Washington Examiner / Magazine
October 17, 2023 Issue
October 17, 2023 Print Edition
Cover Story
A clarifying moment for the West
“In the event of an air-raid siren during the ceremony,” we were told earlier this week, at the second funeral we’d attended in as many days for victims of Hamas’s brutal assault, “spread out, lie on the ground, and cover your heads.” It was reasonable to expect the genocidal regime to shoot missiles at funeral attendees, given the barbarous attack its terrorists had inflicted on Israeli civilians just days earlier. In its savage invasion beginning on the morning of Oct. 7, Hamas murdered more than 1,000 innocents, injured more than 3,000, and abducted more than 100. Terrorists beheaded babies, burned children alive, raped young girls, and kidnapped grandmothers. “I never really thought that I would ... have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” President Joe Biden said later that week. It was the deadliest day...

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