Two years ago, the world changed. And Front Page Magazine was there.
In articles like ‘Israel’s 9/11’ by Bruce Bawer and Robert Spencer’s ‘The Biden Regime Should Admit the Real Causes of the Jihad Against Israel’, our best writers cut to the chase and told the important truths about was happening in the days that followed.
“Few places on the planet – certainly few places so small – have been so devoted to destruction,” Bruce Bawer wrote of Gaza. “And the more money they get from the people they hate, the more determined they seem to be to use it to destroy those very people.”
Robert Spencer laid out the Islamic theology behind the terror. “It is because of such views that Palestinian jihadis rape, torture, and murder Israeli civilians and then celebrate having done so. It is the resolute refusal of the Biden regime to acknowledge the Islamic aspect of the conflict that leads it to continue to prescribe the wrong solutions for that conflict, and to pressure Israel when it should be pressuring the Palestinians. Twenty-two years after 9/11, the jihadis’ best friends are in the White House.”
“No form of war is more sacred than that of civilization against savagery. It is these wars that made Christianity and Judaism, not to mention all the ideas of western civilization, as well as those of Asia and India, possible. This is once again the defining struggle of our age,” I wrote in Savages. “Either civilization or the savages will prevail. Any attempt at a middle ground is suicide.”
“Hamas did not act out of the ordinary, but in sync with its people. In truth, there is something so terribly wrong in Gaza that the United States should keep as far away as it can from such barbarity—and hope that it too feels the same about America and keeps to itself,” Victor Davis Hanson wrote.
Later in October, I showed how the Hamas attack was able to take Israel by surprise. And I became the first person in English language media to discuss the Hamas ‘ceasefire’ that had existed before the attack.
A week before its attack Hamas agreed to another truce with Israel. The agreement negotiated by Qatar, Egypt and the United Nations traded an end to border attacks for more imports, a bigger fishing zone and more work permits that allowed 20,000 Gaza Muslims to enter Israel.
Qatar, a state sponsor of Hamas and an ally of the United States, claimed that it had “succeeded in de-escalating the situation in the Gaza Strip by mediating an understanding.”
Hamas ended the border riots and Israelis went into the Sukkot holiday with an apparent calm. The Israeli army and security forces continued to focus on the West Bank, where much of the violence appeared to be coming from, rather than the Gaza Strip which seemed quiet.
But the border attacks and the negotiated ceasefire had all been part of a feint. Hamas had been working on a large-scale attack for two years.
As there is talk of yet another ‘deal’ and ‘ceasefire’, it’s worth remembering that Oct 7 was preceded by a ceasefire. And by attempts to ‘normalize’ Gaza by bringing large numbers of Gazans to work in Israel.
Last year, Secretary of State Blinken addressed a J Street even and told the anti-Israel lobby that the Biden administration had pushed Israel to “improve the lives of Palestinians” by, among other things, “issuing thousands of work permits for Palestinians in Gaza.
In late September, mere weeks before Hamas launched an invasion of Israel and massacred over a thousand people, Israel opened the main border crossing with Hamas and allowed Arab Muslims from Gaza to once again enter the country. This was part of a deal with Hamas that increased the number of work permits and allowed more imports and exports, in exchange for peace. The violence stopped and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Those ‘work permits’ were used to scout Israel and map out targets for the attack.
Even before Hamas campus supporters were making headlines, Sara Dogan, handling the Freedom Center’s campus program, was profiling them.
After Hamas terrorists butchered Israelis, raped and killed teenage girls at a musical festival, and caged children as hostages, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) called it a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance.”
SJP, a campus hate group backed by Hamas’ Muslim Brotherhood parent organization, which has over 200 chapters in North America, declared that, Jewish “settlers are not civilians” and are fair game for the atrocities committed by Hamas against women and children.
“Just as Israel realizes that there is no living with Hamas killers, so the West is learning that it can no longer sustain universities that despise the culture that nourishes it or Middle Eastern immigrants, visiting students, and residents that use the gift of freedom and tolerance to promote their abhorrent anti-Semitism, violence, intolerance—and, yes, hatred of their generous hosts,” Victor Davis Hanson wrote in November 2023.
I laid out the Nazi Roots of Hamas, Jamie Glazov wrote about Hamas and the Jihadist Psychopath, I broke down how the world had saved Hamas 30 years ago and Hugh Fitzgerald profiled the media presence on the ground on Oct 7. And taking part in it.
Such was our coverage from the very beginning.
In the two years that followed, the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Front Page Magazine continued to forthrightly publish some of the best coverage of the conflict to be found on the internet. And we still do.
At a time when some conservative influencers take Qatar money to champion Islamic and Islamic terrorists, while denouncing Israel, Front Page has followed the same moral north star as we did before and after 9/11 that led to us being denounced as “Islamophobes’, censored and investigated.
When the Voice of America denounced us as a ‘hate group’ for our coverage of Oct 7, we fought back, exposed the fact that an Afghan ex-Jihadist was the one writing this propaganda and played a role in the shutdown of VOA.
Because we’ve never been afraid of a fight. And we’ve never been afraid of telling the truth.
We hope that you will keep reading us, supporting us and sharing our work.