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Elana Gomel's avatar

The grotesque pageant of the hostages' release simply confirms what I have said elsewhere: Hamas are worse than Nazis. I am speaking as somebody who has written extensively on Nazism, so I am not using this as a meaningless label. The Nazis at least tried to hide what they were doing. Taking pictures of the executions was prohibited (though some did it anyway). But Hamas is proud of its atrocities, putting them on social media and staging them like theater.

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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

Am I the only one that thinks this only makes Hamas look worse (if that’s really possible). Masked and finally in uniform, not the least starved and menacing looking/. Just looked like a bunch of thugs.

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Robin Alexander's avatar

They do look menacing (I try to think of them as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).

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Elissa Wald's avatar

Absolutely.

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Robin Alexander's avatar

Yes, I have heard this more than once from the beginning, from various sources.

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Rikki Schoenthal's avatar

What an accurate and well written summary! I hope you know that these essays you share with us are such a gift. The way you are able to identify, understand, and then articulate our own inchoate, powerful feelings--its effect on me is much relief... you've done that task for me in your writings. I can take time to gather myself together and gird my loins for the ongoinng battles in this crazy world we're in right now.

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Ellen's avatar

Rikki, you said it perfectly. Thank you, Ellen

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Stephanie Kahn's avatar

As always, you sum up my feelings beautifully. As always, you sum up the situation brilliantly. Thank you so much. Shabbat shalom!

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Elissa Wald's avatar

P.S. Another plane just crashed into several residential buildings in Philadelphia.

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nataniarosenfeld@gmail.com's avatar

It's all so ugly, and yet you are continually eloquent, and that helps me keep my spirits up. Thank you, so very much.

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Robin Alexander's avatar

I love "batshit Bobby". Hilarious. Here's part of the problem: I'm in a shop in downtown west palm beach and a bunch of people are marching by with all kinds of banners about MAGA and immigrants, seemingly against the current administration, and then I see the red and green flags. I can't ally myself with these people.

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