Anniversary of Evil

One year ago this morning, Americans woke up to some of the most horrific images ever captured in the age of ubiquitous handheld cameras. We saw charred bodies; children’s beds drenched in blood; women stripped down, abducted, paraded through cheering crowds in the streets of Gaza.

An army of Hamas terrorists had flooded into Israel from Gaza under the cover of thousands of rockets. They butchered babies, they raped women, they burned homes to the ground, they massacred attendees of a music festival, and they took hostages ranging from a nine-month-old baby to an 86-year-old man. It took days to realize the scope of the horror — 1,200 dead and 251 taken hostage. Roughly 100 remain in captivity, with dozens of them believed dead (their loved ones denied the ability to properly grieve).