Islamic State Khorasan claimed responsibility and said its terrorists had killed ‘disbelieving Christians’
Jews are only the first in the Islamists’ queue for destruction, and not really because of anything they’ve done. The Moscow rock concert terrorist attack reminds us Christians are next.
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Now the world can see in Moscow what Israel is up against, too – and that blaming the Jews for this war in Gaza is a mistake and wicked slur.
Four Islamic State gunmen on Friday stormed a rock concert in Moscow and killed at least 133 people for the crime of being unbelievers.
Be clear about that. The Islamic State Khorasan, an Islamic State branch based in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility and said its terrorists had killed “disbelieving Christians”.
One terrorist boasts on video: “The disbelievers are defeated.”
Yes, Jews are only the first in the Islamists’ queue for destruction, and not really because of anything they’ve done.
Moscow reminds us Christians are next.
In Israel, Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group which runs Gaza started this latest war on October 7 by slaughtering 1200 Israelis, raping women and taking some 250 people hostage.
When I holidayed in Israel a couple of weeks ago I visited Be’eri, a kibbutz targeted by Hamas, and saw how deliberately the terrorists had gone from house to house, killing people who clearly posed no threat – socialists, ironically, and many of them women and the elderly. This was genocidal. Primitive. An evil you can’t bargain with.
A poll of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank published two weeks ago by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research confirms it.
Despite the destructive war that followed, 71 per cent of Palestinians still support the October 7 slaughter of the Jews.
More disturbingly, 81 per cent insisted they’d seen no Hamas atrocities even after watching a video Israel compiled of bodycam footage from Hamas terrorists as they murdered and mutilated civilians, dragged a clearly raped woman from a car, beheaded even a Thai worker with a hoe.
What’s more, Ghazi Hamad, from the Hamas political bureau, pledged “we will do this again and again”, and the PCPSR poll said 56 per cent of Palestinians even in shattered Gaza thought Hamas would still win.
Yet Western leaders still demand Israel make a deal with Hamas, as if that would end this.
Again, the Moscow attack is a warning. The Islamic State Khorasan had just 1500 to 2000 members left by 2001 as Americans and their allies in the Afghan army picked them off.
But then President Joe Biden deserted Afghanistan, the Taliban took over and the Islamic State rebuilt.
Look now at Moscow. Yes, war is terrible, but “peace” also has a price.
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