Pogrom(s)
On October 7, 2023, Hamas broke through the security barriers separating Gaza from southern Israel and committed the greatest massacre of the 21st century. The terrorists posted live videos of their atrocities on social networks, making their horrors instantly accessible to the world. Israelis expected a one-sided wave of support to denounce what has become the darkest day since the creation of the State of Israel, since the Holocaust. But that's not what happened. The shockwaves continue to spread around the world. Pogrom(s) explores the October 7 massacre through the testimony of the men and women who were first on the scene. Those who witnessed the atrocities. Those who picked up the bodies. At least what was left of them. Those who moved between the bodies of women, men and children who had been raped, mutilated and burned alive. Those who saw the unimaginable. Those who will never again be able to close their eyes without remembering. But Pogrom(s) is also an exploration of the events leading up to the October 7 massacre and their aftermath. Pierre Rehov is well versed in the history of the Middle East and its jihadist extremists. He instinctively understands that the origins of evil go back much further in time, and that the copies of Mein Kampf found in the houses of Gaza did not arrive there by chance. He knows where the genocidal Hamas terrorists drew their inspiration. Who guided them and how they were aided and financed. In his investigation, Pierre Rehov traces the alliances between the Nazis and Islamist movements, which took shape as early as the 1940s, and which are rooted in their shared hatred of the Jews. He looks back at the alienation of international organizations from the Palestinian cause, the very ones created to ensure that the events that led to the disappearance of 6 million Jews would never happen again. On Palestinian nationalism, which emerged in the 60s and which, in the context of the Cold War, served as an anchor for a Soviet bloc losing influence in the Middle East. Through the testimonies of historians, Pierre Rehov shows how all these seemingly unrelated events nevertheless served to build the Islamist fundamentalism which, in the 90s, gave rise to the totalitarian and bloodthirsty ideology of Hamas. Over the years, this sprawling terrorist organization has succeeded in integrating and usingWestern values to hijack them and turn them into a highly effective ideological weapon. For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood's henchmen have been infiltrating layers of thepopulation and reappropriating their struggles. Thus, on October 8, 2023, they used the still-warm embers of the massacre in Israel to try to impose their nauseating ideology on a West still too bewildered and surprised to react as it should have.