(Washington Post) Kathleen Parker - The blame for the current war belongs to Hamas. Its surprise attack on Oct. 7 brought death on both sides. Israel has promised to keep pushing forward until all Israeli hostages, estimated to be 243, are released, and that's understandable. I've tried to imagine how Americans would have responded had similar atrocities been committed on our turf. We know what happened following 9/11. But 9/11 was abstract and mechanical - airplanes against buildings, not quite real. What happened in Israel was in many instances face-to-face, intimate. The Hamas militants looked their victims in the eyes before slitting their throats, or mowing down their children, or setting fire to the living. Their cruelty is inconceivable to any normal person, and yet they laughed and celebrated with whoops as they killed and killed and killed. How could anyone find common cause with such people?
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