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How the _____ did this happen? Israel, Hamas, the Bible, trauma, and a podcast with Prof. Jacob Wright

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At Kibbutz Kfar Aza, they have found the bodies of some 40 babies, some of whom had been beheaded.


This past week has been the most difficult week in the history of the Jewish people since the end of the Shoah/Holocaust in 1945.

There is a word for what happened, and it is not an “attack.”

It is a pogrom, and it makes the most infamous pogroms in Jewish history – those at Kishinev, 1903 -- pale in comparison.

They did not go after military targets. Hardly. They have taken hostages — children; elderly people, including a Holocaust survivor who uses a wheelchair; and several soldiers.

  • More than 260 bodies have been recovered at a music festival in southern Israel.
  • Jews were rounded up and shot in the streets; we have not seen this since the Holocaust.
  • Hamas dragged hostages through the streets of Gaza. They publicly mutilated corpses.
  • Israeli girls raped.
  • Children in Gaza tormented Israeli hostage children.
  • Hamas pulled hostages from cars, screaming “Allah hu akhbar!”
  • Hamas has called on their people to use all weapons. Including axes.
  • They screamed, in apocalyptic tones: “Today the most glorious and honorable history begins.”
  • The charter of Hamas is an opera of conspiratorial antisemitism, which suggests that the Jews are in league with calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and her inhabitants: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” In its 1988 charter, it alleged that the Jews were in league with "Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, and the Lions."


    • There is a word for what we -- all Jews, and not just Israelis -- are experiencing.

    It is called trauma.


    We dedicate this podcast to the people of Israel, as we talk about trauma, resiliency, and hope.

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