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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21954/pogrom-propaganda-hamas-october-7-flotilla

The only just response to such barbarism [Hamas’s October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel] must be unflinching: to rescue the hostages, hold the perpetrators and their sponsors to account, and refuse to normalize propaganda that celebrates murder and rape.

Through its Al-Jazeera television empire, Qatar has promoted violent jihadist activity for Hamas and other Muslim Brotherhood-inspired terrorist groups. In addition, during the 2011 “Arab Spring,” it virtually single-handedly whipped up unlimited jihadist propaganda to oust the Egyptian government.

Continuing its terrorist financing, Qatar seems to be in the process of orchestrating yet another “Arab Spring”, this time to oust the current government of Egypt.

Qatar has already spent “nearly $100 billion” just in the US to gain influence there, according to MSNBC.

For any future in a Gaza that actually hopes for real peace, it is crucial that Qatar be totally out of the picture.

This combination — of staged humanitarian pretenses fronting for violent networks — is the new hybrid threat of our age.

The Global Sumud Flotilla incident also highlights a deeper problem: selective outrage in which states and NGOs deploy the language of human rights in an unequal way.

Democracies and civil-society actors should strip terrorists from their enablers, sanctuaries and financiers. Humanitarian language should not be weaponized to hide terrorism.

For the hostage families still waiting, for the communities still grieving, and for the future of a rules-based international order, the only acceptable response to the October 7 atrocity is the application of justice, the dismantling of the terrorist networks that made it possible, and the refusal to tolerate any narrative that excuses or sanitizes savage, unprovoked cruelty.

On October 7, 2023, an orgy of slaughter and sexual violence was unleashed on Israeli civilians. It was a measured, premeditated pogrom, broadcast with grotesque pride. The world watched as terrorists streamed their atrocities across social media, turning murder and rape into a live propaganda show.

That day was not merely another episode in the long, tragic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was an operational and moral rupture, a mass atrocity whose reverberations continue to shatter families. The event also exposes an international discourse in which moral clarity too often gives way to equivocation.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/10/07/october-7-farage-warns-labour-cynically-ignoring-antisemitism-wave-to-appease-muslim-voters/

The UK’s Labour government has looked the other way on the “wave of antisemitism that has swept across Britain” because it made a “cynical electoral calculation” to appease Muslim voters, Nigel Farage said.

Brexit pioneer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has argued that on the anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attacks, the United Kingdom should heed the “wake-up call” of the suspected terrorist attack against a synagogue in England last week by a Syrian migrant.

Writing for The Jewish Chronicle on Tuesday, Mr Farage said the Jewish community “has contributed immensely to our Judeo-Christian culture, but now finds itself living in fear” from “a wave of antisemitism” in Britain that has become “normalised”. The British government rewarded Hamas for the October 7 terror attacks in 2023 by pre-emptively recognising a Palestinian state last month, he further warned.

https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-the-war-israel-wonand?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Two years after October 7, Israel has defeated its enemies. The West is still surrendering to them.

Over the past two years of war in the Middle East, I have often quoted the famous Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz. Among his most famous insights about the art of war was that an army should attack its opponent at its opponent’s center of gravity. On October 7, 2023, it appeared to me that Hamas had done what terrorist groups are so good at doing, which is to add a type of jujitsu into the art of war.

Today you do not attack your enemy at their center of gravity because if you do, in this non-Napoleonic era, you are likely to lose. Instead you try to unsettle your enemy’s advantages by tackling them at their weakest points—by hitting them at their most vulnerable place, throwing them off balance. That is what Hamas terrorists did two years ago this morning when they struck not the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or the nuclear plant at Dimona, but peaceful kibbutzim and a dance party.

It has been my privilege during the past two years to spend a lot of my time with the people of Israel and with Jewish communities around the world. That has, among other things, given me the opportunity to rethink, listen to other voices, and make alterations or refinements to points I have tried to make. One such example came recently, after a woman who had read my book on this conflict reacted to my Clausewitz point. “You know, I think you’re wrong,” she said. “I think they did hit us in our center of gravity that day. Not in the military sense but in our soul.” And I think she was right.

Two years on from that day, similar attacks have happened again and again. When a young couple were shot to death on the streets of Washington, D.C., in May by a man shouting “Free Palestine,” the media focused on the fact that the two—Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky—happened to be staffers at the Israeli embassy. The more salient point was that it could have been anyone who had been exiting the event they had been at. The event was being held at the Capital Jewish Museum. In Boulder, a Holocaust survivor was burned by an assailant with a flamethrower at a rally to secure the release of hostages. In April, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s home was firebombed by a suspect motivated, he said, by what Shapiro wanted “to do to the Palestinian people.”

Countries that used to be seen as safe refuges for Jews—Australia, Canada—now see routine shootings and firebombings at yeshivas and synagogues, the vandalizing of Jewish-owned businesses, and repeated efforts to attack not the hardest possible targets but the softest and often the most meaningful ones.