“I cannot understand anyone who compares,” he said. “And after what we have shared with you, you should know it.”
Gen. Edelstein is correct. There can be no comparison between Hamas terrorists murdering innocent civilians, deliberately killing as many as possible to elicit the maximum amount of rage from the Israelis, and the IDF bombing Hamas positions in Gaza, killing civilians who were being forced to shield the terrorist fighters.
The documents recovered from the bodies of the Hamas militants made it clear that Hamas “came with orders to slaughter and burn citizens”, General Edelstein said.
“They simply decided to burn families within their homes. And they took hostages alive, they were aiming to take children back into Gaza,” he said.
“Orders were there for how many to kill, how many to take as hostages. Orders were there to rape, all was written and ordered.”
As revolting and nauseating as these documented cases of rape, torture, beheading, and infanticide are, we must bear witness to them. Imagine recordings of Jews being led to the slaughter during the Holocaust. The casual barbarity of Nazis being recorded. Imagine images and video of the gas chambers, of naked Jews being herded into the “showers,” and of the screaming, clawing, weeping people slowly dying.
Then the wheeled carts came and the Kapos piled the bodies up — after the hair, gold teeth, and anything else of value was removed. Then, to the crematoriums that operated 24 hours a day to obliterate the evidence of the atrocities.
Imagine if that had all been on video and shown to the people of Europe and the United States. It’s impossible to say that the Holocaust could have been avoided or mitigated. But if even one life had been saved, would it have been worth it?