The atrocities that took place last week in the Sweida province of Syria have turned the insides of every civilized person. This is animalistic barbarity, a sick, satanic evil that does not spare the elderly, women, and children. The repeated outbursts of this murderous lust indicate that we are dealing with a culture (or rather a subculture) in which such cruel acts are considered legitimate and acceptable.
The September 11 attacks in the United States, twenty-four years ago, confronted the world with the horrific murderous lust of radical Islam. The scope of the phenomenon had not yet been grasped. There was a tendency to think that it was the work of extremist lunatics.
The years that have passed have proven that this was only the tip of a huge iceberg, of monstrous proportions.
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Who were they quick to condemn?
Since then, the world has tasted the benefits of radical Islam, from the horrific cruelty of ISIS in its wars with its own people, to the mass murder attacks in European cities. The expressions of joy on social media have proven the extent of support for these acts, and the fact that we are not dealing with a handful of madmen, but with an entire culture that fosters killing and murder, and in the name of religion!
We have experienced this evil throughout the years, during which the terrorists did not commit any cruel act, as long as they harmed Jews. From time to time we are shocked by particularly unusual events, such as the murder of a pregnant woman traveling to give birth, or the massacre of the Fogel family during a peaceful Shabbat dinner at their home.
Then we received the outbreak of satanic evil in its entirety on Simchat Torah last year, with all the monstrous acts that these scum of humanity committed in the communities surrounding Gaza, to the sound of the cheers of their brothers who danced for joy and were overcome with happiness. It is what we said - a sick and subhuman culture.
One would expect that campuses around the world would now be holding demonstrations in support of the Druze being slaughtered in Syria, but of course this was said with irony. Because we no longer have expectations from the hypocritical world, which knows how to attack us for our most cautious and moral war on those who seek our lives, and stands indifferent in the face of atrocities against other human beings.
Oh, yes, there were those who were quick to condemn us for extending aid to the Druze who are fighting for their lives...
No mercy
After the terrible Holocaust, it was clear that we had to wage a full-scale war against the Nazis and their supporters, as the world could not tolerate such evil. We pursued the murderers to all corners of the globe, in order to bring them to justice and send a clear message to the entire world that there was no room for tolerance for this murderous lust.
Even after the murderous attack on Simchat Torah, it was clear to every Jew that this was exactly what we had to do to the new Nazis and their helpers.
Unfortunately, as the days passed, compassionate voices began to be heard for the supposedly 'uninvolved' 'citizens.' They forgot that most of them shared the same lust for murder, and that they were eager to sacrifice their own sons on the altar of their thirst for Jewish blood.
Indeed, we are merciful, merciful people, but in the face of this lust for murder, it is our duty to seal our hearts and destroy all Hamas-ISIS terrorists, just as we did with the Nazi monsters. Only then can we hope to live in a better world, where death is not sanctified, but life.
