Many people around the world are comparing the mass Hamas-led attack on Israel, last week to the infamous 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda on America. Others say it is like the brutal massacre and pogroms the the Jews faced in Europe and elsewhere during the many years of their exile.

Let me push back on those analogies a bit. Maybe it will be just like 9/11 if 49,000 Americans are slaughtered by the terrorists on that dark day. This is the corresponding percentage of victims according to population size.

It might be just like 9/11 if al-Qaeda terrorists went to the homes of the 3,000 American victims to kill them in front of their spouses and children.

Maybe it would be just like 9/11 if al-Qaeda terrorists beheaded children in front of their parents on planes that crashed into the Twin Towers.

Maybe it would be just like 9/11 if al-Qaeda terrorists rape the women—whether healthy, injured or dying—and film their act for their friends.

Perhaps it would be just like 9/11 if, in addition to murdering thousands, al-Qaeda terrorists also would taken hundreds of American men, women, children, infants and elderly hostages back to Afghanistan.

Maybe it would be just like 9/11 if al-Qaeda terrorists hand over an American child hostage to their children as a plaything to beat and humiliate.

So, the Hamas-led attack on Israelis may be a bit like 9/11, but it's not just like 9/11.

It's also not quite like the pogroms and the Nazi massacres on our people. During the pogroms there were no armed Jewish civil defense forces defending their homes with deadly force.

During the pogroms, the government, police forces and the soldiers were more often the enemy, not the saviours.

During the pogroms, there were no armed Jews who voluntarily rushed from all over the country to the line of fire and killed dozens of attackers.

During the pogroms, there were no elite forces, snipers and naval commandos ridding the world of our attackers in huge numbers.

During the pogroms, there was no Jewish air force that pounded the houses, streets and cities of the perpetrators of the pogroms and their supporters to the ground.

During the pogroms there was no way to cut off the electricity, water and gas of the pogroms and their supporters. During the pogroms there was no way to expel the attackers and their supporters from their towns in order to protect the Jews.

Finally, during the pogroms there was no firm and unceasing retribution for the rape, murder and humiliation of Jews.

The problem is that, Now there is. But the shallow words “NEVER AGAIN”, seems empty.

A second holocaust happened, and it happened here, in the only Jewish country in the world, which was designated to protect the Jews.

and they failed horribly.