No Justice, No Peace: End Hamas Now

We almost never post two stories in a single day and today we do so with heavy hearts. This morning, Hamas announced that they would hand over the bodies of four hostages kidnapped during the October 7 attack in 2023, including Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir, ten months old, and Ariel, four years old. Hamas released their father, Yarden Bibas, on February 1.

Hamas previously claimed that Shiri and the Bibas children had been killed in captivity. After Yarden Bibas’ release, he and other released hostages reportedly disclosed being subjected to endless abuses which included being told they were “going home tomorrow,” when they were not, and that Hamas operatives would give them food and then take it away again while laughing at them.

In the most egregious incidents, Yarden was often taunted about his family, until eventually Hamas operatives told him that his wife and children had been killed and he was forced to film a propaganda video in which he blamed an IDF airstrike for their deaths.

Vengeance implies punishment or retribution; justice implies fairness, decency, and righteousness. What punishment or retribution could ever make up for the murder of two children? What fairness, decency, or righteousness could be found to exchange for the murder of a man’s heart and soul?

Hamas must be eradicated; the apparatus that supports the caliphate groups must be dismantled brick by brick, and those bricks smashed to pieces; those who would murder children and torment their parents must be burned from the earth.

Not for vengeance nor retribution nor justice but as a warning to others that the wanton slaughter and torment of innocents will not be tolerated, and that we will not be provoked with impunity.

Our hearts are with the Bibas family today, and the endless other victims of Islamist terror. In pace requiescat.