Douglas Murray
NY Post, Nov. 9, 2023
“Hamas didn’t allow them to live. The world must never forget this.”
It is the nature of the news cycle that huge things get passed over. But what happened just over a month ago in Israel should not be passed over.
The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear. Yet the world seems to have moved on. Already the international media are focused not on the atrocities Hamas committed against Israel but on the response of Israel to the terrorists of Hamas.
Every day the New York Times and other papers give their views on how Israel should bring the war to a draw. And every day there are protests across the world made up of people who are either evil or ignorant.
That some of the anti-Israel protesters are ignorant is provable. Two girls interviewed at one pro-Hamas protest in London were asked what their reaction was when they first learned that Hamas had attacked Israel on October 7. “I don’t believe they did, did they,” said one.
“Honestly, I think I need to be a bit more clued up on everything that’s going on, so I feel I’m not really qualified to answer that too well,” said the other.
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