There is no question as to which side has moral clarity

At Shura Army Base in Israel, on the outskirts of the central Israeli city of Ramle, the bodies and hacked-off body parts are stacked up and continue to pile higher this week, as the slaughtered from southern Israel keep arriving in refrigerator trucks. Many, if not most of the bodies are hard to identify on sight as they have been burned or otherwise disfigured or dismembered. 

Thankfully, DNA helps the process, but it's time consuming and the Jewish dead are supposed to be buried within a day whenever possible.

Israeli Defense Force personnel and volunteers along with religious authorities officiate the delicate process. In many respects, what they see is worse than ISIS and is reminiscent of the Holocaust, which for the Jews, whose country grew out of the atrocities of Nazi Germany, is a very strong statement.

Col. Rabbi Haim Weisberg, head of IDF's rabbinic division, spoke at an interview: "During a war, each side tries to make a convincing argument that they are right but these kinds of atrocities we have not seen since the days of the Nazis."

"They went from house to house burning family after family," he said. "We are seeing trucks still arriving filled with body bags that contain whole families – grandparents, mothers, fathers, and even little children are being brought down from the trucks."

"In normal times, the rabbis on this base deal with dead soldiers, but this time it is abnormal," said Weisberg of the base that is just one among several involved in the identification process.

"Here we have identified hundreds of bodies and there are still many more waiting to be examined," he said.

Perhaps the most barbaric public display by Hamas was that of Shani Louk, a young Israeli-German woman who was at the desert music festival and whose body was paraded in a truck through Gaza as the Hamassholes surrounding her shouted "Allahu akbar" or "Allah is greater."

Hamas had her family believe she was still alive in Gaza somewhere and was suffering from a "severe head injury." 

It turns out that this 'head injury' was a Hamas joke, as her skull was eventually discovered in Gaza by the IDF. It is believed she was tortured and beheaded.

One of the female volunteers spoke about the burial procedures. 

"They wanted to have women who could deal with the burial and the identification procedure so that it wouldn't fall on young male soldiers and in order to protect the privacy of young women," she said, but who could not be named due to military guidelines.

She explained that the group was specially trained by the army for a mass casualty event, but it was not until Oct. 7 that they were called up for service. Since then, she said, the unit has been working around the clock.

"I’ve seen things that no one should ever see," she said, describing how many of the dead women arrived still wearing their pajamas, their heads blown off and some booby-trapped with grenades.

"We saw evidence of rape," she added. "Pelvises were broken, and it probably takes a lot to break a pelvis… and this was also among grandmothers down to small children. These are things we saw with our own eyes."

Anyone who stands with this evil group of human excrement is either clueless, evil, or a member of the Squad; but I repeat myself.

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Naive couple bike near ISIS territory to prove 'humans are kind'--they were proven wrong

A couple of naive, idealistic 29-year-old millennials, quit their office jobs in Washington, DC, unchained their bikes and went on a cycling trip around the world. Their goal was to prove that: "Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans."

They were proven wrong.

Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan had to prove that evil doesn't really exist. Austin, a vegan, worked for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Geoghegan, a vegetarian worked for Georgetown University admissions office. They realized that they were wasting their lives working for a living and decided to go for a bike ride and concurrently prove that people are good and ISIS is not a real danger if you have a good heart and don't eat animals.

Unfortunately, their theory was disproven--they were killed by ISIS last month.

Before he quit his job and then taking the unwitting suicidal bike trip, Austin blogged: "I've grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige. I've missed too many sunsets while my back was turned. Too many thunderstorms went unwatched, too many gentle breezes unnoticed."

Very heavy, man.

The couple went public on Instagram to document their totally cool journey on a joint blog. The New York Times said that they shared "the openheartedness they wanted to embody and the acts of kindness reciprocated by strangers."

"You read the papers and you're led to believe that the world is a big, scary place," Austin wrote before being murdered by ISIS along with his partner and another couple on bikes.

"People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil."

Yes, some people are bad and evil and Austin and Geoghegan learned that the hard way.

"I don't buy it," Austin said. "Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own. ...By and large, humans are kind. [Yes, just not ISIS humans]. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind."

And that's why Austin and Lauren deserve to be nominated for the Darwin Awards.

When the couple got to Tajikistan, riding their bikes through the country on July 29th, a car filled with jihadis rammed them. Five Muslim men got out of the car and stabbed the couple to death along with two other idealists, one from Switzerland and the other from the Netherlands.

They were not killed with kindness.

Two days after the murders, ISIS released a video showing the same group of jihadis sitting in front of an ISIS flag as they looked into the camera and vowed to kill "disbelievers." Yes, the religion of tolerance will kill you if you don't believe in Allah and Mo, the prophet of Islam.

It's really very sad but very avoidable.

You don't need to be a genius to know that ISIS territory is dangerous to all non-ISIS members, even Muslims who aren't Islamic enough. But being a progressive, thinking that human nature is all roses and unicorn farts will get you killed if you go biking or hiking in many lands I call the "Stans" and the "Bhad-lands."

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