Aim, fire, kill a Jew, reload… How to turn back the rising tide of murderous inhumanity |
Aim, fire, kill a Jew, reload. Aim, fire, kill a Jew, reload. Aim, fire, kill a Jew, reload…
The efficiency is striking, horrific. A man in black, on a bridge at Bondi Beach, his paternal partner at his side, gunning down defenseless men, women and children. Ruthless. Focused. Utterly indifferent to the inhumanity he is perpetrating.
People who had gathered with joy in their hearts, to spread the Hanukkah light of appreciation for the divine gift of life, murdered en masse by an emissary of darkness.
If he could have, he would have killed them all. Just like Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.
As the Hamas Charter quotes the Prophet Muhammad as instructing: “The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'”
Aim, fire, kill a Jew, reload.
How to stop it?
How to turn back the rising tide of murderous inhumanity, the surging effort these past 26 months to destroy not only the Jewish state — as Hamas intended on October 7, and most certainly still intends — but the Jewish people?
To demonize, incite against, and dehumanize us. And then to kill us.
In our beds in our homeland. At our places of worship. When we gather indoors in ostensible security.
And, now, as in Sydney on Sunday, to kill us when we dare to come out and gather in public in the open air.
How to stop it?
By bringing the resolute protection of life, the defense and dissemination of fundamental humanity, to bear upon the entire process that carried that efficient killer on the bridge from birth to mass murder.
What does that require in practice? A global effort, advanced by the leaders of countries that truly value life.
It requires the insistent championing and entrenching of humane values from childhood. By requiring........