On October 7, 2023, Saturday morning, thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel killing at least 1000 citizens with the count ongoing. The terrorists moved from house to house and slaughtered entire families, kidnapping more than 130 citizens including babies, children, mothers, elderly, and young women to Gaza. 

There are moments in this life, and I mean this literally, when pure unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world. The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend. The bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas — a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews. This was an act of sheer evil. More than 1,000 civilians were slaughtered — not just killed, slaughtered — in Israel. Among them, at least 14 American citizens were killed. Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children.

Stomach-turning reports of babies being killed. Entire families slain. Young people were massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace — to celebrate peace. Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies. Families hid their fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet to avoid drawing attention…Holocaust survivors abducted and held hostage — hostages whom Hamas has now threatened to execute in violation of every code of human morality. It’s abhorrent.  

The brutality of Hamas — this bloodthirstiness — brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS. 

This is terrorism.

– US President, Mr. Joe Biden

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