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Hamas’ signaling Friday that it will accept the peace plan President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rolled out last week have raised hopes for an end, once and for all, to the ugly war the terrorist group sparked two years ago Tuesday.
And that, indeed, it will lead to a permanent peace not just in Gaza but across the Middle East: an end to the nearly 80-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict.
Yet even if it does, Jewish pain from the horrific Oct. 7 massacre that ignited the war, and from the antisemitism it unleashed, will long endure.
At 6:30 that morning, with many Israelis still in bed, rockets from Gaza flooded the skies over southern Israel.
Thousands of Hamas terrorists — and Gazan civilians, too — stormed across the border to target innocent Israelis at a music festival and multiple small settlements (kibbutzim).
The attack was utterly unprovoked. Hamas struck in hopes of triggering a larger multi-front war to destroy Israel (as well as thwarting an emerging Israeli-Saudi peace deal).
The savagery was unspeakable: The terrorists raped, butchered, burned and kidnapped hundreds of men, women, children, even babies.
Imagine: Beheading toddlers. Gunning down young folks at a pro-peace music festival. Wiping out entire families in their homes.
Hamas fighters massacred more than 1,200 people that day and kidnapped 251, the worst single-day atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust. (As of last week, 48 hostages, including 28 dead, remained.)
Yet the nightmare was only beginning: Soon, waves of Jew-hatred spread throughout the world.
Only a day after the attack, Oct. 8 — long before Israeli troops even entered Gaza to hunt down the murderers — sickos cheered the terrorists’ barbarism and began condemning Israel.
Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America promoted a protest in Times Square on behalf of Palestinians, where goons stamped on Israeli flags, cheered Hamas and displayed swastikas.
Anti-Israeli protests erupted around the world — on campuses and streets, even in America.
Antisemitic goons targeted Jews for harassment and violence — with many officials, particularly at universities, greenlighting it, much as police in Germany ignored attacks on Jews on Kristallnacht.
They called for the elimination of Israel (“from the river to the sea”) and to “globalize the intifada” — that is, to attack Jews (and other non-believers) everywhere.
Mamdani still refuses to condemn that phrase, or even Hamas. And he’s the frontrunner in New York’s mayoral race!
The events rattled Jews’ faith in America as a safe haven, something they’d long taken for granted.
Nations, even the United States, soon began to demand that Israel stand down — never mind that hostages remained in captivity and Hamas was openly vowing to repeat its Oct. 7 barbarism as soon as it could.
The International Criminal Court issued (illegal) warrants for Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, “balanced’ by ones for Hamas leaders who’d already been killed.
World leaders preposterously accused Israel of committing genocide.
A growing list of nations — including the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Canada just last month — rewarded Hamas’ butchering by recognizing a Palestinian state.
Even President Joe Biden, who had initially expressed “unwavering” support for the Jewish state, soon sought to force Israel to stand down, and held up US arms shipments to the beleaguered Jewish state.
Last Thursday, on Yom Kippur, the most solemn day of the Jewish calendar, a terrorist rammed a car into people and attacked them with a knife at a synagogue in Manchester, England. At least two died in the attack, and three were seriously injured.
Later that day, Britain saw a series of “pro-Palestine” rallies with the usual antisemitic overtones — seeming (at least) to celebrate the synagogue attack.
The hostility toward Hamas’ Jewish victims came as a bitter twist, but an even bigger irony is that it underscored the very need for a state of Israel to protect Jews.
With luck, the Trump plan may finally bring peace to Israel and the region.
But sick Jew-hatred, alas, will long linger, as will the pain that Jews have endured these past years.