command: Never again.
But the generation that survived the powers of evil, and that saw its works and tore them down, has mostly passed now, and so one year ago today it happened again. The horrors of Oct. 7th, 2023, were a grim dredging-up of every tableau of the Holocaust — Jews hiding in basements, Jews tortured to death by laughing men, Jews killed for being Jews — with the added element unique to the culture and mores of the Palestinian perpetrators, Jews hauled off as slaves to be held for ransom, raped and worse.
The story does not end there. If Oct. 7, 2023, showed that the hatred and evil of murderous antisemitism was alive and well, then on Oct. 7th, 2024...
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