About those Hamas videos from Oct 7...

 

A Quora post by 

Diana Dubrawsky

 asks about the Hamas GoPro videos of their massacre of Israeli families on Oct 7, 2023:

(24) Do you think that the public will ever be able to see the 43 minutes of Hamas Video they filmed on Oct 7 during their attack and if so, would the Hamas and Palestinian supporters still be as passionate if they viewed it? - Quora   Quoting:

I have not seen it. I have been advised, from a much older and wiser person who HAS seen it, NOT to go looking for it (I believe it’s possible to find the raw footage—not the IDF compilation—online). He still does not sleep at night; he sees it every time he closes his eyes.

I know a young person who serves as a lone soldier in the IDF. They haven’t seen the footage; they were deployed to the Gaza border on October 7th, and documented the evidence of the Hamas attack at Kibbutz Be’ri a few days later. That young person now has nightmares and a diagnosis of PTSD.

No, I don’t believe the Israeli government will ever make that film available to the general public; and I believe that if they did, the apologists for Hamas’s brutal atrocities would simply look away, and say it wasn’t real. They know the truth; they don’t WANT to believe it.

ADDENDUM: ‘When Leaders Fail’, Eliot Cohen, The Atlantic:

“That film,” my friend Mick Ryan, a retired Australian general, said to me, “should be shown to all senior national-security officials and military officers. It is the most profound demonstration of what happens in the wake of slovenly strategic thinking.”

The occasion was a visit to Israel with a small group of military and national-security experts. The film was a 47-minute compilation of videos taken from dashcams, body cameras, and closed-circuit-television cameras. Some smartphone clips came from the perpetrators of the October 7 attacks in Israel, who delighted in the footage, and others from victims documenting their last moments. It is the most horrifying thing I have ever watched. It includes subtitles but no commentary on scenes of murder, mutilation, and bestial cruelty. It shows a beheading, performed before a cheering Gazan mob, and the despairing cries of sobbing, blinded, blood-smeared orphans. And it concludes with a chilling fact: This was only a tenth of the mayhem wrought on Israel that day…

To understand the dimensions of October 7, Americans should apply a rule of 30—Israel’s population being about one-30th that of the United States. So imagine that, in a single day, pitiless enemies had attacked the length of one of our borders, killing some 35,000 Americans, 9,000 of them soldiers—some surprised in their sleep, some fighting heroically in doomed bands of fewer than a dozen. A dozen simultaneous 9/11s, if you will. Imagine some 6,500 hostages taken, and 3 million to 6 million people displaced from their home along America’s borders. And instead of hundreds of rapes and mutilations, thousands. Imagine, too, that the ensuing war has already taken another 5,000 or 6,000 soldiers’ lives, with perhaps 10 times as many wounded, and no end in sight.”