PAUL EDWARDS—Having run the great, open-air prison of Gaza for so long with relatively little difficulty, Zionists had relaxed into their role as brutal jailers, and convinced themselves that Palestinians had finally accepted their status as prostrate prisoners, so the breakout of 10/7 last year came as a violent shock to them.
Injuries that strike hard at our self-esteem hurt worst, and the Hamas attack did that. It exposed to the world the astounding degree of arrogant inhumanity that is the core characteristic of Nazi Israel, in both the fact that it could not prevent it, and the decision to commit genocide against a whole people in revenge.