Why would the Iranian regime, which doesn't believe in rights for its own people,

bother with Palestinian rights and invest in it in billions and billions that it doesn't have

in a years-long expensive multi-front war for Palestinian rights?

Because it has nothing to do with Palestinian rights.

It has to do with allowing Islam to come back as a force in history and proving that they are not far and distant from their God.

Their whole point is to return Islam to God's embrace

and as long as Israel exists, that's obvious evidence.

That's incontrovertible evidence.

Because the Jews are so weak, that's incontrovertible evidence because the Jews are so weak that's incontrovertible evidence that

Islam does not in fact have God's grace.

And so for Hamas on October 7th, the humiliation, the videotaping and the broadcasting live of the humiliation was the core message.

What is the Abraham Accords? Over the last 20 years, the Saudis and the Emirates, the Conservative Sunni regimes Jordan and Morocco,

they have understood the disastrous potential contained in these visions of Islamic renewal.

And these are ideologies that destroy countries and have perpetual war at their heart.

And they've turned on them. As Israel marks 100 days since the Hamas massacre, since the mass slaughter, torture, sexual violence, mutilation and

decapitation of innocent people, burning them after they were dead and

burning others while they were still alive. I say all

this because there is a tendency to become numb to what occurred 100 days ago

as time passes on. And I say this because there are still

136 hostages of all ages that still remain captive in unimaginable conditions for 100 days.

However, those conditions are not unimaginable because we've heard reports from those hostages who've returned what exactly those conditions are like.

Today I resume my weekly conversation with Haviva Reticour from Jerusalem.

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