There are moments in history so horrifying that language itself begins to fail.

After reading the newly released report documenting the atrocities committed on October 7, I found myself unable to speak. Not because there was nothing to say, but because the magnitude of the cruelty almost closes the throat. It is the kind of grief that leaves a person staring into silence, wanting to scream while no sound comes out.

Even after October 7, even after everything we already knew, I do not believe most of us fully understood the depth of the barbarism that took place that day. Reading these testimonies feels, in and of itself, like a form of torture. To know that fellow human beings — women, men, children, the elderly — were subjected to such calculated humiliation, violence, and terror is almost impossible for the human mind to process.

What emerges from these accounts is not merely violence. It is depravity weaponized.

And perhaps that is why, immediately after October 7, so many Jews instinctively invoked the name Amalek.

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