. . . It’s Only Juden
On October 7, armed homicidal Hamas terrorists attacked the Tribe of Nova music festival in Israel. They killed at least 260 attendees.
It would be nice to be able to say that the massacre evoked universal condemnation. Unfortunately, that is not possible. While there has been a great outcry against the perpetrators of the act, some groups have found it a perfect occasion to celebrate the cause that the murderers espoused. Here’s a “die-in” staged at Harvard University:
While the protesters held signs bewailing the loss of Palestinian lives, the fact that the initiators of the conflict were Palestinians and that the victims of the massacre were Jews was (not so) mysteriously omitted.
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Almost exactly six years ago, on October 1, 2017, another attack on a music festival occurred. Shots rained down on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, ensconced in a room high up in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, fired more than 1,000 rounds into the 22,000-person crowd. Sixty people were killed and more than 800 wounded.
Paddock died of a self-inflicted gunshot. He left no message behind explaining his actions. The Clark County Sheriff stated,
"What we have been able to answer are the questions of who, what, when, where and how... what we have not been able to definitively answer is why Stephen Paddock committed this act.”*
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Stephen Paddock’s Mistake
Half-a-dozen years after his infamous act, Stephen Paddock’s name does not rest on the tip of anybody’s tongue. Unlike, say, Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who is remembered in history, Paddock espoused no cause when he unleashed death from his hotel window. If Paddock had left behind a statement supporting—or denouncing—some cause or other, his name would probably be celebrated by Harvard students at an annual die-in. Instead, those students have to settle for the Hamas assassins and their crimson bloodshed.
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