Then it hits you like a sledge-hammer: These people really are monsters.
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people → hit → hammer
Not so long ago, calling them antisemites would have been a sufficiently complete description of their sickness.
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calling → call → sickness
But over the last three years, their ilk has crossed that line so many times that the word no longer comes close to capturing the full extent of their venality.
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word → cross → venality
And now they are planning a New York City protest on Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists.
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they → plan → terrorists
For a fleeting second, I had foolishly dared to hope the protest would be a denunciation of the beasts who carried out the slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians.
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most → dare → them
Women and children were raped, murdered and mutilated in a frenzy of satanic bloodlust.
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Women → rap → bloodlust
Hostages, some seriously injured, were stolen from their homes and taken to the hellholes of Gaza — after being paraded publicly through the streets where Palestinian civilians, including children, celebrated the orgy of Jewish blood.
And now those horrors are to be celebrated again in an event I never considered to be within the realm of possibility.
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I → injure → possibility
It is a plan to praise and glorify the deadliest day for Jews since the end of the Holocaust.
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It → praise → Holocaust
Groups calling themselves “anti-Zionists” say they will mark the event with rallies in Gotham and many other cities around the world.
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they → call → world
In effect, they aim to turn Oct. 7 into an international day of joyful celebration of the butchers who carried out the initial attack, and hail their ultimate cause of eliminating the Jewish state.
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who → aim → state
“Glory to the martyrs, victory to the resistance,” say some flyers for the rallies.
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flyers → say → rallies
Some display a figure wearing a keffiyeh and an upside-down triangle, a symbol often used to signify Hamas.
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Some → display → Hamas
Upside down certainly fits the logic of condemning Israel on the anniversary of Oct. 7, when it dared to defend itself and later respond with a military invasion of Gaza.
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it → fit → Gaza
Calling that response “genocide” doesn’t make it true, as if Israel’s self-defense of its territory and people is somehow proof of a secret plan to occupy Gaza and slaughter the inhabitants.
If that were the goal, Israel could have achieved it at almost any time over the last two decades had it wanted to.
But acknowledging its restraint would also require an explanation for Israel’s complete and voluntary withdrawal of all its troops and more than 20,000 citizens from Gaza in 2005, under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Successful Israeli farms and high-tech greenhouses were purchased by some American Jews, including James Wolfensohn and Mort Zuckerman, for millions of dollars and transferred to Palestinian ownership.
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farms → call → ownership
But instead of being put to use to feed Gaza and make money on exports, the greenhouses were dismantled and demolished.
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greenhouses → put → exports
Soon after the Israeli withdrawal, the Bush administration foolishly demanded that Palestinians hold an election.
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Palestinians → demand → election
Hamas, behind the power of the gun and its willingness to use it, quickly captured control over the corrupt Palestinian Authority.
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Hamas → use → Authority
It now ruled over a true Palestinian state, which it turned into a terror state.
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it → rule → state
Eliminating Israel was the stated reason for Hamas’ founding, and its gunmen were the law of the land and in a position to attack Israel, which it did repeatedly even before the slaughter of 2023.
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it → eliminate → 2023
The gangster government hijacked much of the international aid supposedly meant to establish a modern Palestinian homeland.
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government → hijack → homeland
Much of that aid, including millions in cash, was siphoned from the public and used to prepare for war against Israel.
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Much → include → Israel
Miles of pipes designed to carry water and sewage were converted to rocket launchers, as other building materials were diverted to the sprawling warren of tunnels where Hamas soldiers trained and hid.
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soldiers → design → tunnels
Many of the 251 hostages taken from Israel three years ago, including children, were also held in the tunnels, and some were tortured and murdered there.
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some → take → tunnels
All the good will and cash from around the world and region had no effect except to help Hamas prepare for its big invasion.
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Hamas → have → invasion
Even now, the fiendish gangsters, after promising to disarm under the terms of President Trump’s widely endorsed Gaza Peace Plan, have refused to do so.
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gangsters → promise → Plan
Until they do, international plans for peacekeeping and reconstruction are stalled.
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plans → do → peacekeeping
Yet such facts have no relevance to the twisted organizers who are using the third anniversary to claim that “resistance against imperialism changed the fate of our world forever.”
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resistance → have → world
As many as 25 activist groups are said to be behind the New York plan, including Students for Justice in Palestine, Within Our Lifetime and others.
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groups → say → Lifetime
Meanwhile, Israeli government officials have found some 262 events are scheduled for Wednesday in 37 countries.
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events → find → countries
The Jerusalem Post reports that 45 are to be held in the US, 40 in Spain, 21 in Australia, 19 in the United Kingdom, 16 in Italy, 14 in both Germany and Canada, 10 in France and eight in the Netherlands.
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45 → report → Netherlands
Significant numbers of the events are planned to take place close to offices of the Israeli government, including embassies and consulates, leading to concerns about possible violence.
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numbers → plan → violence
Some of the groups behind the events are so are far off the deep end that they charge Mayor Mamdani with not being sufficiently committed to the elimination of Israel.
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they → charge → Israel
A coalition of radicals wrote a statement accusing him of abandoning their cause, saying in part: “The mayor’s claim of solidarity with the Palestinian people is meaningless when it is followed by no action and capitulation to Zionist pressure.”
They cite as an example his failure to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli leader came for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.
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leader → write → Assembly
In fact, Mamdani wanted to have the NYPD arrest Netanyahu for “war crimes” in Gaza, but the US doesn’t recognize the International Criminal Court.
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US → want → Court
That meant the court’s warrant for his arrest could not be executed on American soil.
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No sane person would conclude that is proof Mamdani has changed his stripes.
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Mamdani → conclude → stripes
Especially when he still refuses to say Israel has the right to exist as the Jewish homeland, and was the first mayor in six decades to skip the annual Salute to Israel parade last May.
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Still radical
Additionally, his new plan supposedly aimed to combat antisemitism helps fund some groups that have anti-Israel histories.
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that → aim → histories
As The Post reports, one suspicious grant is the $6.4 million the mayor is sending to Partners Against the Hate (PATH), doubling last year’s public funding for the program.
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mayor → report → program
It counts among its partners the anti-Israel Arab-American Association of New York.
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It → count → York
…and 4 more, not listed.
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