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I Was Canceled for a Cartoon

THE GRUESOME DETAILS AND brutal savagery of the October 7 attack launched by Hamas operatives on innocent civilians was shocking to even the most battle-hardened soldiers and war correspondents. Evidence of beheadings, babies shot in their cribs, parents shot in front of their children, entire families massacred, the torture and execution of the elderly, people burned alive and hundreds of young people gunned down while attending a musical festival for peace, were widely reported and verified by video, audio and forensic evidence.

Most people would be horrified. Yet in an interview on Lebanese television, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad hailed the brutal October 7 attack and pledged

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