‘Many New York Jews believe they will be safer in Israel than they are walking down the streets of today’s New York City’
By Maria Kneas
I am a born-again Christian believer who is also Jewish. My mother is Jewish and I was raised on stories of the Holocaust.
Therefore, anti-Semitism hits me hard, at gut level. So the news of the massive Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, in which more than 1,200 people were killed, including babies and the elderly, was absolutely devastating. Jews were raped, beheaded and burned alive – including infants. The people who did these unspeakable things were so proud of what they were doing that they used their victims’ smartphones to make videos of the horrors and post them on social media.
The next day, Israel started going after Hamas in Gaza. That always makes Israel look bad, because Hamas always hides behind “human shields” – women and children – and then Israel is blamed when there are civilian casualties. We have learned how Hamas has stored its weapons beneath hospitals, schools and daycare centers, how it has built a huge underground complex of terror tunnels large enough to drive vehicles through, and how the hospitals, schools and other civilian buildings have shafts leading down to those terror tunnels.