In an op-ed for El País Uruguay, B’nai B’rith International Director of Latin American Affairs Eduardo Kohn condemns Iran-backed Hamas as murderers, and praises Latin American democracies for forcefully calling out Hamas’ terrorism.

Read in El País Uruguay in Spanish.

One of the leaders of the Hamas terrorist group declared on Sunday, October 8, in front of the press, that he thanked Iran for the amount of high-caliber weapons and logistical support that allowed them to enter Israel 24 hours earlier and kill 700 civilians so far (there will be more deaths from the seriously injured), leave more than 2,000 injured (seriously, mutilated) and kidnap more than 100 people, including a Holocaust survivor, women, children, the elderly and several foreigners who were having fun at a music festival.

This terrorist theft with a massacre that the Jewish people did not suffer since the Holocaust in one day, shows that the songs of “death to Israel” in the so-called Iranian Parliament on Saturday is something announced by the fundamentalist dictatorship from the UN podium and not heard by the abominable indifference of accomplices and faint-hearted, and executed by one of its terrorist groups that has always said that it exists only to exterminate the Jewish people as the only objective, they were threats destined to materialize.

Israel will make all the balances it needs as a democracy in due course. Today there is a war, Hamas launches missiles only against civilians and it will not be brief the time it will take for Israel, with the right to self-defense, to restore security to its citizens attacked by terrorists.

Democracies have reacted vigorously against the barbarism of Hamas. Those democracies know that to talk about war crimes, a country must be accused because terrorism is nothing other than hate, destruction and kill, just kill. You already know who is behind the war crimes. Are they going to do as in Ukraine, leaving the one who destroys it sitting comfortably in the Security Council with a veto?

Latin American democracies have been forceful condemning Hamas. And the dictatorships have also been clear supporting the murderers. Not all democracies are obvious. And not all parties within democracies. Uruguay is no exception. The Democrats with the government at the helm did not hesitate. Others have believed that 700 civilians killed and the kidnapping and humiliation of women and children is not enough to qualify Hamas as a terrorist.

At this time of the story you have to be clear and take care of it. Facts are going to happen that we can’t even imagine as a result of hatred and everyone will be where they chose to be. But it doesn’t come back from what has been done and said today. He puts on his face and assumes himself.