“Oct 7 2023”

“God Forbid.”

Shortly after sunrise on the morning of Saturday 7 October, a message pings on 200 phones of the Be’eri mothers’ WhatsApp group.

Minutes later another message lands: “We have a terrorist on the stairs. Call someone.”

Hamas gunmen had just begun a day-long rampage through this kibbutz in southern Israel, and over the next 20 hours the women channelled their horror, disbelief and reassurances through the chat – as militants roamed the neighbourhood shooting residents dead and setting fire to homes.

An Upper East Side mom whose daughter was one of 260 people slaughtered by Hamas at a music festival begged Americans who back the terror group’s cause to reconsider.

Hannie Ricardo’s daughter Oriya was gunned down at the Tribe of Nova event, where the terrorists shot into the fleeing crowd, lobbed grenades at concertgoers and took hostages.

First there was Holocaust denial – now there’s a campaign to deny the genocide by Hamas in the ‘second Holocaust.’

While the world may have said ‘never again,’ the sad truth is it is happening again. Slaughter on a massive scale in a savage terror attack that killed more than 1,200 in Israel is unmistakable and unthinkable in its evil.

Pic above -So far the only local Hamas Rally is scheduled for Occupied Mississauga this afternoon.

Pro-Palestinian march draws thousands in London with protests across UK

Pro-Palestinian protests are taking place across the UK, including in London and Manchester.

In London thousands of people gathered outside the BBC’s New Broadcasting House and more than 1,000 police officers have been deployed.

Police warned that anyone showing support for Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, or deviating from the route, could face arrest.

It comes a week after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel.

🇬🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱‼️🚨 Massive pro Palestine protests in London.
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— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 14, 2023

Be thankful we are not yet Europe.

On Monday evening, the prime minister and the leader of the Official Opposition shared the stage at a Jewish community centre in Ottawa, where they delivered an unequivocal condemnation of the atrocities committed by Hamas gunmen against men, women and children in southern Israel last weekend.

By the time they spoke, Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre also had both condemned the pro-Hamas sentiment that reportedly was being expressed at some protests and rallies across the country.

That unanimity sent an important signal, even if differences inevitably were going to emerge. Partisanship is never set aside for long. And war is neither easy nor simple.

This is the CBC prepping the public for the fact Justin Trudeau will be kissing Hamas ass for votes before you know it.

“We will not accept the heinous attacks against Israel being celebrated here on our streets,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in his address to the federal parliament, the Bundestag on Thursday. In Berlin, members of the group Samidoun, which describes itself as a Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, had celebrated the Hamas attack against Israel — in which hundreds of Israeli civilians were killed — by handing out sweets.

The left across the West has a Hamas problem.

In their binary worldview of oppressors versus oppressed, many self-proclaimed progressives continued to refuse to call the Iran-backed militia that controls Gaza a terrorist organization – even in the wake of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust by Hamas militants who, on Oct. 7, massacred hundreds of Israeli civilians and boasted of their gruesome deeds on social media.

To one side, Columbia students stood silently, wrapped in the blue and white of Israel as they gripped pictures of the murdered and abducted. Across the grass and brick divide, a slightly larger cohort of students chanted “Free, free Palestine.”

The faultline between the two ran along the claim by each that the other was pursuing a kind of bloodlust – a charge that has divided university campuses across America in the wake of the bloody Hamas attack on Israeli communities and Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza.

A terrorist group’s savage attack reflects dangerous changes in the world

On the morning of October 7, a barbarian horde of Hamas terrorists cascaded into Israel from the Gaza Strip determined to commit as many atrocities against Israelis as possible. What followed was a grotesque attack on civilization itself — the most audacious act of genocidal violence against Jews since the Holocaust.

Emmanuel Macron addressed France on television on Thursday evening. It was an opportunity for the president to reiterate his support for Israel in its war against Hamas, but also to call for his country to remain united.

As Macron spoke to the nation, police in Paris were using tear gas and water cannons to disperse a pro-Hamas demonstration. Meanwhile, some 10,000 police in France have been deployed to stand guard outside Jewish schools and places of worship.

The Israel-Palestine conflict has dominated the news since Hamas terrorists killed and kidnapped hundreds of Israeli civilians on October 7.

How does this terrible conflict relate to Catholic prophecy? Could this be the start of a third world war? To discuss these questions, lay theologian Xavier Ayral returned to The John-Henry Westen Show this week.

Well this is something different.

It was 6.30am, in the half-light of Israel’s early morning, when Yonatan Shamriz’s wife, Natali, called out to him that she had heard the sound of rockets overhead. In the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, they were accustomed to rockets. Aza is a Hebrew spelling of Gaza, nkly three miles away: once an easy drive away for kebabs by the beach but now another world, enclosed and hostile.

In the best of times the residents tried to live ordinary lives, but the tell-tales signs were always there of a community that was under attack.

Bomb shelters, brightly painted so as not to frighten the children, were strategically located among its rows of bungalows.

America’s new world order has empowered its enemies

Israel’s forces are massed at the border awaiting orders to launch a “full offensive” against Gaza. For days, airstrikes and artillery have been bombarding the Gaza statelet where Hamas has its warfighting machinery honeycombed inside city blocks. “You will have the ability to change the reality here,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told the waiting Israeli soldiers on Tuesday. “Gaza will never go back to what it was.”

So it’s come to this. Israel has felt moved to release images of the bloodied and charred corpses of babies – of murdered infants – to try to convince a cynical online world that even its most defenceless, tiny citizens were among the 1,300 people killed by Hamas last weekend.

Last night, Israel’s official social-media accounts posted three images. One picture shows a slain baby, his or her face blurred, covered in blood in an open body bag. Another two pictures show pint-sized corpses, burned beyond recognition. ‘This is the most difficult image we’ve ever posted. As we are writing this we are shaking’, said the text accompanying one image. ‘We went back and forth about posting this, but we need each and every one of you to know. This happened.’

All across the West, there is no shortage of people blaming the horrors in Israel on Israel itself — and openly supporting the perpetrators.

The head of policy at the Community Security Trust, which monitors hate crimes committed against British Jews, has said: ‘Anti-Semites are getting excited by the sight of dead Jews . . . Hamas murdering Israeli civilians has exhilarated them . . . We’ve had reports of people driving past synagogues shouting ‘Kill the Jews’.’

Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain are currently three times higher than they were this time last year, the charity adds.