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In under two weeks, terrorists shouted “Free Palestine” before firebombing Jews in Colorado and executing a young Jewish couple in D.C.
Yet the media buried both stories. Mahmoud Khalil gets months of coverage—but these Jewish victims don’t even get a full day.
I've seen and shared many disturbing videos over the past six months, but I've never seen anything like this.
These were the sights today in New York City. Not in Rafah. Not in Kabul. In New York City.
This is domestic terrorism.
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Sofia and Vladimir Popov, 68 and 74, were murdered by Hamas on October 7th together with a busload of 11 other senior citizens heading to the Dead Sea.
They are survived by their daughter, Tanya, as well as a son-in-law and two granddaughters.
The group was gunned down as their tour bus was stopped in Sderot with a flat tire. When rockets began overhead, the group got off the bus to try to enter a roadside bomb shelter, finding it locked.
A short while later, a truckload of Hamas militants drove by, opening fire on the group and murdering all of them but the bus driver.
The Popovs moved to Israel from Ukraine in 2010 to join their daughter and her family. They settled in Kibbutz Ofakim, where they lived for nearly 15 years alongside their daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren.
Sofia was a construction engineer who loved to crochet, while Vladimir was a car mechanic who worked as a vehicle fleet manager for the Education Ministry and loved gardening and carpentry in his free time.
“My parents loved living in Israel and traveling [around the country],” said Tanya. “Their lives recently started to settle down and that’s when it all ended — and how it ended, it’s so cruel.”
May the memories of Sofia and Vladimir forever be a blessing.
You can’t break into the Capitol while they’re certifying an election to exercise your free speech rights, Rebecca.
Like, it’s legal to bake cupcakes, but if I break into the Smithsonian and use Neil Armstrong’s astronaut helmet as a mixing bowl, I’m going to jail.
My dad, who is a moderate Muslim, finally expressed his concern and asked me, 'Why are you supporting this genocide?'
He mentioned that he's stopped looking at his phone because he can no longer bear to watch videos of Palestinian children being bombed by Israel.
I replied, 'I empathize with the suffering, and it's not easy for me either.'
Then I showed him a photo, and we both agreed on the gravity of the situation in Palestine.
I then informed him that the photo was actually of a Yemeni child pulled from the rubble resulting from a Saudi bombing in Yemen.
I pointed out that Israel has allegedly killed 7,000 Palestinians, while the Saudis have killed at least 150,000 Yemeni Muslims. Some estimates suggest upto 300,000.
How can we call the current conflict a 'genocide' when what the Saudis did is hardly even discussed by Muslims? Don’t get me started on 200,000 Muslims killed by Bashar Al Asad in Syria.
He responded that if that's the case, he also disagrees with what the Saudis did. I replied, 'How convenient. Nearly half a MILLION fellow Muslims have been killed by other Muslims, and you didn't even know about it. Yet when Israel retaliates against a terrorist organization that has killed, raped, and maimed 1,500 of its citizens, the whole Muslim world reacts?'
It seems to have less to do with preserving Muslim lives and more to do with a religious fantasy of hostility toward Jews.