21 hours Ago By Avi Benlolo
Article content Hamas’s announcement earlier this week that the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, along with their mother Shiri, would be returned to Israel sent shock waves around the world. The sheer cruelty of holding the corpses of murdered children as bargaining chips demonstrates the depths of depravity to which Hamas has sunk. On Sky News, Chris Kenny did not mince words, calling the move an “abomination” and declaring that, “These cowardly barbarians deserve no mercy.
Hamas needs to be eliminated and destroyed, not negotiated with. Now they trade the bodies of kidnapped children to get their own terrorists out of Israeli prisons. They can sink no lower.
The actions of humans cannot be more hideous.” The horror of October 7 remains fresh in our minds. We remember the footage of Shiri Bibas desperately clinging to her children as they were dragged into Gaza.
Regardless of how they were ultimately killed, the simple truth remains: they are dead because Hamas took them. Hamas stormed into Israeli communities on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, committing acts of unspeakable violence — murdering, raping and mutilating entire families who had woken up that morning expecting to celebrate a joyous holiday. The Bibas family, like so many others, were caught in the crosshairs of a group that has perfected the art of human cruelty.
Yet, as the reality of Hamas’s barbarism is laid bare, in some circles, an insidious effort to cleanse the narrative has begun. Former U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley exposed this moral whitewashing, tweeting: “Shame on any media outlet that can’t call this what it is, murder. Two innocent babies, their mother, and others did not simply ‘die’. They were kidnapped, murdered, and their bodies were held as bargaining chips by terrorists.
“Anyone who doubts the brutality of Hamas, anyone who thinks these are people who can be negotiated with, look at what they did to Ariel and Kfir. “Hamas needs to be finished once and for all.” And yet, despite all this, Hamas’s supporters and apologists continue to rally around them.
Let us be clear: those parading Jewish hostages before cameras, humiliating them in the streets and desecrating their remains are cut from the same cloth as the Nazis. There is no distinction to be made. Hamas wants to kill Jews, just as the Nazis did.
If you were Jewish and in their grasp, you were marked for death on October 7. Disturbingly, the international community — including UN agencies and their affiliates — has enabled this evil by failing to hold Hamas accountable. The same so-called “human rights defenders” who obsessively criticize Israel for the conditions in Gaza conveniently ignore that Hamas has spent billions in international aid not on schools, roads or hospitals, but on tunnels and weapons.
This grotesque moral blindness is not just complicity — it is a global crisis of values. For 25 years, I have fought against the insidious propaganda of “Israeli Apartheid Week” and the BDS movement on university campuses. These ideological weapons have metastasized into mainstream wokeism, which is eroding society’s ability to differentiate between right and wrong.
The principles that our parents and grandparents upheld in fighting the Nazis — moral clarity, the conviction to stand against evil — are now ridiculed or ignored. When the UN secretary general suggests that October 7 “did not happen in a vacuum,” when the International Red Cross thinks its heroic for acting like a car service and when international courts falsely accuse Israel of “genocide” while ignoring Hamas’s barbarism, something is deeply, tragically wrong with how the world differentiates between good and evil. Those who defend Hamas — through words, silence or outright endorsement — are complicit in the murders of the Bibas family.
History will remember them as it remembers those who stood by while the Nazis slaughtered six-million Jews. The Allied forces understood that evil cannot be appeased — it must be vanquished. The cancer of Hamas must be removed for peace and civilization to prevail.
Today, Israel stands alone, much like Britain did in 1940, fighting an evil that the world has not yet fully reckoned with. But the clock is ticking on Hamas. Its days are numbered.
My hope is that the brutal murder of the Bibas family will serve as a moral wake-up call. Hopefully, more people — Jewish and non-Jewish alike — will come to recognize the evil of Hamas and stand with those of us who have been fighting this battle in Gaza, on university campuses and in the streets from the very beginning. National Post.
