It has frequently been noted that the kibbutzniks whom Hamas attacked on October 7, 2023 were for the most part leftists, believers in “two states, one Jewish and one Palestinian, existing side by side in peace and security,” and prepared to entertain some kind of “land-for-peace” deal as believers in the essential decency of the […]
Mental Torture: Hostages Forced to Read the Qur’an
Those Hamas kidnappers, it turns out, came up with a fiendish form of psychological torture for their Israeli hostages. As Robert Spencer noted briefly here, according to the four hostages just freed in a daring raid in Nuseirat, they were required by their captors to read the Qur’an. Could a more sinister form of mental […]