Passover is coming, and the warnings we once ignored feel impossible to ignore now.

Twenty-four years ago tonight, families sat down for a Passover Seder at the Park Hotel in Netanya. They weren’t soldiers and they weren’t targets. They were Jews marking a story of survival. A terrorist walked into that room and detonated a bomb, turning a Seder into a massacre and murdering 30 people while wounding more than 140 others, leaving the dining hall in chaos and destruction.

That night was not just an attack. It was a warning about what happens when a system is allowed to glorify violence, reward it, and prepare for it while the outside world continues to call it “peace.” It was a warning that wasn’t fully taken seriously.

And on October 7, we paid for it again.  Not in theory, but in bodies. What had been dismissed as rhetoric became operational. What was assumed to be contained became a massacre.

October 7 was the event. October 8 was the realization. We stopped assuming and started looking at what is actually being built. That shift is not ideological. It is empirical. And now, new evidence suggests it may have come just in........

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