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Israel must fight Hamas, not Palestinians

Derwin Pereira
Derwin Pereira • 8 min read
Israel must fight Hamas, not Palestinians
A United Nations camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza / Photo: Bloomberg
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On Oct 7, Israel was hit by a human plague of epic proportions. Like a swarm of locusts descending on a rich harvest, Hamas terrorists from Palestinian Gaza invaded Israel by air, land and sea to produce the worst day in the Jewish state’s history since its founding in 1948.

The terrorists went on a destructive spree reminiscent of the primitive frenzy of medieval barbarians. They attacked peaceful settlements, homely kibbutz and a happy music festival in a scripted blitz copied from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) during its reign of terror in those two countries before it was overthrown in 2019.

Isis wanted to erase modern history by eradicating its cognitive institutions — its schools, universities and libraries where humans learned to think for themselves — and replacing them with reincarnated structures of a dying past in which humans would cherish violence, war, the subjugation of women, and the obliteration of religious minorities, all through unquestioning obedience to religious authority wearing a gun slung around its haughty shoulder.

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