Oct 8, 2026 · 39 min · 10 segments
Three years ago today, Hamas filmed themselves committing the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust and then celebrated it. I've spent this anniversary thinking about what happened next…
Ami KozakHost
When it comes to the battle of good versus evil, sometimes people are very uncomfortable with such a dichotomy, and they're very uncomfortable with the existence of both elements.
There are people that don't want to accept that such a world exists with such depravity in it because it means you have to face it.
That's the illusion that a lot of people construct for themselves because it's easier to believe something manufactured like that than to actually accept reality.
In the long run, you know, as people get some distance from this, I think the truth will bear out.
irrational arguments appeals to emotion they always win in the short run think about the risk and cost benefit analysis of someone being presented with images of war is it in their interest if they know nothing about such images and if they know nothing about the context of what's going on when they're shown images of war to default of course they default to sympathy and you know drawing a conclusion that you know it's in their best incentive if they're ignorant to just presume that it's unjust that it's wrong because suffering is wrong who wants gratuitous suffering nobody but the core confusion here is the context that what you're seeing in gaza is a response to aggression not an act of aggression everybody forgets this Everybody forgets this.
When it comes to the battle of good versus evil, sometimes people are very uncomfortable with such a dichotomy, and they're very uncomfortable with the existence of both elements.
There are people that don't want to accept that such a world exists with such depravity in it because it means you have to face it.
That's the illusion that a lot of people construct for themselves because it's easier to believe something manufactured like that than to actually accept reality.
In the long run, you know, as people get some distance from this, I think the truth will bear out.
irrational arguments appeals to emotion they always win in the short run think about the risk and cost benefit analysis of someone being presented with images of war is it in their interest if they know nothing about such images and if they know nothing about the context of what's going on when they're shown images of war to default of course they default to sympathy and you know drawing a conclusion that you know it's in their best incentive if they're ignorant to just presume that it's unjust that it's wrong because suffering is wrong who wants gratuitous suffering nobody but the core confusion here is the context that what you're seeing in gaza is a response to aggression not an act of aggression everybody forgets this Everybody forgets this.
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