A Year of Revelations

The Free Press ^ | 7 October 2024 | Bari Weiss

[Rummyfan]

‘We expected Hamas to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate it.’

Someone asked me the other day how I planned to commemorate October 7. I found myself speechless, befuddled by the question.

How do you offer an elegy when the war is not yet over—and 101 hostages, those still alive and the bodies of the murdered, are not yet home? How do you remember a catastrophe when it is still unfolding? How do you mark a past event that feels as though it was a prelude to a much deeper darkness, whose dimensions we are still discovering? How do you look at something with a sense of distance when it has revealed so much, so close to home?

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In October 2023—just in that first month—George Washington University students projected the words “Glory to Our Martyrs” and “Free Palestine from the River to the Sea” in giant letters on campus buildings. At Cooper Union in Manhattan, Jewish students had to hide in the library from a mob pounding on the door. At Columbia, Professor Joseph Massad called the slaughter “awesome.” At Cornell, Professor Russell Rickford said it was “energizing” and “exhilarating.” At Princeton, hundreds of students chanted “globalize the intifada,” which can only mean: open season on Jews worldwide. At NYU, students held posters that read “keep the world clean,” with drawings of Jewish stars in garbage cans.

Over the weeks that followed, posters with the faces of the hostages were put up on lampposts and bulletin boards in campuses and cities across North America and Europe. And young people—and sometimes not so young—started tearing them down.

At first, we rationalized this by assuming that the people tearing them down were abnormal. But there were more than a few of them, including college professors. And they were gleeful.

[SaveFerris]

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Now, this is at Armageddon, at the end of the 7 years of Tribulation; the 7 years of ‘Peace and Security’

But the world is headed there. And nothing will stop it from coming. This is the burgeoning outcome building almost every single day of the week.

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Zechariah 12:1-3 King James Version

1 The burden of the Word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the Earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a Cup of Trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a Burdensome Stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the Earth be gathered together against it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah+12%3A1-3&version=KJV

[oldtech]

Wondering if those who have glorified this behavior against Jews will feel that way in the day when something similar is used against Them?

[SaveFerris]

[At Columbia, Professor Joseph Massad called the slaughter “awesome.” At Cornell, Professor Russell Rickford said it was “energizing” and “exhilarating.” At Princeton, hundreds of students chanted “globalize the intifada,” which can only mean: open season on Jews worldwide. At NYU, students held posters that read “keep the world clean,” with drawings of Jewish stars in garbage cans.]

Brother Dave Hunt (RIP) always expected all Jews to return to Israel. I can’t remember which verse it was that he was using. Dave made this comment 25-30 years ago.

But at that time, Dave was suggesting worldwide persecution of them would make it happen. I remember him making the comment but I can’t recite it fully. Been too long.

[SaveFerris]

My particular guess (IMHO that is) is that they will ride this wave all the way to Armageddon, for the majority that will still be alive.

Time will tell.

[sauropod]

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