In recent days, I’ve spoken with dozens of Gazans who are furious about what is unfolding around them. They are angry, one told me, at the “hordes of selfish people who are attacking aid convoys to steal and collect aid in a horrific manner without caring for Gazans who chose not to participate in these humiliating and demeaning displays of inhumanity, no matter the level of hunger.” But their anger is directed primarily at Hamas, which they hold responsible for putting the people of Gaza in this position, and for its continued refusal to end the war that it started. “Hitler fought in his bunker until he killed himself in World War II in the Battle of Berlin,” another person said, complaining that Hamas is hunkered down in its tunnels, willing to see Gaza destroyed to the very last child.
Richard Fernandez notes the accuracy of the comparison with Hitler; normally such things are overblown, but he linked us to the relevant document. He adds:
"Ascendency" is being used in an ambiguous way there; it doesn't mean better or more moral, but it does mean primal. Primacy can be depicted as either lower or higher.
AVI has additional thoughts. I wrote there, "It is a law of nature, whether or not it is not a law of God's, that the sons suffer for the sins of their fathers. No one wants to see innocents suffer, not starvation nor anything else. Yet this war was brought about by an act of blood sacrifice by Hamas on October 7th, 2023; they spilled a very great deal of blood to force this reckoning with Israel. They are the ones who willed this, and that with great intensity."
God may have chosen to answer their prayer. The Aztecs also practiced blood magic; and where is an Aztec today?
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"Hamas", I note is but one letter away from "Haman", the name of an ancient Persian vizier who tried to start a Holocaust--only to end up impaled on the spike he himself had had built for the planned execution of Mordecai, the king's benefactor.
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