Gaza: The Horror of a New Shoah
The latest macabre show staged yesterday morning by the Islamist Nazis of Hamas brings to mind the dramatic images of the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau opening on January 27, 1945. That day, the Red Army documented with shocking images the conditions of the survivors—emaciated, suffering from hunger, cold, and the violence of the Nazi extermination camp.
Yesterday, the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, which is deeply colluded with the terrorist militia and has long been a key element in relaunching Palestinian propaganda, broadcast into our homes and onto the squares of Israel—where people had gathered to witness the release of the kidnapped deportees—the horror of three emaciated men, reduced to miserable, exhausted, and gaunt bodies. Their suffering faces, sunken eyes, protruding bones, and hollow expressions reflected the agony they endured over these 16 months of captivity, fully aware of the anguish they will continue to carry in their hearts—haunted by the memories of what happened on October 7, when they and their families were massacred by the murderous fury of the new Palestinian SS.
And those numbered sweatshirts in which the terrorists returned them to the world—such an atrocious symbol recalling the tattooed numbers of Jewish prisoners in the extermination camps—conveyed a chillingly clear message to all of humanity.
Hamas officially declares itself the heir to Adolf Hitler’s ideology and actions.
The same deep hatred for the Jewish people, which has nothing to do with the struggle to obtain a state of their own, defend borders, or reclaim land. That is not what is at stake here.
After all, Hamas’s charter explicitly states its intention to eliminate Jews from the face of the earth—along with all other infidels, those who do not submit to Islamic domination of the world.
If Hitler had put in black and white in Mein Kampf his will to exterminate the Jewish people, Hamas has written it into its founding document.
And that slimy, horror-stained hand that the Hamas terrorist so lasciviously, almost conspiratorially, shakes with the Red Cross representative is yet another chilling element, taking us back 80 years. Gaza is like Terezin.
An international organization that should be protecting the rights of those who are forcibly detained, ensuring that the minimum standards of humanity are met, has remained silent and absent for these 500 days regarding the kidnapped Israelis deported to Gaza—just as other NGOs have similarly vanished.
The heartbreaking stories of Ohad, Or, and Ely are captured in that embrace of Or with his daughter—who was orphaned when her mother was murdered on October 7 and separated from her father during these terrible months of captivity.
That embrace which Eli will never again be able to give to his wife and his daughters, aged 13 and 16, brutally killed on that festive October Shabbat.
Both of these men only discovered yesterday afternoon that their loved ones had been murdered—adding even more to their unbearable burden of anguish and pain.
Of the three, only Ohad was able to reunite with his wife, who had also been kidnapped and later released by the Islamist Nazis a few months ago in one of the initial prisoner exchanges.
What future could there possibly be for these men and women who have seen horror, who have been suspended between life and death for a year and four months?
What wounds to the soul will never heal—just as it was for the survivors of the Nazi camps?
And what of the spirit of a people and a nation—Israel—constantly fighting for survival for 80 years, unable to find peace in the absence of a counterpart that truly desires it rather than seeking its outright destruction?
With this reality, if the nations of the world do not take it upon themselves to guarantee a stable and definitive agreement for the region—one that protects Israel from the hatred and extermination intent of its neighbors—then it will be nearly impossible for the current truce to turn into a real peace.
Israel knows how to defend itself and respond on its own, but that is no longer enough.
