Today is Tuesday, October the 24th, 2023. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison

and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. Mosab Hassan Yusuf is the son of a founding

Hamas leader. In response to the October 7th atrocities, he told a reporter,

quote, I was born at the heart of Hamas leadership, and I know them very well. They don't care

for the Palestinian people. They do not regard the human life. He went on to explain,

Hamas is not a national movement. Hamas is a religious movement with a goal to establish an Islamic state.

In Yusuf's view, Hamas does not serve the Palestinian people. Hamas serves Iran.

They are using Palestinian people as a human shield."

Why then are so many pro-Palestinian advocates in the West supporting them?

Why is such support likely to escalate as Israel escalates its response to Hamas' atrocities?

Yesterday, journalists were shown horrific footage from Hamas' October 7 massacre,

including scenes of murder, decapitation, and

torture. Some of the 200 in attendance burst into tears as they viewed the images. While Hamas released

two more hostages yesterday, it is holding more than 200, one of them a 17-year-old girl in a wheelchair. Israel has found Hamas files with instructions

for making a cyanide-based weapon. Nonetheless, world opinion is inexorably turning against Israel

and the Jewish people, blaming them for the atrocities committed against them. A United Nations official likened Israel's

response to Nazi's actions in the Holocaust. A doctor in the UK posted a picture of a swastika

alongside the Israeli flag on her official Instagram page. Organizations funded by European Union

praised Thomas' terrorists for acting with quote-unquote

courage and sacrifice. This, while anti-Semitism continues to rise in Canada, Germany, across Europe,

and in America, where Jews are rushing to buy guns to protect themselves, a rally supporting

Israel planned for downtown Chicago,

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