This is the cover of Life magazine, June 12, 1970. At the time, Life was one of the most important publications in the world. The photograph was taken decades before the Intifadas, before Netanyahu, and before Gaza as we know it today. What was the excuse then for putting rifles in the hands of pre-pubescent children and training them to kill Jews? What kind of movement does that to its own kids? Some people would call it child abuse. It was more than that. It was a plan: a deliberate, generational project to pour Jew-hatred into children while they were still young enough to absorb it as truth. To make it visceral. To make it feel like belonging. You can find similar photos and videos today of children even younger than these “Tiger Cubs,” still being trained the same way. Some of them are almost certainly the children and grandchildren of the boys on that cover. This is what intergenerational hate looks like. This is how a society produces generation after generation with Jew-hatred running through their veins. It was taught early. It was indoctrinated as soon as Israel was reestablished as the indigenous Jewish homeland. . That is part of how October 7 became possible. When Jews have been dehumanized from childhood, young men can rape, behead, torture, and murder civilians and still believe they are doing something righteous. We all want peace. We all want a life that is livable for Israelis and Palestinians. None of this is good. It is painful. But if the people who never stop condemning Israel will not look at what we are actually facing — how old this is, how deep it was planted, how deliberately it was passed from parent to child — it is hard to see how this ends well. You cannot heal what you refuse to name. Image h/t. Bruce Teitelbaum