Revenge vs retribution: The case of the Bibas family.

‘Sorry, Shiri, Ariel and Kfir that no one was to protect you’, this was the sense of sorrow among the ten of thousands of Israelis, who were lining the roads, highways and overpasses of the sixty kilometers trip of the abducted and brutally murdered by Hamas members of Bibas family, from the funeral home in Rishon Letzion to the Tsoher Cemetary. The mother Shiri and her children, Ariel and Kfir were buried in one casket unseparated for eternity. We can see in a photo how Shiri was embracing her boys, Ariel and Kfir, in a protective hug, which only can be done by the carrying and worried parent. Shiri, certainly, was in distress and afraid. She and her children were dragged and abducted to Gaza by marauding crowd of Hamas terrorists. The family was kidnapped from the home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2923. The father of the children, Yarden Bibas, was fighting to prevent the Hamas terrorists to take his family to Gaza but they overpower him there were too many of them. The children, Ariel a four years toddler, and Kfir, a baby of nine months at the time of the capture, were clutching to Shiri’s chest.

The phrase ‘Sorry, Shiri, Ariel and Kfir that no one was there to protect you’ applies not only to Israelis but to the Jews all over the world. The October 7, 2023, the brutal invasion by Hamas shattered the sense of security of Israelis and, at the same time, it has caused a tsunami of hatred toward Jewish people everywhere. The pro-Hamas........

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