In the seven weeks since Hamas invaded Israel and massacred over 1,200 people, growing international attention has been directed toward the terrorist organization's primary backers and paymasters, chief among them Iran and Qatar.

The two autocratic regimes, which have provided Hamas with various forms of support over the course of many years, both bear responsibility for the savagery that was inflicted by their Gaza-based client. Largely overlooked, however, has been the role of yet another nefarious dictatorship, one that also deserves to be held to account for the part that it played in the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

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The Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7 and its massacre of over 1,400 sent shock waves across the globe. Among the 241 hostages taken by the terrorists to Gaza are citizens of more than 40 countries, including Serbia.

Thousands of kilometers away, the news hit Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric in a profoundly personal way. His cousin is among those who were kidnapped. As of this writing, his fate, as those of the others, remains unknown.

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This past Shabbat, the Israeli flag was raised over Gaza.

In a moving video clip circulating on social media, two Israeli soldiers standing atop a building hoisted the blue-and-white banner, signifying the Jewish state's return to the strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea.

To mark the occasion, someone off camera noted that three weeks had passed since the Hamas invasion and massacre of 1,400 Jews and that "soldiers of the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Brigade are raising the flag of Israel in the heart of Gaza on the beach. We will not forget, we will not forgive, and we will not stop until victory."

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As a result of Hamas's brutal massacre of over 1,400 Israelis on October 7, Gaza has once again been thrust back into the international spotlight, garnering attention across the globe.

And while much has been said about this strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, it appears that few are aware of its long and vivid history, which is inextricably linked with that of the Jewish people and contains within it some lessons relevant to our current situation.

Indeed, the Jewish connection with Gaza stretches back to the dawn of our very existence.

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Just over nine months ago, when Israel's governing coalition was sworn into power, it was immediately greeted with suspicion and hostility by much of the international community.

Unwilling to accept the democratic decision made at the ballot box by a majority of Israelis, detractors of the Jewish state wasted little time in labeling the new government "the most extreme in Israel's history," "the most far-right," and even called it "messianic" in its pretensions.

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