Some Personal Thoughts About This Somber Day, October 7th

By Gerald A. Honigman

I recently read yet another stand out article, this one by the Middle East Forum’s A.J. Caschetta, “Call It October 7,” in Israel National News…

The evening before two years ago today, I was with my middle daughter Jessie and her husband Nik’s beautiful family celebrating Shimini atzeret, the end of Sukkot, at a Chabad tent in the pouring rain in Jacksonville, Florida.

I returned to their home contemplating my next analysis of events happening in the ever turbulent Middle East.

I dozed off watching Fox News (one of the best sources) for the latest reports and was awakened by my Son-in-Law on Simchat Torah to learn of what was transpiring in Israel on October 7th, 2023.

I wish I could say that I was surprised.

Enraged, yes, but surprised…no.

These were the same supremacist, jihadi butchers who had slaughtered and maimed thousands of Israeli Jews and others associated with them in years past on civilian buses, in  restaurants, teen nightclubs, Passover seders, ice cream and pizza parlors, and so forth.

The despicable subhuman beasts even built a museum on a university campus displaying models of Jewish body parts hanging from the ceiling of the Sbarro pizzeria they blew up….Sick.

Who does this deliberate, bloodthirsty, unbelievable stuff?

The same folks who DELIBERATELY gassed to death and otherwise slaughtered over 250,000 Kurds in the ANFAL Campaign in Iraq, murdered hundreds of thousands in black Africa, slaughters innocent Hindus, Druse, Assyrian Christians, and so forth.

Hint: It ain’t Jews…

“Palestinian University Features Exhibit Showing Suicide Bombing in Jerusalem”

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Thus, whether a hypocritical world agrees and/or likes it or not, this is the very real nature of the unparalleled, gruesome enemy that Israel faces. No other nation nor people would be expected to put up with what Israel has repeatedly endured.

And don’t dare bring up the alleged “innocent” Arab refugee argument.

More Sefardi and Mizrahi Jews fled so-called “purely” Arab/Muslim lands than Arabs who fled in the opposite direction due to a war a half dozen Arab nations started to nip a tiny, resurrected nation of Israel Reborn in the bud in May 1948, during the same week of my own worldly debut on May 8,1948, President Harry S.Truman’s birthday—the man who fought his own State Department over Israel’s recognition..

Inadvertently, this next analysis complete with relevant articles of the Geneva Conventions on War served as a prequel to what’s transpired in the wake of October 7th…

And this was penned in retrospect later:

With such a totally rejectionist, bloodlust oriented foe, there can be no compromise—unless Israel masochistically chooses, or has its collective arms twisted by its “friends” as in a Neville Chamberlain sellout of Czechoslovakia in 1938 for “peace for our time “‘–to allow Hamas and its allies to repeat October 7th over and over again, as it has promised to do.

The only sane answer to this