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Oct. 7 exposed terrifying American truths — and launched a righteous reckoning

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The attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, unfurled 5,678 miles from America’s shores; they impacted just a handful of American citizens.

Yet they may prove to be, in retrospect, one of the more significant events in our nation’s recent history.

Because that’s the day when many Americans woke up and realized, to our absolute horror, that we were living in a very different country than the one we had imagined.

Before Israelis could even bury their 1,200 dead or attempt to rescue 240 hostages, before the IDF launched its operation in Gaza, thousands of our fellow Americans took to the streets — not to mourn the victims, but to cheer for their executioners.

On college campuses, students gleefully waved the banners of Hamas and Hezbollah, terror groups with a long and benighted tradition of murdering Americans as well as Israelis, and took pleasure in pummeling and harassing their Jewish classmates.

In print and on the air, pundits indulged in preposterous conspiracy theories, including logic-defying tales of Israelis allegedly training dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.

Oct. 7 sadly taught Jews that we stand alone

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