A Red Heifer Is the Secret to Understanding the Israel-Hamas War
A Red Heifer Is the Secret to Understanding the Israel-Hamas War Written By Zachary Emmanuel View fullsize Art by Tanzanian Wojak This is a holy war, not a geopolitical conflict. Editor’s Note: Just like everything else on this site, the purpose of this article is not to convince you of a partisan side, but to provide important and largely unreported information. The sources used in our research range from Al Jazeera to Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper to the websites of ultra-religious Messianic Jewish groups. On October 7, Hamas militants launched the most brutal attack on Israel in our lifetimes, “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.” We’ve heard and seen the many grisly details: women and children kidnapped, families gunned down and taken hostage, bodies burned and mutilated. What has gone curiously unreported in Western media—what is strangely missing from Wikipedia entries about the conflict—is why the invasion happened when it did. The average observer either views the attacks as unp...