Some days, I read the news and stare vacantly at a blank sheet of paper. Too cold to think, too shell-shocked to write.
How could I ever express the horrors, the great, unthinkable evils that transpired in Gaza this week? How could I ever express the moral outrage every decent human being should feel towards the barbaric, satanic, murderous monsters who ripped two babies, Ariel, 4, and Kfir, not even 9 months old, from their home in Israel and murdered them and their mother?
Today, Hamas, the scourge of humanity, returned to Israel the remains of four of the hostages they captured on October 7, 2023: Shiri Bibas (who was 32 when she was captured), her two young children, and Oded Lifshitz (83 at the time of his capture). The terrorists, being the sadistic demons that they are, celebrated the occasion with festive music and a parade.
Images of Ariel and Kfir surfaced online this week, capturing hearts and intensifying the outrage over the forces of darkness that snuffed out their brief lives.
A reminder of how barbaric and inhuman these Hamas monsters are. The Bibas family rightly says they don’t believe anything Hamas says, but these children are almost certainly dead at Hamas’ hand. Finally, this week, we will know for sure. https://t.co/KSBW6plvvD
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) February 18, 2025
“Horrific and barbaric,” tweeted U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw. “If Hamas ever invaded the U.S. and kidnapped and killed American toddlers, we would never stop hunting them down. And yet the world acts baffled that Israel went to war over this.”
“Hamas is one of the most vicious, sadistic terrorist groups in history,” agreed pro-life commentator Lila Rose. They kidnap little boys from their beds, murder entire families in their homes, and rape and murder young people at a music festival. Israel is a democratic nation where Muslims, Jews and Christians can live peaceably, seeking to maintain peace and security. It is still shocking to me how many people insist there is a moral equivalence between the two.”
Another X user reacted, “It will forever boggle my mind that there exists an organisation that can kidnap 1 and 3 year old babies, kill them, parade their coffins on stage to cheering crowds of civilians, and still be considered the victims by morons in the west.”
At the time of his release earlier this month, Shiri’s husband, Yarden Bibas, who was also captured on October 7, revealed, “Sadly, my family hasn’t returned to me yet. They are still there. My light is still there, and as long as they’re there, everything here is dark.” “We are still clinging to hope,” another family member said. Unfortunately, after this week, such hopes have been permanently dashed.
Hamas must pay the price.
Meanwhile, the “morons in the west” have made their beds in fantasy land. Actually, it’s worse than that. Most fantasy stories contain unambiguous moral distinctions, including a clear-cut bad guy and a clear-cut good guy. But Hamas’s useful idiots, whether on American college campuses or the anti-Semitic hellhole that exists on social media, have utterly abandoned their moral compass, plunging headlong into a new era of “Lost Cause” apologia. From making concessions to Vladimir Putin to defending Adolf Hitler, many appear to have forgotten the lessons of October 7: that evil — the kind of evil that kidnaps babies from their homes, murders them, and parades their bodies for cheering civilian crowds — exists, is festering all around us, and would like nothing more than to lull us to sleep with naive delusions.
I want to be as specific about my claims as possible:
Jackson Hinkle, an immature social media influencer with over 2.8 million followers on X, recently posted an interview with Hamas leaders, in which he claimed “the strategy [of hostage-taking] has been vindicated,” that Hamas has his “full support,” and “many Americans . . . just love you guys.” (When he’s not genuflecting before the terrorist group responsible for October 7, praising them for their “courage and honor,” Hinkle’s usually posting about his love for Putin, Iran, China, or other terrorist regimes). “Stone Choir,” a growing right-wing “Christian” podcast, claimed it is a “Christian duty . . . to be unapologetically antisemitic” and that “Adolf Hitler’s opposition to the Jews is proof of his Christian faith.” “Jesus Christ is Lord, and Adolf Hitler is His faithful servant,” host Corey J. Mahler blasphemed (once again on X). UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell, in an interview that streamed on — you guessed it — X, confessed, “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy. He fought for his country. He wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out that were destroying his country.”
Let’s not mince words about these men: they’re evil. They’re part of the problem. The world stands on the brink of World War III and a thousand years of darkness, and they would have us believe that history’s most notorious killers weren’t so bad after all. In their arrogance, they consider themselves “courageous.” But capitulation in the face of evil is nothing more than cowardice. Sometimes, the safest place to be is on the side of the tyrant.
True courage never hesitates to renounce evil, whether it’s the slaughter of two innocent Israeli babies or the mass murder of over six million Jews in Nazi Germany. We all want the wars in Europe and the Middle East to end. But at the expense of acquiescence to evil? History reminds us how that will turn out.
This week’s macabre spectacle from Hamas must serve as a wake-up call to the world. We’re not dealing with sane, reasonable men with whom we disagree about the tax code or climate change. We’re dealing with impenitent killers, radicalized terrorists, and modern-day Nazis bent on erasing entire races and nations from the face of the planet.
It’s time we responded accordingly.
