The Dedicated Savagery of Palestinian Terrorism

"Since the round of fighting in May two years ago there is a decision by Hamas leadership to display unprecedented restraint and forbearance."

"For over two  years there hasn't been a single rocket fired under Hamas initiative from Gaza."

"Hamas is very, very restrained and understands the consequences of further defiance."

Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi 

 

"Dad, I am speaking to you from a Jew's phone."

"I killed her and her husband  -- killed them with my own hands."

"I am in Meflasim father. I killed 10. Ten! Ten with my own bare hands."

"Their blood is on my hands."

"Mother, your son is a hero."

October7/23 Hamas terrorist 

 

"Today, yes, today, our people resume their revolution, rectify their path and return to the plan of liberation and the establishment of the state through blood and martyrdom."

"...Today is the day of the great revolution that will end the last occupation and the last racist apartheid regime in the world."

"To the brothers in the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, the day has come when your resistance joins the people of Palestine."

Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif

 

"Our objective is clear: we want to liberate our land, our  holy sites, our al-Aqsa, our prisoners. This is the goal that is worthy of this battle, worthy of this heroism, worthy of this courage."

"We have only one thing to say to you [Israel]: Get out of our sight. Get out of our Jerusalem and our al-Aqsa."

"We don't want to see  you on this land. This land is ours; Jerusalem is ours, everything is ours."

"You are intruders on this pure and blessed land. There is no place for you."

Ismail Haniyeh, head, Hamas political office 

Palestinian terrorists move towards the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7.  Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

   

It is beyond difficult for normal, ordinary people to grasp just how it is possible that a human mind could be so gripped with a mind-consuming hatred as to make it even remotely possible that in a chaotic frenzy of deadly loathing overtaking all other emotions, that of human fraternity, compassion, empathy, rational thought and most of all that very intimate reaction to committing lethal physical harm on others, would restrain anyone, anyone at all other than those who have experienced the mass psychosis of self-assumed victimhood driving a collective thrust for vengeance against an imagined enemy. 

 

Yet continued, ongoing exposure in a tribal setting where leaders deliberately set out to convince their civilian public from infancy to youth of the grandeur of honour to be gained in the ferocious determination to slaughter those identified as their enemy will do it. Characterizing Jews -- settled as a nation in their ancestral Judean homeland, an ancient geographic reality that preceded the arrival of Arabs in the region by millennia -- as 'invaders' out to conquer the world, starting with the Arabs in the Middle East, insulting to Islam as rank imposters worshiping a false god.

 

The passion of hatred against the shared vision of a Jewish state plotting to extinguish the aspirations of Arab Palestinians on land they claim as their own, has seen a complete and utter inversion of cause and effect; Palestinians dedicated to the  eradication of Israel and the slaughter of Jews, invoking their version of reality; Israeli Jews becoming the invaders and mass murderers victimizing Palestinians, when the violent assaults against Jews by Palestinian Arabs, beginning with the Palestine Liberation Organization and morphing into the PFLP, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and a myriad of others like Hezbollah dedicated and fully psychopathic are the actual transgressors.

Which led to four thousand terrorists, and an estimated two thousand Palestinian civilians entering Israel from Gaza, to launch a mass terror attack, a surprise incursion that had been planned and rehearsed for up to two years, until the final decision was made. Maps had been hand-drawn of farming communities showing where the security bases in each were located; maps conveniently produced by Palestinians who had been given employment as agricultural workers in those same kibbutzim whose members fully empathized with Palestinians in Gaza. The kibbutzim received the brunt of the destruction and pillaging.

But there was also a nearby music festival with thousands of Israeli youth from all over Israel in attendance. The Nova Music Festival was to have been a place of music, dancing, good fellowship and celebration. It turned into a venue of horror with mass rape, dismemberment and torture; barbarity on a grand scale. Hundreds of young people died, fleeing in panic from the bloodlust-maddened terrorists whose goal was death and destruction. The Israeli military posts, accustomed to constant barrages of rockets from Gaza, and unprepared for what was to follow, ended the day with IDF soldiers either killed or taken hostage.

 

A final count of 1,200 deaths from that fateful day which included mostly civilians, mostly Israeli Jews, but Israeli Arabs and foreign farm workers as well who suffered the same savage fate as the slaughtered Jewish children,  youth, women and men. 250 infants, children, elderly, women and men, along with IDF personnel were taken into Gaza to serve as hostages. Where they were subjected to torture, starvation, isolation and injuries that were never treated, most being kept in the network of underground tunnels that served Hamas as weapons depots, command centers, communications areas and refuge from detection for Hamas operatives.

Israel was unprepared for the carnage of October 7, 2023. Its leaders and intelligence groups had convinced themselves that the-then ceasefire arrangement with Hamas would hold. There had been no real skirmishes, to alert Israeli authorities beforehand. Even though some of the Israeli female IDF lookouts had reported suspicious activities nearby, when in fact these were rehearsals for the stealth invasion that was to follow on October 7. Their warnings were ignored; Israel's government wanted to believe that Hamas had finally relented, even though its charter was clear: the destruction of Israel. 

 

Naama Levy bodycam video taken by Hamas

That Saturday morning, the time of a national heritage holiday of Simchat Torah, a time of great rejoicing, Israelis in southern Israel heard a rocket bombardment heading from Gaza to Israel, but this in and of itself was not unusual. What was unusual was that at the border between Israel and Gaza, bulldozers were ramming the security fence separating the two, and waiting trucks, motorcyclists and those on foot swarmed through the fence on their way to disperse toward their target Israeli communities, to begin shooting people waiting at bus stops. They invaded homes to kill the inhabitants, breaking down safe rooms, and torching other homes with entire families burned to death.

 

This kind of dedicated savagery of sadistic proportions is the result of hatred so intense that a young man who had just killed ten Jews was eager to impart the good news of his heroism to his approving, congratulatory parents. The kind of sadistic savagery that saw Palestinian terrorists run down horrified, frightened girls and woman for mass rape and mutilation. Men so proud of their accomplishments that they took care to video their atrocities to air them as proof positive of their courage and heroic status.  

"We made them think that Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [in Gaza] and has abandoned the resistance altogether."

"All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack."

Lebanon-based senior Hamas official Ali Baraka, October 8 

 

"Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation and must be finished."

"We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again."

"The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight."

Hamas politburo member Ghazi Hamad  

Hamas terrorists stormed the Nova festival on 7 October and killed hundreds   BBC, Nik Millard