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They Believed in Peace. Hamas Stole Their Empathy.
New York Times ^ | 30th October 2023 | Iris Zaki

Posted on 10/31/2023 2:21:29 AM PDT by Cronos

After Hamas attacked their country this month, many Israelis fled to hotels, where they sought some version of safety. There, they’ve been processing their trauma as they move from that harrowing morning into a new world. In the Opinion video above, filmed in the days after the attack, survivors reflect on what they lost, whom they blame and what’s next — for them and for Israel.

Despite being at war, polling from the Israel Democracy Institute suggests that Israelis are more optimistic about the future of their country now than they’ve been at any other point this year. Still, for the residents of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where more than 100 Israelis were killed, any optimism they had before the attack has been replaced by an uncertain future. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: iriszaki; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes
From the video

Older lady: "I truly believed that the people on the other side were not terrorists, they want to live in peace like me. But now we can't trust anyone"

Mother: "I always believed a mother on this side of the borer was like a mother ont he other side.... I don't know if I can go back to believing that"

Young lady: "I am a leftist to my core. In previous rounds of conflict when I would see videos of mothers and children in Gaza, I would cry. Really, my heart would break. Now I see it, and, I don't have that empathy. It's not in me anymore."

1 posted on 10/31/2023 2:21:29 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

A wake-up call for liberals everywhere!

Trusting the left will result in a 2nd Jewish holocaust because the Democrats and the left worldwide want Jews dead.


2 posted on 10/31/2023 2:25:41 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Cronos

Frog and scorpion syndrome


3 posted on 10/31/2023 2:35:56 AM PDT by 11th_VA (<><)
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To: Cronos

“Young lady: “I am a leftist to my core. “


I think we are getting to the source of the problem here.


4 posted on 10/31/2023 3:05:08 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Cronos

I never could understand what there was to “free” in Gaza or the West Bank. Israel has not occupied Gaza or the West Bank since 2007. No Israeli civilian ever dare to go to either hellhole for fear of being killed. Each has their own government and crap economy subsidized by the Christian/secular West whom they hate and has Islamic supporters throughout the Mideast who do not want the vermin in their own countries.
And Israel is a tiny country with a tiny population who managed to build a first world economy from nothing in the midst of a sea of Islamic who have zero interest in peace.


5 posted on 10/31/2023 3:10:26 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Cronos

Paywall


6 posted on 10/31/2023 3:10:56 AM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: Cronos

Wishful thinking. The cognitive dissonance they are feeling must be intense.


7 posted on 10/31/2023 3:46:57 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger

“Paywall.”

Yeah.

An I no gona pay.


8 posted on 10/31/2023 3:48:46 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Cronos
Leftist fools who are a close second after Jews to be hated and killed by Muslims, are supporting them.

The translations of the Holy Quran being sold to non Muslims have been altered to make Islam look like a religion of peace.

Read a true translation and you will see this has little to do with politics.

In our world what we call terrorism, in their world is just Muslims doing as the Holy Quran commands them.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16955

This is a link to a free book on Gutenberg.org, three translations by 3 Imams of the Holy Quran side by side.
9 posted on 10/31/2023 3:52:00 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The left want everyone dead, not just Jews.


10 posted on 10/31/2023 4:18:23 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: Fai Mao

Well, anyway that disagrees with their worldview at any rate.


11 posted on 10/31/2023 4:50:24 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Cronos

Who would’ve thought we’d see a pogrom in Russia in this day and age?


12 posted on 10/31/2023 4:52:17 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America and Israel.)
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To: Fai Mao
"The left want everyone dead, not just Jews." Except themselves, of course...
13 posted on 10/31/2023 5:32:36 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: Cronos
Hitler and his National Socialist cohorts were Leftists too.

The Nazis weren't stopped in WW2. They were just relocated to the United States and integrated into the Democrat Party.

14 posted on 10/31/2023 5:33:39 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: 11th_VA

BTTT


15 posted on 10/31/2023 6:00:27 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: ifinnegan

An I no gona pay.

Well, to be honest, I think every US taxpayer is already paying.


16 posted on 10/31/2023 6:45:05 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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