“Oct 7 2023”

With the anniversary of the Hamas atrocities of October 7 falling on Monday, Gaza reduced to rubble and graves, 101 Israelis still in captivity and the streets of Canada’s cities routinely erupting in the worst spasms of Jew hatred in living memory, cause for hope is sparse and meagre.

But some hope can be taken in the evidence that after a year of war, Israel appears to be winning. Although backed by the torture-state alliance of Iran, China and Russia, the heavily-armed Islamist forces arrayed against the Jewish state, from Lebanon to Yemen and beyond, have not prevailed.

Definitely winning the war to date.

They should finish off Iran and that may not require a full scale confrontation, decapitation may create enough breathing room for citizens to rise up.

One was killed and at least nine wounded in a terror attack after shots were heard at the Beersheba Central Bus Station in southern Israel on Sunday, the police said, qualifying the incident as a terror attack.

Magen David Adom (MDA) said its paramedics were providing medical treatment at the scene to nine individuals who had been wounded with various degrees of injuries, with reports of more.

Sunday BREAKING

Horrifying terror attack at McDonald's in Beersheba Israel.

Caught on Video. Female police officer murdered, right

Killer is Israeli Muslim pic.twitter.com/6ZOPLKDAJ7

— Ukraine DiaryIRAN ATTACK Latest‼️ (@UkraineDiary) October 6, 2024

Protesters brandishing banners in support of the terror group Hezbollah marched through central London on Saturday.

Police made more than a dozen arrests as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian activists staged a demonstration through the capital to Whitehall, ahead of the first anniversary of the Oct 7 attacks by Hamas on southern Israel.

In the crowd were several marchers who held placards and banners expressing their support for Hezbollah, the terror group that has controlled swathes of Beirut and southern Lebanon and launched repeated attacks on Israel in recent weeks.

Thousands take part in today’s Free Palestine march from Russel Square, London heading to Whitehall. pic.twitter.com/6upCnSM543 pic.twitter.com/EhMo5CDCfe

— Dr.Ahmed A.,MD,ABPsych (@Ah_Magus) October 5, 2024

The British rock band Pink Floyd’s entire catalog of hits has reportedly suffered a stunning devaluation of $100 million, thanks in large part to frontman Roger Waters’ outbursts against Israel, including his outrageous claim that the October 7 Hamas terror attacks were justified.

NAHAL OZ BASE, Israel—It was about 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 7 when dozens of heavily armed men burst into view on Maya Desiatnik’s video screen. The Israeli soldier, charged with monitoring a stretch of the Gaza frontier, picked up the radio at her side and raised the alarm.

“There is a Turkish knight!” she said, using the Israeli military code word for an incursion into Israeli territory. Palestinian militants were breaching the border.

For months, Desiatnik, now 20 years old, and her colleagues in the observer unit, all of them young women, had warned their superiors repeatedly—and with increasing vehemence—that the Islamist militant group Hamas seemed to be preparing a major attack. Their concerns were dismissed.

When we think of antisemitism, Canada is not the first place that comes to mind. However, the country, known for its cosmopolitan citizenry, beautiful landscapes, and high quality of life, has increasingly emerged as a place in which Jews are fearful.

Adam from Vancouver needs to think twice about attending synagogue for Rosh Hashanah. “Walking around Vancouver, you would think that we live next door to the Gaza Strip. Pro-Hamas protests and bomb threats to Jewish institutions make me feel uncomfortable disclosing I am Jewish and for my own safety.”

We are approaching the one year anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Filmmaker Igal Hecht created the film “The Killing Roads” for you to see for free in its entirety.

Watch it now. Viewer discretion advised. @TKR_moviepic.twitter.com/gVTGiUh32E

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 5, 2024

h/t MP & Patti Jo

Maybe a 4K crowd at its height?

#WATCH: | Massive Protests Are Taking Place World-Wide Including Toronto Marking 365 Days Of G3n03ID3 In Palestine Which Is Now Expanding Into Lebanon pic.twitter.com/jnPzsi9eij

— Habibi6ixtv (@habibi6ixtv) October 5, 2024

This is shameful. These people are calling for the end of the Jewish state and Toronto allows it. Can you imagine calling for the end of "Palestine"? https://t.co/hlgXkWtvEV

— Diane Weber Bederman (@dianebederman) October 5, 2024

They are now starting to march up Yonge Street to the Israeli embassy. The say they want to show Toronto "shock and awe"

This has to stop.#TakeBackCanada pic.twitter.com/GTUerWhUGu

— Jon Fraser (@JonFraserTF) October 5, 2024

Beautiful and massive rally for Palestine in Toronto. Hands off Lebanon and end the genocide in Gaza! pic.twitter.com/ddoiJoU0yS

— Spring Magazine (@springmagca) October 5, 2024

Sunday and Monday may see larger crowds.

During the last four years since the Biden-Harris administration assumed office, the world has been marked by escalating global crises. One of the most significant has been the war against Israel, in which, a year ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas, a proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched a brutal attack on Israel. The assault consisted of massacres, rapes, torture, beheadings, burnings-alive, kidnapping and other crimes against humanity.

Possibly emboldened by the perceived weakness of the US, since its surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021, and its constant appeasement of China, Iran, for the first time, took direct military action on April 13, 2024 by launching hundreds of attack drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Israel.

I always assumed the anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel would get ugly. Too many in the anti-Israel crowd either don’t believe it happened, or believe the death toll was exaggerated, or think it was a false-flag event. And of course there are some who seem pretty much OK with what actually happened.

I doubt we will see the Hamas loving crowds we did a year ago but I don’t think that means support for Israel’s annihilation has lessened.

Some will have become circumspect fearing real world consequences such as job loss and a few may have renounced their beliefs.

What surprised me last year was the unabashed hatred of the “anti-Zionists”  and also how deep it ran within our institutions. 

Few will consider their support for a Free Palestine a citizenship test.

They believe themselves the best of humanity.

Speak of the Devil – Looks like London is having a large turnout.

One year on from the 7 October Hamas attacks, tough questions are still being asked within Israel about the deadliest day in its history, when the country’s powerful army was caught off guard and swiftly overwhelmed.

The BBC has heard accounts given to families of what happened at one military base that guarded the border with Gaza.

The Nahal Oz base was overrun by Hamas gunmen on the morning of 7 October and more than 60 Israeli soldiers are reported to have been killed – with others taken hostage.