The following is the Wikipedia entry for the Ma’alot massacre:
The Ma’alot massacre was a Palestinian terrorist attack that occurred on 14–15 May 1974 and involved the hostage-taking of 115 Israelis, chiefly school children, which ended in the murder of 25 hostages and six other civilians. It began when three armed members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) infiltrated Israel from Lebanon. Soon afterwards they attacked a van, killing two Israeli Arab women while injuring a third, and entered an apartment building in the town of Ma’alot, where they killed a couple and their four-year-old son. From there, they headed for the Netiv Meir Elementary School in Ma’alot, where in the early hours of 15 May 1974 they took hostage more than 115 people including 105 children. Most of the hostages were 14- to 16-years-old students from a high school in Safad on a pre-military Gadna field trip spending the night in Ma’alot.
The hostage-takers soon issued demands for the release of 23 Palestinian militants and 3 others from Israeli prisons, or else they would kill the students. The Israeli side agreed, but the hostage-takers failed to get an expected coded message from Damascus. On 15 May, minutes before the 18:00 deadline set by the DFLP for killing the hostages, the Sayeret Matkal commandoes stormed the building. During the takeover, the hostage-takers killed children with grenades and automatic weapons. Ultimately, 25 hostages, including 22 children, were killed and 68 more were injured.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Anybody who thinks the Palestinians want peace at all are deluded. I have said it before (I can be as repetitive in my speech as the Palestians are with barbarism) and I’ll say it again. They do not even want victory, “From the River to the Sea” but an eternal jihad. If Israel falls Europe is next. All of Europe.
This is the selfish reason I want Palestinianism to be crushed as an ideology. It’s nihilism. It isn’t interested in building anything.
When the Israelis withdrew from Gaza in 2005, followed by the election of Hamas, what happened? They smashed up farms, greenhouses and other resources. They focused on using aid to build a vast infrastructure of tunnels, accumulated weapons, all to initiate attacks on Israel.
Yes, some of the Gaza population, most obviously children, aren’t to blame for the monstrosity that Islamism represents. But I find it very difficult to find much sympathy for a large number of the population.
On this day of infamy two years ago, it’s important to realise that this is what the scum of Hamas desire for Israel, and what their cheerleaders want for the West.