I recently watched Yariv Mozer’s BBC documentary: “Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again”.
Found a YouTube upload (above). It is age restricted, so you’ll have to watch it via YouTube.
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Moving, harrowing and very deeply affecting.
At the end, just before the credits, it said: “October 7th was the deadliest single day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
Jews must process the horrifying trauma & reality that Oct-7 was a repeat of the genocide of the Holocaust. It happened again.
To call it “terrorism”, I think, is to downplay the intent and barbarism. Entire kibbutzim were wiped out ... even pets showered with bullets by hate-filled maniacs.
What is shocking is that Hamas recorded their evil savagery with cameras - they didn’t try to hide the evidence. You can hear them call Israelis dogs ... dragging hostages by their hair ... and smiling as they approach the victims pointing their guns. Their hatred for Jews is insane.
The footage of the dead bodies doesn’t get easier to watch. And I had to look away, and dry my eyes, at their capacity to brutally shoot defenceless and harmless kids trying to get away. Just when you think you’ve seen the worst, there’s more worse yet!
What I found most shocking was just how vulnerable Israelis were. Hamas fighters attacked at 6.29am ... and yet at only around 2pm did the armed forces appear to protect them. People at the Nova Festival sat for hours and hours and hours among dead bodies, or fridges etc waiting and waiting for help, with Hamas maniacs around them.
The part that hit me the hardest was the story of Ruth Peretz and her father Erick Peretz.
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It was a very surreal evening now. I was sitting in a shelter near my house with several other neighboring young families and their children during the Iranian attack on us. There were alarms and loud explosions outside and at the time I was reading your blog. (I read blogs as a form of distraction, the iPhone is always with me, through which I receive notifications about alarms).
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I haven't seen this documentary yet, although I'm sure I've seen many parts of it in the news articles here.
. . . and still people condemn Israel for defending itself. They cannot stop and allow their enemies to rearm. These people want to destroy the Jews and it cannot be allowed to happen.
ReplyDeleteNo way am I going to watch that, Liam. I believe what you say. About 20 years ago, a colleague watched a beheading video out of curiosity and could not get it our of his thoughts for days. I don't even watch mildly violent films or tv stories.
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