The Bibas Family and Germany’s Guilt

February 20, 2025, the Jewish people, and all who cherish humanity, stood weeping as coffins were carried from Gaza into Israel. Inside were the bodies of Kfir Bibas, taken from his family, his brother Ariel, and Oded Lifshitz. Missing from that initial handover was the boys’ mother, Shiri Bibas, whose body Hamas withheld in a sadistic game, returning it the next day, February 21, confirmed by Israel’s forensic team on February 22.

Those four, kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, by Hamas’s ruthless terrorists, were not mere casualties of war; they were martyrs to a genocidal hatred bent on erasing Jews from existence. Say their names: Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Oded Lifshitz. Their story is a testament to Jewish resilience and a damning indictment of Hamas, a death cult that thrives on the blood of innocents.

Shiri, clutching her sons in a haunting video that shook the world, embodied a mother’s love amid terror.

This is the face of Hamas: a group that abducts infants, murders mothers, and desecrates corpses for propaganda.

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Germany’s Olaf Scholz, leader of a nation tied to Shiri and her sons by citizenship, failed them utterly. On February 20, he tweeted, “It has become a terrible certainty: Shiri Silbermann-Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir are dead. Hamas has brought suffering and death to countless families. I feel for all who must deal with this terrible certainty”, a tepid whimper devoid of fury. People fired back, saying, “So you feel for them, Chancellor? In the last two years, Germany has transferred 930 million euros of taxpayer money to Palestine, especially for the terror-infested UNRWA. Germany has thus indirectly financed Palestinian terror. It doesn’t even cross your lips to mention that the dead Bibas children were German nationals, German nationals our government shamefully abandoned. Instead, we see ‘emaciated’ civilians celebrating Hamas’s propaganda show today with their small children. They love dead Jews, and the German government rewards them for it. Shame on you!”

Where was the outrage for German Jews slaughtered by Islamists? Where was the diplomatic fire to crush Hamas?

Germany’s shame deepens with its funding of UNRWA, the UN agency exposed as a Hamas pipeline. Over two years, Berlin funneled 913 million euros to Palestinians, 38% through UNRWA, cash that indirectly armed the October 7 atrocities, including the Bibas family’s abduction. Evidence abounds: Hamas bunkers beneath UNRWA complexes, weapons in its facilities, and staff tied to the terror group, some even participating in the massacre.

This isn’t leadership; it’s cowardice, a betrayal of “Never Again.”

Worse still is the German Left’s Jan van Aken, whose February 21 statement, “I don’t know how they died, but their captivity was a crime,” drips with antisemitic venom. By hinting at Israeli airstrikes as the cause, he echoes Hamas lies, absolving murderers and smearing Jews. Later, he wrote, “There is no doubt that Hamas alone is responsible for their deaths. I expressed that clearly in the tweet. But as a bioweapons inspector, I learned to rely only on verified facts. The one fact here: Hamas bears sole guilt.” This is the rot of a left that coddles terrorists, starkly opposed to Israel’s fierce resolve.

President Isaac Herzog’s anguished apology, “We couldn’t protect you,” and Netanyahu’s vow to destroy Hamas reflect a nation’s heart and steel.

Hamas is no resistance; it’s a plague. Hiding in tunnels, they let Gazans perish above, then parade corpses to guilt the West into leniency. Their airstrike-death claim is a proven lie; Israel’s forensics show Shiri was “brutally killed” and her boys strangled.

Yet in Gaza, crowds cheered the coffin transfer, a society warped by decades of Jew-hating indoctrination. In London, Berlin, and New York, “pro-Hamas” marchers wave banners for baby-killers, their slogans echoing yesterday’s antisemitism. This isn’t protest, it’s complicity.

The Bibas family’s German-Israeli-Argentine roots make their loss a global clarion call. Argentina’s Javier Milei mourned with two days of national grief, honoring Kfir and Ariel’s citizenship. Germany’s silence, tainted by its UNRWA millions, is a moral stain.

Israel fights not just for itself but for civilization against barbarism. Hamas’s existence mocks every value Jews and their allies hold dear. To tolerate it invites more coffins, more Yarden Bibases weeping alone. Shiri, Kfir, Ariel, and Oded are not just martyrs; they are a mandate: eradicate Hamas, root, and branch for the Jewish future, and defeat antisemitism’s latest mask.

Their memories must be a blessing, their deaths a battle cry to end this evil forever.