The Crazy Story Behind the Disturbing News. Part One Victor Davis Hanson
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The Unspeakable Precivilizational Barbarity of Hamas
A recent report from Israel chronicles the tragic, more than two-months-long hunt of a bereaved father, David Tahar, for the head of his slain son, Adir—a young Israeli soldier murdered by terrorists on October 7.
Tahar had been warned by Israeli authorities not to view the remains of his son. But he insisted, and thus discovered the mutilation perpetrated by Hamas killers and then sought to find the missing remains of his son.
Israelis, however, recently captured two terrorists who knew firsthand of the incident—given one was the perpetrator. And then the story descended further into barbarism.
Or in the words of the news report from The Times of Israel:
“Two terrorists who were captured by Israeli forces and interrogated by the Shin Bet security service revealed that one of them had tried to sell an IDF soldier’s head for $10,000 and gave details on where it could be found.”
Further macabre questions arise: is there a market for severed Israeli heads? Does the $10,000 dovetail with the earlier reports that Hamas was offering $10,000 bounties to Gaza “civilians” who tagged along opportunistically as soon as word spread that the wall was breached, Israeli civilians were being robbed, raped, and murdered—and bounties offered for ad hoc killing and hostage-taking?
Acting on such details from the captured terrorist, an Israeli patrol went out and recently found the head of Adir Tahar.
The details of the gruesomeness only mounted:
“Orders were given for an elite unit, backed up by tanks, to enter a central Gaza location where they found the head in a bag inside a freezer in an ice cream store… The severed head had also apparently been further abused… It was returned to Israel. DNA and dental records showed that it was Adir’s head and it was later buried.”
So decapitation was not savage enough for the Hamas ethos, and the bartered head of the slain soldier was then further mutilated? Was the civilian proprietor of the ice cream store at all bothered that his refrigeration appliances were used to store a human head? Was he the purchaser of the human head from the terrorist decapitator? Or was he the seller? Or was he simply the transactional middleman?
The Times of Israel also referenced a CNN-released video from October 7 of Hamas terrorist gunmen filmed while sawing off the heads of dead IDF soldiers, and an account of the decapitation by a shovel of an Israeli woman in the act of being raped—yet another sick crime to be added to the others of the simultaneous raping and lethally stabbing of Israeli women.
At some point can the diseased mind of the Western world do the simple enough moral calculus between these two sides of this war? It is not that hard.
Or to put it another way: one side decapitates and then sells severed heads, and one does not, and millions cannot see a difference.
To be continued…
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