Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? That is what Hamas has accomplished. The day after a genocidal attack on Israeli civilians, they launched a propaganda campaign describing themselves as victims of Israeli genocide, and the whole world is rushing to embrace them, which both Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin regard as a reward for terrorism. Canada, Australia, UK, France, Norway, Spain, Portugal, and other European nations are joining Latin America, Asia, and Africa in recognizing a nonexistent Palestinian state that controls no territory, is ruled by terrorist entities, and prefers living off Western largesse to doing the hard work of nation building, as evidenced by the immediate destruction of the greenhouses the Israelis left for them when they totally evacuated Gaza in 2005. (So what occupation are Israel’s detractors referring to?) Hamas now refers to a Palestinian state as “the fruits of October 7.”

Why has such an atrocity produced such a success? Tom Lehrer’s satirical song “National Brotherhood Week” says it all:

“Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,

And the Catholics hate the Protestants,

And the Moslems hate the Hindus,

And everyone hates the Jews.”

To illustrate how much the world hates Jews, consider the following excerpt from Uri Kaufman’s book American Intifada about just what they are celebrating:

“Across southern Israel, Hamas terrorists carried out the largest massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust. An estimated 1,163 people were killed, thousands were wounded, and 251 were taken hostage. At least 347 of the dead were young people murdered at a nearby music........

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