What you might not know about Hamas

Hamas is a terrorist organization that came into being in 1987. Its reason for existence, as delineated in its charter, is to destroy Israel and annihilate the Jews within, and perhaps globally one day. 

They target not only soldiers, but civilians, including women, children, babies and the elderly Their latest attack on Saturday, October 7th, almost exclusively targeted civilians and they took over 100 hostages, including a 6-month-old baby and its mother.

Regarding some of the history of this terrorist organization, in 1967, Israel took back control of the Gaza Strip from Egypt who had occupied the region from 1949 until that year. They built new infrastructure and improved the agricultural landscape.

In 2005 came what was known as "The Second Intifada" in which over 1,000 Israelis were killed in a span of four and a half years. At that point, Israel decided to pull out of Gaza completely, both with their military and civilians who lived there. Twenty thousand Israeli soldiers and eight thousand civilians departed from the region, leaving behind fertile land, greenhouses and modern infrastructure, giving the Gazan Muslims a desert oasis of sorts.

But Hamas didn't want to do anything with the land "the Zionists" left behind. They were more interested in what was on the other side of the Gaza Strip and wanted to conquer it and annihilate those living there. The greenhouses were destroyed, and Hamas took over so called Palestine, a country that never existed, has no flag, no currency, but has an abundance of hatred for Jewish people.

Saturday was Israel's 911, not its Pearl Harbor. The latter involved a military attack while Saturday's attack was primarily aimed at civilians, something Jews have never done, (although they get blamed for the same acts without a shred of evidence).

More than 700 Israelis were slaughtered on Saturday, their Sabbath, and their holiday of Simchat Torah, a day that's supposed to be a happy event. In fact, perhaps a thousand people were celebrating the day at a rave when Hamas attacked them, killing hundreds as they tried to escape the carnage. 

A woman who Hamas murdered thinking she was an Israeli but was actually a German tourist. They mutilated her and paraded her body along the streets of Gaza. In other attacks, women were murdered and in some cases their corpses raped by Hamas Islamists. 

On day one of this war, a war that Hamas started but Israel will finish, more than 700 Israelis were killed. To put that in perspective, if one considers the size of Israel and its population, the per capita death toll had it been the United States would translate to about 45,000 Americans! The injuries at this time have been around 2,200 with 345 of them critical, so the death toll is likely to climb.

Do not compare Israel to Hamas or even the Palestinian Authority. The IDF does not mutilate dead bodies--Hamas does. The IDF doesn't torture prisoners. Hamas does. But just wait and watch how the left is going to blame Israel as equally guilty as Hamas once the IDF goes after the them. The left hates it when the Jews refuse to allow themselves to be victimized.

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