I know the past few days have been really hard to watch. I know this show has been really difficult

to watch and to listen to. And so I want to take a moment to explain why I'm showing you all this

video and playing all the audio and showing you all the pictures of the atrocities that the terrorist

group Hamas has taken and released. Why I'm showing you the abduction of raped women and the

kidnapping of families and the murder and burning of children.

So there's a reason I'm doing this because there is an intellectual self-centeredness that

predominates among a lot of us in the West.

We think everybody thinks like us.

So we see somebody do something truly evil and we think to ourselves, well, that is terrible.

But the only reason I would do something like that is if something

truly awful happened to me. After all, people are generally reasonable, generally peaceable,

generally decent, everyone I know is. So, what awful circumstance could force someone into such

terrible evil behavior? We think, well, if only someone had just made a few concessions,

dismantled a few settlements, offered a little more land. After all, we all want the same thing, right?

Well, no.

No, we don't.

That is the point.

We can all tell ourselves these comforting little lies before you see the pictures of what true evil does, but you can't tell those lies to yourself after you see the pictures, after you see the videos, after you listen to the audio,

because here's the thing.

Nothing anyone has ever done to you or could ever do to you would cause you to do these

things.

No territorial dispute would cause you to butcher babies.

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