2026-10-08
1 小时 38 分钟Today is October 7th, 2026. It's the third anniversary of the most horrifying,
certainly the most widely publicized attack on mainland Israel in its history.
Three years ago today, of course you remember, forces of Hamas, the militant group,
also the, at the time, government of Gaza, the Israeli-controlled, semi-technically independent area south of Israel,
taken by the Israeli government in 1967 and run ever since.
Fighters from Hamas rolled over the border into southern Israel, into famously a music festival,
into a kibbutz, several, and began killing people and taking hostages.
1,200 people were killed, the majority of them civilians, a lot of them at that music festival.
And the world was horrified by this, instantly horrified by it because it was obviously horrifying.
The majority of people killed.
To repeat, were civilians.
They were not IDF soldiers.
They were just Israelis, and a lot of them were women and young people, and they were killed.
And people across the world, even people who aren't generally on Israel's side,
paused to acknowledge, all good people did, that this is awful.
There's no excuse for this, and that no one can ever defend the murder of civilians at any time, at any place.
And so that was the reaction, the gut reaction of most people.
Certainly my reaction, certainly everyone watching this, probably felt exactly the same way.
What only a few people understood immediately were two things.
One, this is pretty weird that this could happen.