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THE CASE FOR TRYING HAMAS AS WAR CRIMINALS

OCTOBER 7, 2023, WAS THE BLOODIEST day in Israeli history. As the world now knows, in the early hours that morning, during a Jewish holiday, more than a thousand Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza, aiming to massacre as many people as possible. By the end of the day, they had murdered at least 1,300 Israelis, wounded thousands more and taken about 150 men, women and children as hostages, all with unspeakable savagery.

One of the world’s deadliest terrorist attacks ever, the Hamas assault was also the largest slaughter of Jews since the end of the Holocaust. President Joe Biden, like many world leaders, denounced Hamas’ acts as “pure, unadulterated evil,” but the

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