A time for vengeance

The Simchat Torah massacre will be remembered for many generations to come.

By Michael Selutin | | Topics: Gaza, Hamas
Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, October 12, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90
Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, October 12, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Guy Hochman, a popular Israeli comedian, quoted on his Twitter account (X) the statement of a volunteer to Channel 12 News:

“A group of 20 children were rounded up, shot, these Nazis put them in a pile and set them on fire. A true Holocaust.

“When I was on a trip to Poland and saw some of the horrors of the Nazis and the families exterminated, I felt a sense of revenge that I couldn’t explain. Now it’s happening again. There must be a Jewish uprising here. Thousands of years from now, the Simchat Torah massacre will be remembered and history will judge the response and resilience of the Jewish people. If we don’t respond properly, the destruction of the country will be the result. The stupid government has been ‘killing high-ranking officials’ [in Gaza] for years, it doesn’t understand that new high-ranking officials will always emerge. The terrorists must be eliminated on recruitment day. The abductees must be returned by force and Gaza must be cleansed by force. The army must restore our honor by force.

“We also have a responsibility. Everyone today should consider themselves a partisan, a guardian of Israel, a protector of the country. We are now experiencing it first-hand. We promised a million children who died in the Holocaust that this would never happen again. And it happened again. Now we must engrave it on our hearts and fulfill the promise to the 20 children burned to death in Be’eri and dozens of other babies and children murdered in the massacre. It’s time for revenge.”

Guy Hochman: A time for revenge

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One response to “A time for vengeance”

  1. Annette Leon says:

    A Evangelical Christian response…… what would that be? What would YESHUA have to say? Vengeance is mine as it is writtenin in the Tanach. Could you practice an eye for an eye ? 🤔🔯

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