Forest Rain @frisrael wrote, "There is cruelty and then there is another level of cruelty - one that delights in causing pain and mocks hope.
Mocking cruelty like the sign over the entrance to Auschwitz "Work will set you free" -
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Mocking cruelty like the sign over the entrance to Auschwitz "Work will set you free" -
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while deliberately forcing Jews to do exhausting work that created nothing and the only freedom available was that of death.
It takes knowledge of the victim to know how to cause the deepest level of pain.
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It takes knowledge of the victim to know how to cause the deepest level of pain.
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Hamas understands us. They say of themselves "We love death like the Jews love life". They know that of all the hostages they took, it was the look of terror in the eyes of Shiri Bibas, desperate to protect her babies.
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They knew that the most effective way to hurt Yarden Bibas, who they captured and held separately, was to tell him that his wife and babies were dead - but not to show them to him. They made him make a video, begging for them knowing that this was the best way to hurt us too.
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Now Yarden is being released. A wonderful event that holds another layer of cruelty.
Tomorrow he will come home and no one will be able to tell him any news about his wife and babies because we don't know for sure.
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Tomorrow he will come home and no one will be able to tell him any news about his wife and babies because we don't know for sure.
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Israel asked for proof, to give the Bibas family certainty. Instead we are being given Yarden. This is deliberate, calculated cruelty.
Most people around the world have never encountered this level of evil.
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Most people around the world have never encountered this level of evil.
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That makes it hard to understand what is happening, because how could anyone good even want to imagine that this level of evil exists?
But we need to look evil in the eye and recognize what it is. That is the only way we can ever be strong enough to counter it.
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But we need to look evil in the eye and recognize what it is. That is the only way we can ever be strong enough to counter it.
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And if we want to live, we must.
Look at this innocent, happy family. Pure good, swept up by twisted, nasty evil that delights in their suffering - because their suffering is our suffering.
And they don't just want Jews gone, they want us to suffer in the process.
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Look at this innocent, happy family. Pure good, swept up by twisted, nasty evil that delights in their suffering - because their suffering is our suffering.
And they don't just want Jews gone, they want us to suffer in the process.
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We must be strong. For Yarden. For our future.
We cannot live with this evil on our doorstep anymore."
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We cannot live with this evil on our doorstep anymore."
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