What happened on Oct 7 and why? What is Gaza and the West Bank? Understanding the history of Israel and Palestine :

Warning, the video I'm about to show you is extremely graphic. This is what Palestinian Arab Hamas terrorists did to Israeli citizens in some American citizens three years ago on October 7th. They killed women and children and kidnapped and starved innocent civilians. And then this was the response of the Palestinians. And these were the cheers of a terrorist and his Palestinian father. Oh, they're all in the same country. I'm not a bad guy. I'm a bad guy. It's rabbit. It's rabbit. This is the cause that the left has been championing now for three years. So before we go any further, I thought I just give a quick history of how the heck we got here in the first place because when you dive into the background of this, it makes literally no sense. What is Israel? What is Gaza? And what is the West Bank? You've got ancient Israel, the Kingdom, and then the modern state of Israel since 1948. Read the Bible to get the ancient history. But after Jesus' Rome controls for a while, and then Arab Muslims conquer the region because Islam is a religion of conquest and colonization. Their Ottoman empire basically rolls until World War I. Then you fast forward to the 1940s. Britain takes the area from the Ottomans, but Jews and Arabs both want it. In 1947, the UN says, hey, let's make it a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews say, okay, but the Arabs reject this. Again, they tried a two-state solution in 1947. The Arabs said no. So in 1948, Israel just declares independence, but then their Arab neighbors invade. Egypt ends up holding Gaza. Jordan ends up holding Judea and Samaria, which Jordan eventually starts to call the West Bank. And Israel is Israel right here in the middle. Then in 1967, there's the Sixth Day War. Israel takes Gaza from Egypt and takes the West Bank from Jordan. In 1987, Hamas founded in Gaza, and their only goal is to destroy Israel. And they tried to during the First Intifada, which was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli military. In the 1990s, the Oslo Accords creates this Palestinian authority. Israel gives civil control of Gaza and parts of the West Bank to this Palestinian authority. But then there's a second Intifada against Israel and the terrorists tried to kill them again. So in 2005, Israel's like, okay, we're totally done with this. And they pull every single soldier and every civilian out of Gaza and most parts of the West Bank. And they say, good luck. And then Gaza is given tons of aid and resources to do well and to thrive. But instead in 2006, the Palestinians elected Hamas into power and Hamas built terror tunnels and ruled. It didn't go well. So again, by 2007, Hamas had control of Gaza and the Palestinian Authority had control of the West Bank. And that brought us to 2023 when Hamas launched yet another attack on innocent Israeli citizens that killed 1200 people, most of whom were just chilling out at a music festival. In the worst attack since the Holocaust. 49 Americans were killed, 12 were taken hostage. One of those American hostages was a four year old. It was brutal and devastating in barbaric. That's when Israel launched an attack on Hamas. But the problem is, Hamas and defense uses human shields. So it didn't matter that Israel very successfully minimized human casualties by sending out warnings and evacuating buildings before they struck. People still unfortunately died because Hamas is barbaric and they hide underneath schools and hospitals. The point here is that no one seems to really care about the history of what happened or the reality on the ground. This unfortunately has just become an easy cause to lump in with everything else. Pro-Palestine, pro-trans, anti-cop, anti-ice, anti-America. All of these causes just lumped together in the Omni cause. That's why you see all of these flag-waving idiots with nothing better to do constantly protesting across your feeds. I'm not excusing death. I think all murder is wrong. That's why I'm anti-Hamas, anti-Alshabab and Somalia, anti-terrorists killing Christians in Nigeria. I wish we could just all read more books and go to church and stop being so mean to people just for being successful. I love the West. I love America. I love our allies. And I'm praying for those who lost loved ones on this day three years ago.