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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/column/fiamma-nirenstein/oct-7-isnt-over
Oct. 7 Isn't Over
(JNS) Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein - Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar's plan for Oct. 7, set out in his own handwriting, said: Go and destroy the Jews. In doing so, you will not win the war, but you will win history. You will destroy Israel. And this first conquest will precede the destruction of Jewish history and, with it, the entire Judeo-Christian civilization that it generated. For "moral reasons," the Palestinians coldly decided to burn alive, dismember, rape and murder Jewish families in the Israeli kibbutzim bordering Gaza. For Hamas, Iran and many other actors now active throughout the world, humanitarianism itself becomes part of the execution. It is the intention that has driven antisemitism through the centuries: to cleanse the earth of Jews, and therefore today, first and foremost, of Israel. Everywhere, Oct. 7 is celebrated as a festival of the genocide of the Jews - of the campaign to erase the Jews. Faced with every piece of nonsense, every criminal fantasy about Israel and the Jews, those who respect themselves have no choice but to look the enemy and the fool in the eye. Antisemitism has endured through the centuries, but the Jews have endured, too. The difference today lies in the certainty that Israel knows how to win wars. The entire West can win with Israel, if it still wants to and still is able. The writer, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, served as vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.