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Their Time is Up
Liel Leibovitz
February 20, 2025

…Such gleeful cruelty has no parallel in the civilized world. Sure, war is hell, and combat rarely concludes without a handful of shocking aberrations. A soldier may crack and do the unthinkable. A rocket might miss its mark, snuffing out innocent lives. That is all too regrettable, and all but unavoidable. But that is not what is happening in Gaza. The footage of a dead Jewish baby returning home to Israel for burial compels us to tell the truth: The assertion that most, or even many, Gazans are innocents hijacked by their tyrannical leaders is a polite fiction. There are certainly some somewhere in the strip, the very young and the very frail included, who neither partook in nor condone the atrocities of the past 18 months, but they should no more redeem Gaza’s genocidal enterprise than the hypothetical ten good men of Sodom and Gomorrah could the cities of the plain. READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Our enemy kidnaps babies. And their support grows still. There are losses so cruel, so unbearable, that they defy all sense of reason. The deaths of Shiri Bibas and her two precious sons, Ariel and Kfir, are not just a personal tragedy, not just a moment of grief for their husband and father, Yarden, and those who knew them, or people like us who feel like we knew them; they are a wound in the heart of our people. A wound in Israel. A wound that should be felt by all sensible humans.