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Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article

written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. This headline caught my eye over

the weekend. If Hamas is allowed to survive, their web of terror will threaten us all.

The subtitle warns, it's not just Jews who are in grave danger when terror groups like Hamas grow in strength and number.

The writer is responding to reports that seven people were arrested in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands last week,

on suspicion of planning attacks

against Jewish institutions in Europe.

Four of the seven were suspected Hamas members.

The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, quote,

In recent years, and even more so after the murderous attack on October the 7th,

Hamas strives to expand its operational capabilities around the world and in Europe in particular,

in order to realize its ambitions to hit Israel, Jewish, and Western targets at any cost."

A British columnist citing the rise of anti-Semitism after the October 7th invasion warns,

if recent protests or anything to go by, then we may be uniquely vulnerable to this terrorist threat.

If calls for jihad are taken literally with young men believing they should fight a holy war on our streets,

then we may face the worst terrorist threat since al-Qaeda or ISIS.

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