[Opinion] The year after October 7 will be better
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For many generations to come, 5784 will be remembered as a year of catastrophe. The inhuman brutality of the October 7 atrocities, the ongoing torture and murder of the hostages, the exile of thousands of families from their homes, and the pervasive arrogance in Israel that allowed this horror to take place will remain deeply embedded on the consciousness of the Jewish people. The painful pleas of the victims, their family members, and friends will continue to echo for many years.
In addition, the grotesque displays of hypocrisy and immorality from the leaders of the world’s democracies and the so-called international community, at levels far beyond those imagined by the greatest cynics, will accompany these memories.
Under the facades of human rights and international law, whatever Israel does to protect its citizens and minimize the harm to civilians on the other side is automatically and mindlessly denounced as a “war crime.” Karim Khan, the supposedly unbiased prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, is calling for the arrest and trial of Israeli leaders under the blatantly false accusation of deliberately starving innocent civilians in Gaza.