How can you stand by the murderers, demonstrate next to them?
There was a Tatar raid, the Mongol-Tatar armies racing through our country killed everyone they found. Europeans killed each other for their faith in religious wars. After the ten million dead (mainly combat soldiers) of World War I, everyone vowed: never again. Lenin and Bolshevism won in Russia, killing "the class enemy" and everyone who did not side with them indiscriminately.
Then came Hitler and Nazism, he murdered a good six million people purely on the basis of origin, but he killed everyone who opposed the Horde's ideals. His opponent, Stalin, primarily decimated his own people or sent them to the hell of the Gulag, as well as everyone who opposed him. In Cambodia, the Maoist-Communist Khmer Rouge exterminated two million fellow citizens out of political fanaticism. There were further genocides, in Rwanda nearly a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus became victims of the tribal antagonism.
But all this inhumanity was condemned by contemporaries - or posterity who learned the facts - in the strongest terms, and if it was possible, they punished the perpetrators.
There was no genocide in Hungary in 1956, the Soviet troops "only" shot the insurgents and the residential buildings. At that time, the entire civilized world really sympathized with the Hungarians, they protested by our side, they helped as much as they could. Tens of thousands of naive communists left the communist parties.
And what do we see today? The fanatics of the Arab terrorist organization Hamas, stripped of their humanity, murdered the Jewish population indiscriminately, not sparing women, children, and the disabled. It is also unacceptable in my eyes that not a few people understand and even approve of the Russian aggression committed against Ukraine and turn a blind eye to the war crimes of the Russian army. But I can't find words, seeing that
in European capitals and American universities, not only Arabs, but well-to-do citizens protest alongside child-killing terrorists.
There is reason to feel sorry for the fate of the Palestinian Arabs. But on the part of the Jews, in the first half of the 1990s, the prime minister and foreign minister of Israel, Rabin and Peres, made a fair offer to end the conflict. Tragically, Arafat, who led the Palestinian Arabs at the time, did not accept the "territory for peace" offer, and Rabin was assassinated by one of his own extremists. Since then, the hatred has only grown, and both sides are responsible for this. But there is no explanation, much less excuse, for what Hamas members committed in the early hours of October 7.
How can you stand by the murderers, demonstrate next to them? Governments are powerless in the face of this, the "silent majority" dare not stand up against disgraceful behavior? Where else is the world sinking in inhumanity?
The author is the former foreign minister of Hungary.
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