by Thadddeus G. McCotter
Israeli authorities brought the foreign press to a massacre site to share the horror
Dateline: Shura Military Base in Ramle, Israel
Joel B. Pollak, Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News, reports that Israel was compelled to take the extraordinary step of bringing the world’s media to view hundreds of the victims of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack:
“This is the gate of hell.” That is how Gilat Bahat, an officer in the Israeli Police, describes the effort to identify the victims of the October 7 attack by the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Israeli authorities brought the foreign press to this site to share the horror of what happened to innocent civilians – and to make sure there is never any doubt, never any attempt to deny it, or to excuse it.
Of the more than 1,400 people murdered, 784 bodies have been delivered to this site, in refrigerated trucks. The bodies are already bagged by first responders; the forensic investigators then have to open the bags to identify the victims.
They dread the moment.
Headline: “Associated Press Won’t Let Reporters Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization”
The Washinton Free Beacon’s Joseph Simonson reports that the Associated Press rejects labeling Hamas a terrorist organization. Instead, the AP defines Hamas as “militants.” “Terms such as Hamas fighters, attackers or combatants are also acceptable depending on the context,” the Associated Press style guide states.
Dateline: Shura Military Base in Ramle, Israel
Pollak’s report continued:
Michal Levin Elad, a 25-year veteran of crime scene investigations for the Israeli police, told reporters: “We have seen children who were decapitated. We have seen children who were dismembered. It’s sights I have never seen before and hope to God I never see again.”
…Other bodies, Bahat said, arrived in parts, having been dismembered. Some bodies were beheaded after being shot. The worst, he said, were the large groups of small bags – children, including infants between three and six months old, who had been shot and burned.
“This is the enemy we are dealing with.”
Headline: “U.N. Chief Guterres Shifts Blame to Israel, Claims Hamas Terror Attack ‘Did Not Happen in a Vacuum’”
Breitbart News’ Katherine Hamilton relates how, when speaking to the UN Security Council about the Israel-Hamas war, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said:
“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.”
“The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” he said, according to a Times of Israel report. “They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”
Guterres conceded that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas,” but added that the terror attack “cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
The U.N. has failed to outright condemn the door-to-door killings executed by Hamas terrorists, and has declined to support Israel’s right to self-defense, instead calling for “humanitarian pauses” in the fight against Hamas.
Dateline: Shura Military Base in Ramle, Israel
Pollak’s report continued:
Dentist Dr. Ilana Engin, who volunteers as a forensic investigator, said, “The horrors of what I saw will be etched in my mind forever.”
Some remains were “heads without bodies that we needed to identify.” Some bodies “ended up being two people hugging together while being burnt.” And some bodies were little more than fragments of bone and ashes.
Headline (Pt. 1): “Majority of Americans Aged 18-24 Say Hamas Massacre of Israeli Civilians ‘Justified’”
Breitbart News’ John Nolte bears the results of a new Harvard Center for American Political Studies-Harris Poll, that asked: “Do you think the Hamas killing of 1200 Israeli civilians [in] Israel can be justified by the grievances of Palestinians or is it not justified?”
A slim majority of those aged 18-24 said it was “justified.” Only 49 percent said the massacre was “not justified.”
The news is not much better among those aged 25-34. Only a slim majority of 52 percent said the massacre of innocent civilians was unjustified, while 48 percent said it was.
Dateline: Shura Military Base in Ramle, Israel
Pollak’s report concluded:
Natah Katz, a commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in charge of forensic investigations, said: “I’ve been trying to shield my family and my friends from everything that has happened over the past two weeks. But the time has come for everybody to understand what happened… These are things that I will never get out of my head. Nobody will.
“These are atrocities on a Holocaust scale.”
Headline (Pt. 2): “Majority of Americans Aged 18-24 Say Hamas Massacre of Israeli Civilians ‘Justified’”
Nolte concluded:
Back to the poll…
Because it gets worse…
Remember how 51 percent of those aged 18-24 believe what happened in Israel on October 7 was justified? Well, 62 percent of that same group say that the attacks were “genocidal,” … and 51 percent said it was still justified.
Among those aged 25-34, 71 percent said the attack was genocidal, and still, 48 percent said it was justified.
Genocide against Jews justified.
An American Greatness contributor, the Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter (M.C., Ret.) represented Michigan’s 11th Congressional district from 2003-2012, and served as Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee. Not a lobbyist, he is a frequent public speaker and moderator for public policy seminars; and a Monday co-host of the “John Batchelor Radio Show,” among sundry media appearances.
Thadddeus G. McCotter
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/28/never-again-3/
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