The True Faces Of Evil

A myth pervades Western societies that is unbelievably dangerous and stupid.

The myth is that all cultures are like ours and all other people outside ours are really just like us. They think the same way. They want the same things. All that is required is a little bit of kindness and education for everyone to blossom into a good Westerner.

That is a lie.

It is a truly dangerous lie because granting that credibility to people who actively want something different, who foment evil, and who teach their children evil — when you say, “they don’t really want evil, they’re not really evil, and they don’t believe evil things; really, it’s just about us not being nice enough” — results in surrendering to the evil.

That is the story of the Palestinian nationalist cause for the last 80 years. The Palestinian nationalist cause is based on an evil supposition, which is the destruction of the state of Israel. It is about the extirpation of the Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel.

How do we know this? Because the call for a Palestinian state originally ended with the creation of one in Jordan. The original territory of Israel was supposed to include both Jordan and Israel. Then, under the British mandate, Jordan was segmented and made into a Palestinian state for the Arabs. Under a variety of negotiations and white papers from the British, the supposition became that Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip would eventually become an Arab state from the Partition Plan of 1947. 

That was rejected by the Arabs. The Arabs said there can be no Jewish state under any circumstances at all. Palestinian nationalism is rooted in rejectionism of a Jewish presence anywhere in that area and the extirpation of all Jews from that area, which is why every two-state solution that has ever been proposed by anyone has included the complete, Judenrein nature of a Palestinian state — no Jews living within an Arab Palestine — despite the fact that 20% of Israel is actually Arab Muslim.

This also became clear between 1948 and 1967 when Egypt was in control of the Gaza Strip and Jordan was in control of Judea and Samaria; there was no attempt at a Palestinian state.

In fact, in 1964, when the Palestine Liberation Organization was originally founded, calling for a Palestinian state, Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip were not in Jewish hands. So the call for a Palestinian state when the PLO was founded was genuinely for the destruction of the state of Israel. The Palestinian cause has always been about the destruction of the state of Israel.

That is why the Palestinians will simultaneously insist that Gaza is their home but also a refugee camp. A refugee camp from where? Tel Aviv.

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It’s why the Palestinians have always called for a “right of return” that would allow them to enter Israel and destroy it from within. This has always been the Palestinian nationalist cause.

Because of the West’s own stupid idea that everyone thinks like the West, the West has decided this is just a territorial dispute, that if the sides could just get over themselves and if lines were drawn in the right places, everybody would go home happy. What everybody wanted was two states side by side in peace and prosperity. 

But that was a lie. It is a lie. And it will always be a lie because the Palestinian nationalist cause is to reject the Jewish state and eliminate Jews. 

That is the only way to understand what happened on Thursday.

Israel and Hamas had an ongoing hostage deal, a so-called cease-fire. The deal was that Hamas was supposed to trickle out live hostages and dead bodies of the people kidnapped on October 7, and in return, Israel was to turn over murderous terrorists.

Israel has foolishly agreed to these sorts of deals in the past and is agreeing to those deals now because Israel puts a high priority on not only getting live citizens home, but also getting dead bodies home for proper burial.

It is a policy with which I disagree because it only further incentivizes hostage-taking. But that is the policy of the state of Israel. That’s why a cease-fire is in place. 

The Hamas terror group runs the Gaza Strip with the acquiescence and support of the civilian population, which supports the destruction of Israel, as does is the Arab civilian population in Judea and Samaria, with Arab children inculcated in the idea of eradicating the Jewish people.

A couple of days ago, Hamas announced that three members of the Bibas family — the mother and her nine-month-old and three-year-old sons — were dead when they were kidnapped by Palestinian civilians on October 7. Hamas claimed the boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

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The bodies were returned to Israel. After a forensic analysis and autopsy, we now know from the IDF that the two little boys did not die of malnutrition. They were apparently murdered roughly one month into their captivity. 

Even if they’d been killed in an airstrike, that would still be on Hamas; Hamas initiated this war with its murderous attack.

The IDF has now made public the physical details of the bodies of these babies to various other countries. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said, “Ariel and Kfir were brutally murdered in cold blood during their captivity in Gaza in the first weeks of the war. The terrorists didn’t murder them with gunfire – they murdered them with their bare hands. Afterwards, they committed terrible actions in order to try and hide the horrific acts.”

So they mutilated the bodies to make it look as though they were not, in fact, beaten or strangled to death. Remember, they were taken by people not in Hamas uniforms. They were taken by Gazan civilians. This is what evil sounds like. True evil.

There’s no other word for it. There are no synonyms that do justice to the barbarity, cruelty, and horror of what this ideology generates. So Hamas was supposed to release the bodies of these children they had murdered along with their mother in exchange for live terrorists.

One party is seeking to bring back the dead bodies, the corpses of children who were murdered. The other is celebrating the release of terrorists who murdered children. This is the moral logic being utilized. Not all cultures are the same. Not all people think the same way. Not all people inculcate the same values in their children.

That is a stupid, idiotic, foolish, counterproductive, and dangerous Western conceit.

That is the only way to look at what happened on Thursday in the Gaza Strip. Hamas held a parade, an actual parade, with the coffins of Jewish babies as celebratory music played. Representatives from all of the various terror groups, including Fatah, were present. Fatah is the military wing of the so-called moderate Palestinian Authority that is supposedly ruling Judea and Samaria at this point. People cheered as celebratory music played in the background. The voices of children can be heard in the massive crowd. The crowd showed up to cheer, to celebrate the dead bodies of babies. 

This is a culture of death. It is an evil culture.

I’ve never even heard of a culture that celebrates the death of babies — who celebrates the actual murder of children, not civilian casualties, which are tragic and awful and should be avoided. But the actual purposeful murder of babies? There is no culture on earth that I’ve even heard of that does this. And yet that’s what it was.

The “innocent, starved, genocided” Gazan civilians cheered as the coffins of babies were transported. By the way, children took part in this too. 

The awful evil tragedy of children being indoctrinated into something like this is beyond words. It is unspeakably evil and horrifying. A full stage and sound production was built; there were exhibits with the coffins. Children came on stage to dance and sing where the babies’ bodies had been just one second prior. They were somewhere between five and ten years old, smiling, cheering, dancing up and down. 

These are the people that Western leftists support, these human pieces of debris. 

These people.

Western self-flagellation, Western self-hatred, Western belief that all sins in the world can be laid at the feet of the West is not just self-defeating. It is wrong. It foments evil. It makes evil more common. 

Hamas initiated this war knowing precisely what would happen, and they did so knowing the Western Left would come to their defense. And, indeed, they were not disappointed. The Western Left did come to their defense because the Western Left is of the opinion that the more barbaric, evil, and angry a group of people is, the more they must have been victimized by evil overlords.

By the way, Hamas actually labeled the coffins with the supposed “date of arrest,” which was October 7.

Further, the coffins were locked. The Israelis had to run them through metal detectors to ensure they were not booby trapped with bombs because that is something that Hamas absolutely would do. Hamas gave them keys to the locks, but the keys did not match the locks. They gave them false keys to the locks.

Then, when Israel was finally able to open the coffins, they found them filled with leaflets of Hamas propaganda. As a final indignity, Israel had to do forensic analysis on the charred bodies of a baby, a toddler and a mom.

They did this on purpose. They kidnapped babies to murder them, and then they held their bodies to free terrorists.

That is evil. And a culture that celebrates it in the streets is evil. Every aspect of it was celebrated by a huge percentage of the population in the Gaza Strip. That means that the “two-state solution” is, was, and always will be completely unworkable because one side wants to kill everyone on the other side in any case.

The final indignity involved was the mother’s body. When analyzed, it turned out it was not her body at all. Hamas handed over a random woman’s body instead. 

On this same day, five buses were loaded with bombs in Israel. Three of them blew up near Tel Aviv. The initial assessment from the security establishment is that the plan for the attack came from Iran. It was carried out by Hamas terrorists from Judea and Samaria.

It was only through the grace of God that the bombs did not kill hundreds of people. The goal was presumably to set off bombs simultaneously around Israel; draw troops to those areas; breach fences between the Arab areas of Judea, Samaria, and the Jewish areas; and then rush into various Jewish villages and commit another October 7, this time from the Judea and Samaria area. 

President Trump is absolutely right. The time to unleash hell is long past. President Trump acknowledges realities on the ground better than any politician I’ve seen. He recognizes that the “two-state solution” nonsense is precisely that. It is rooted in wishful thinking, not in reality. When President Trump suggests that Gaza be cleared of its population and turned into a place of investment and decency with people being allowed to go elsewhere, he is posing the only decent solution that I have heard to this entire situation for decades.

This bizarre, stupid Western notion that you can project your own values onto people who celebrate, cheer, and train their children to cheer the death of babies, the purposeful murder of babies, is morally perverted. And the sick, false equivalence by some people in the media infrastructure who suggest there is somehow an equivalence between attempting to target a terrorist who hides behind a child (and the child being a civilian casualty) and breaking into a family’s home, kidnapping and carrying babies to terror tunnels, and murdering them is morally perverted.