The Hamas invasion was designed to shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead. There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both. Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street. In fact, the closest parallel to the sort of methods...