Within minutes of Hamas jihadists breaching the Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, and commencing the largest slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Western leftists and other defenders of the genocidal Palestinian-Arab cause rallied around a talking point: “This did not occur in a vacuum.”
The claim—blithely offered by armchair revolutionaries without even acknowledging the many hundreds of butchered babies, sadistically tortured families, raped women, and young music festivalgoers taken hostage—was that Israel had somehow impelled the horrific rampage on its own civilians.
Those with a functioning moral compass recognize this as obvious terrorist apologia.
Reflecting back one year later on the Hamas massacre and the current Middle East imbroglio, in which Israel is now fighting a seven-front war, however, I wonder whether the terrorist apologists…
