By Connie Aron Meyer
If you are an intelligent caring American
then you abhor the barbaric attack on
Israeli families asleep in their beds on
October 7th, 2023, and feel for the plight of
the Palestinian people you see abandoned
by their elected government, the terrorist
organization called Hamas, who purposely
uses them as human shields. And you
wonder how we stop the violence and come
together to find common ground for the good
of humanity, stop the hate and find peace.
If you care about the Palestinian people,
then you begin to realize that their greatest
enemy lives among them – in the body of
Hamas, a United States-designated, terrorist
organization and their brothers to the north,
Hezbollah.
But we are constantly bombarded by
conflicting reports in the media and find it
almost impossible to judge – which reports are
based on facts, who is correct and who is to
blame? Until we find those answers it seems
impossible to come together to stop this hate.
Here are some facts both contemporary
and from history that will hopefully set the
stage:
- The goal of radicalized Muslim terrorist
groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and others:
That all people obey strict Sharia Law and are
converted to radicalized severe Muslim beliefs
or they must be slaughtered. - What does the “From the River to the Sea”
actually mean?
Make no mistake, the terrorist organizations
who taught these chants to our children on
our university campuses across our nation are
celebrating their successful infiltration of the
hearts and minds of US university presidents,
administrators, and faculty who are teaching
this hate to our vulnerable students and
children. They are successfully couching this
hate speech and “selling” it as “free speech”-
one of our most celebrated democratic
freedoms in our country.
From the “River to the Sea, Palestine shall be
free!” actually means from the Jordan River
on the eastern flank of Israel to the glittering
Mediterranean Sea on its west, radicalized
Muslims are crying for the slaughter of all
Jews and the complete annihilation of the
democratic state of the sovereign country of
Israel. - This eradication of Israel and all Jews
also translates to the hate they have for
any religion not wedded to their strict
interpretation of Muslim law. As we see the
disgusting spread of hate crimes throughout
the United States, Europe and the rest of the
world, we know, that they hate Jews only a
fraction more than Christians – who both
believe in the same one God: the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. - To see young women on university
campuses worldwide dressed in jeans
and crop tops, members of all minority
communities like the LGBTQ groups
protesting in streets in favor of this radicalized
movement is actually ridiculous. No women,
no members of any LGBTQ community,
no minorities or individuals of any kind are
tolerated under Hamas or Hezbollah’s strict
Sharia Law. Women and minorities have
zero rights and these people holding signs in
protest and screaming in their favor would be
slaughtered on sight. - According to the Washington Institute for
Near East Policy: By the latest count, the
attacks by Hamas—the Arabic acronym for
the Islamic Resistance Movement—killed
more than 1,300 Israelis and third-country
nationals, including at least 29 Americans, in
a country whose population is less than 10
million. In America, that would be equivalent
to killing nearly 40,000 people—13 times
more than the number of Al Qaeda victims
on 9/11. They took 251 innocent hostages
including women, children, and elderly.
There are about 80 hostages left alive in Gaza
that include 15 women and 2 babies under
the age of 5. Hersh Goldberg, a 23 year old
American who grew up in Richmond, VA and
has a hand that was blown off on October 7th
and amputated, is still in captivity. Over 300
young people were slaughtered attending a
peaceful music festival. Five Americans and a
10-month-old baby named Kfir Bibas are still
in captivity. - Facing all this slaughter, very few worldwide
stand for the Jewish people: where is all of the
outrage? Israelis were not killed, they were
not murdered on October 7th – they were
gleefully slaughtered by Hamas terrorists.
For example, I wish I could say the Hamas
terrorist shot, with one of the many bullets he
had draped across his shoulders that Sabbath
morning, the young pregnant Israeli woman
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he pulled from her bed. But that is not what
happened – his fellow terrorist filmed as he
sliced the baby from her stomach, raped her
until her pelvis shattered and then slit her
throat. All of this is proudly captured on film
because this murderer and his family will be
generously rewarded with money and fame for
achieving such a feat – the slaughter of a Jew.
- The Palestinian people in Gaza elected
Hamas to lead them in 2006. Billions of dollars
from many nations, including the US, have
poured into Gaza, little of which has been
used to improve the structure and lives of the
Palestinian people. Compare the city of Tel
Aviv that the Israelis built facing the sea to the
barren streets of Gaza that Hamas left for the
Palestinians to live in. Gaza could have been
built into the Singapore of the Middle East in
the last 20 years. Instead, Hamas took those
Billions and built intricate networks of miles of
tunnels in the sand below and bought weapons
and bombs to hide there. The Hamas leaders
shoved billions in their bank accounts and are
hiding out this war in the Ritz Carlton in Qatar. - Why does Gaza now look like sand and
rubble? Why has this war cost the lives of
so many Palestinian women and children?
Because their Hamas brothers choose to
embed themselves in the residential homes,
schools and hospitals of their people. Israeli
Defense Forces warn civilians of attacks to
come via phone calls, loudspeaker messages,
and dropped leaflets – Hamas terrorists prevent
them from leaving the area. The terrorists wire
explosives in the strategic entrances of their
ramshackle buildings designed to blow up and
pancake into rubble upon Israeli Defense Force
soldiers crossing the threshold to enter.
Israel is such a tiny country – the size of
Rhode Island, you can walk it from border
to border in about two hours. Hard for us to
really imagine. But it is surrounded on every
side by enemies. Not enemies normal to any
other country in the world. Other countries
in times of war want to take over your land,
your resources, and your people. Imagine for
the moment if you can, your families – tiny
children being surrounded by countries full
of human beings who do not just want to
take you over, as is the reason for most wars
among nations. But imagine being completely
surrounded by people who want to wipe you
off the face of the earth forever, in the most
brutal way possible, because of your religion –
because of your belief in One God – the Father
of Abraham, Issac, Sarah, Rebekkah, and even
Jesus – the Old Testament, which is Judaism.
“From the River to the Sea!” they cry. You
see blond hair, blue-eyed college coeds yelling
this, joining pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
They have been convinced, they are still being
convinced, that they are fighting for the rights
of an oppressed Palestinian people. “From
the River to the Sea” means that radical Hamas
Islamists want to wipe off the face of the Earth
“From the River to the Sea” every single Jewish
person not only in Israel but across the world.
And since they hate the freedoms of democracy
and equality and Christianity and women’s
rights and minority rights almost as much as
they hate Jews- they call the United States of
America the Big Satan and Israel the Little
Satan. And they are coming for Christians and
Jews in the USA next. They yell out for jihad
(war against non-Muslims) every chance they
get. We better believe them. If our children and
our freedom of religion are important to us as
Americans, we better believe them, take action
and come together to stop the hate.