Should students in Connecticut and around the country learn these lessons from the atrocities of which Hamas is incontestably guilty, the deaths of their victims will not have been entirely in vain.
“O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”
In this injunction in Article Seven of the Hamas Covenant, ratified in 1988, one finds the reason for the invasion of Israel that began on Oct. 7. Hamas does not merely seek the extermination of Jews. That is why it exists. That is why its fighters decapitate Israeli babies, rape Israeli women and burn victims alive. That is why they humiliate Israel children and grandmothers before killing them. That is why they slaughter over 200 Israeli teenagers gathered peacefully at a concert. Everyone in Israel Hamas has murdered were murdered for one reason and one reason only – because they were Jews. According to the same covenant, which reads like an addendum to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” Jews are devoid of humanity, a demonic people responsible for everything Hamas objects to in human history, from the French Revolution to World War II.
The atrocities Hamas has committed are not a regrettable byproduct of warfare that occur in all wars. They are its purpose.
In the face of such unmitigated evil one might expect the leaders of colleges and universities in Connecticut, and the students who attend them, to respond with moral clarity: distinguishing good from evil, virtue from moral depravity, and an organization committed to the extermination the Jewish people from the nation-state of the Jewish people, the state of Israel, which is the only democracy in the Middle East, and the only country in the Middle East that affords all of its citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, the civil liberties we enjoy in America.
