Hamas’ attack on Israel on 10/7 has unleashed forces throughout the world. Years from now, it may be considered one of the watershed events in the political history of the world.
When Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in 1914, he started a series of events that changed the world forever. The ensuing world war led to revolution in Russia, the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendancy of France and Britain in the Middle East, the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and defeat of Germany paving the way for the future rise of Hitler and a second world war and the Holocaust.
Hamas’ attack on Israel on a Sabbath-holiday may also be a watershed event in the affairs of mankind. As we approach the two-month anniversary, let’s look at how the event is playing out worldwide.
*Israel. Israel in less than a day lost 1,200 people, the vast majority unarmed citizens, as well as 300 soldiers and 50 policemen. Reports in Israel and abroad seem to confirm that Israel had the plans for the attack well in advance, but top intelligence officers wrote it off as pure fantasy and berated lookouts and analysts who insisted that something was brewing. There are many conflicting reports related to details of the attack. Some say that the attack was supposed to occur last April during the Passover holiday, but the IDF raised its preparedness. Some say that Hamas and Hezbollah were supposed to attack in unison, while the Lebanese terror group claims that it did not know about the plans (hard to believe). Israel’s confidence was shaken to the core, but the people have come together as not seen in decades, and the IDF has been given a much freer hand on all fronts (including the West Bank) to destroy Israel’s enemies. I saw a video of a Palestinian throwing stones at an IDF position. After the second stone, he was shot dead. Such force was never allowed in the past. Israel will have to do some serious soul-searching to find and deal with the major structural and institutional faults that led to all of the failures that allowed 3,000 barbarians to enter Israel to kill, torture, rape, kidnap and plunder with minimum resistance until well into the attack. Heads will roll and some names will be remembered for generations as the ones responsible for the deaths, injuries and captives. However painful the attack and subsequent loss of soldiers has been, Israelis realize that Hamas terrorists could have reached IAF air bases, and they also had the home addresses of top officers. Their terrorists drove by a seminary that had 1,000 students in it and virtually no security. That it could have been worse is cold comfort, but people realize that Hamas planned for something even bigger.
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*Hamas. Initially, Hamas won the Bin Laden prize for being the most lethal and effective terror group. But as Israel has not played by Hamas’ playbook and has taken Gaza apart, the victory in the end may be pyrrhic. If Israel follows through with its promise to wipe out Hamas and its leaders worldwide, the event may be a turning point for Israel in destroying its non-state enemies who have attacked her from well before the founding of the country in 1948. Hezbollah, Iran and others are on notice. When Hamas is finished, Israel’s attention will turn to them.
*Middle Eastern States. Virtually every publication claims that leaders of Arab states are either telling Israel or hoping that she destroys Hamas. The biggest threat to any Arab leader is radicalized Muslims, not Jews or Americans. If Israel clobbers Hamas and maybe Hezbollah, their rule becomes more secure. They want Hamas and similarly-thinking Islamist movements destroyed.
*Europe. I cannot say if Geert Wilders’ recent election in Holland or the violent riots in Dublin in response to an Algerian stabbing children were fueled in part by the Hamas massacre and the left/Muslim celebrations in Europe, but Europe seems to be waking up to the disaster of its own making. For years, they have been importing immigrants wholesale from Islamic nations. No-go zones and the grooming and rape of girls were not enough to get the public to demand action. Now with 300,000 people marching in London and demanding an intifada from London to Israel, they are finally realizing that they need to stop bringing over people who hate them, throw out anyone who sides with the enemy, and start working to forcefully integrate those who remain. Geert Wilders has promised to ban the Koran and throw out large numbers of Muslim immigrants. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni also promised to stop the boats, with limited success, but the effect of the attacks and large-scale sometimes violent protests in Europe may simply shake the member states to stop their slow suicide by importation of large populations that reject European culture, history, and values. Muslim youths going to a small town to kill white boys may be the final straw for France which has seen decades of unrest from its immigrant population.
*The United States. The explosion of antisemitism on campus has finally made the DEI and intersectional scams public news. Most Jews in the US are of a liberal bent (except for orthodox who break 90% Republican), and they were in for a rude awakening when their fellow progressives threw them to the curb to embrace the barbaric and psychotic Hamas killers and their Muslim promoters. Campuses have been overrun with keffieyeh-wearing progressives demanding the genocide of the Jewish people either from “the river to the sea” or more generally throughout the world. Jewish donors have stopped donating, Jewish students are looking at safer college options, and federal and civil proceedings have begun against top-flight universities for their coddling of antisemites at the expense of Jewish students, who oftentimes no longer feel safe on campus. The Hamas pogrom might be the beginning of the end for the universities if federal funding is cut off or a new Republican president uses the bad behavior on campus to stop federal backing of student loans or as an excuse to tax endowment income. Away from campus, the few Mulsims who actually vote said that they will not vote for Biden if he does not force a ceasefire down Israel’s throat. More ominously for the president, younger voters are splitting with the Democrats with the complaint that Biden is too easy on Israel and should stop supporting her. Older Democrats feel that Israel has a right to defend itself and respond to those who killed its citizens. If Biden loses just a few points due to this split, a Republican president might be in the Oval Office in January of 2025.
*The UN. The UN has always been useless, but its leader’s blaming Israel for the attack and its women’s group not bothering to denounce rape and murder of Israeli women put the UN further in the worthless category. Iran is now in charge of the human rights council. The UN has moved from useless to irrelevant as its response to Hamas atrocities has fallen short due to its pro-Hamas members. Ditto for the Pope who told Israel’s president to stop “terror” against Gazans.
*The Palestinian Authority. Probably the biggest loser of the event after Israel is the PA. On the one hand, Hamas is hogging all of the attention and credit for an attack of a nature and at a scale never seen in 100 years of Arab violence against Jews in the Holy Land. So PA stock on the Palestinian street is approaching zero as 75% of Palestinians support Hamas’ murder spree. And then in the massive protests in the West, nobody makes mention of the PA or the antiquated “two state solution”. Only crusty Western politicians drag that one out because they are too dull to think of an alternative. Israel has made it clear that the PA will not take over Gaza, and daily, Israel enters PA areas of the West Bank to arrest and kill terrorists. Over 3,600 terrorists have been arrested since 10/7. The PA has nothing to offer, and nobody wants its services.
Hamas killed the most Jews since Hitler. But the implications of their attack and the numerous videos chronicling the bloodlust and killing orgy may usher in a new Republican president, destroy the university as the hotbed of progressive poison, turn Europe fully against Muslim immigrants, and let Israel deal with its enemies as she has failed to do in decades. Hamas unleashed forces well beyond the borders of Gaza and Israel, and how those forces will shape the future of the Middle East and the West will be seen in the coming years and decades.
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