Arab and Most Muslim Rulers Are Spineless

America Descends into the Cesspool of History

Let’s shout it out. What Hamas did on October 7 was an act of terrorism. But as the Secretary General of the United Nations has said, this horrific act did not happen in a vacuum.

Before the creation of Israel, there was the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel by the right-wing Zionist Irgun. The hotel housed the British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine. That was terrorism.

In 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their land (without compensation) and evicted from their homes. That was terrorism.

Again in 1948, there was the Deir Yassin massacre, where Zionists from Irgun and Lehi killed more than 100 Palestinians, including women and children, this even after both parties had agreed to a peace. That was terrorism.

Then in 1982, there was the massacre at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps by Israeli forces and their Lebanese Christian allies during the Lebanese Civil War, killing up to 3,500 Palestinians. That was terrorism.

More recently, Israeli settlers living in illegal settlements built on confiscated Palestinian land and supported by Israeli forces have attacked, killed, separated and imprisoned Palestinians on a daily basis. That is terrorism.