This is a sad day. And while fully expecting the delivery by the Hamas monsters of the Bibas’ family in body bags, the news still carries a sickening kind of shock that settles in my gut like a bad case of food poisoning.
Despite humanitarian requests from the International Red Cross for a respectful process, live footage showed crowds of Palestinians waiting near the stage, as music blared in the background. Parked nearby were white pickup trucks, some of them draped in Hamas flags, reminiscent of the ones driven into Israel by invading Hamas terrorists on October 7. A Palestinian terrorist responsible for killing dozens of Israelis who was released from prison just days ago was seen in media footage as a guest of honor at the Hamas handover. Others could be seen off to one side hosting what appeared to be a makeshift weapons show for children and teens, allowing them to hold their guns and pose for photos and videos.
Sick fucks. What kind of monsters kidnap a 9 month old, a 4 year old, their mother and an 83 year old man dedicated to peace and personally responsible for transporting sick Palestinians to Israeli hospitals? Sick fucks, that’s who.
There is no “what aboutism” here. This kind of degeneracy has no equivalence. At last year’s Oscars, a line of “pro-Palestine” stars—Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish, Ava DuVernay, and others—wore a pin of a red right hand meant to valorize the murderers of Jews. In a just world, all these “celebrities” would instead use their fame and time on the red carpet to do anything, anything at all, to express their sympathy for the Bibas and their plight, NOT their murdering kidnappers. And in a just world, our newspaper of record, The New York Times, would not exercise the kind of journalistic gymnastics that leads to this extremely inaccurate claim in their lead story on this horrible hostage handover:
In exchange for the bodies, Israel is expected to free women and minors from Gaza who were detained during the war, generally without formal charges.
With apologies to Dana Horn, here we are once again, writing about dead Jews. For me, for most Israelis, and for most of the Jewish community, the Bibas family became a symbol of just how nasty and inhuman are Hamas and their followers. Yet in a just world, their fate should have been a public outcry by the entire western world. In such a world, the faces of the Bibas children would be plastered everywhere at all times. But in the world in which we live, by contrast, posters with those faces get torn down from bulletin boards. In the kind of world we hope to deserve to inhabit, no children’s charity or NGO would go a day without drawing attention to Kfir and Ariel and the monsters who stole them. Instead, we get a world where our feeds are filled with more news of global anti-semitism, and Hamas apologists. If the post-Second World War international order and human rights were built on the backs of dead Jews, whom the world refused to save from being marched into death camps, it was dealt a fatal blow defending Hamas, the group that just made a celebratory spectacle of returning the bodies of dead Jews.
I don’t know how to end this post on a positive note. Perhaps this message from one of my favorite Jews will suffice.
Peace be with you all.
Brad out.
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