One year ago today, the world turned upside down.
It’s approximately 6:30 a.m. Israel Standard Time, October 7, 2023. Air raid sirens go off as Hamas fires hundreds of rockets into the state of Israel. Israelis have gotten used to the occasional spate of rockets from the Gaza Strip ever since Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 in a vain attempt to disengage from the problem of policing the area.
The eliminationist terror group Hamas, whose charter explicitly calls for the death of Jews and the extermination of Israel, was elected in 2006. Since then, Hamas has spent billions of dollars building hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels below civilian areas. They’ve also sporadically fired rockets over the border, necessitating that hundreds of thousands of Israelis go underground or to their safe rooms.
That is precisely what Hamas is counting on.
At the same time, the rockets are…
