The sun was rising on Oct. 7, Natalie Sanandaji awoke at the Israeli music festival where she hoped to celebrate the Jewish holiday.
It was not music that stirred her awake, but rather the sounds of rockets overhead, and then gunfire from terrorists on paragliders and screams of fallen victims.
She took off running and did not stop for miles until a Good Samaritan in a pickup truck rescued her and whisked her to safety along with others. Most of those who chose to hide, perished.
Now, 100 days from that tragedy, Sanandaji looks forward to the day when the terror group that perpetrated that slaughter, Hamas, is routed from Gaza and the Palestinians and Israelis have a chance to reboot relations.
“Hopefully, I want post-Hamas Gaza to look the same way I would like Iran to look in the future,” Sanandaji told the Just the News, No Noise TV show. “I would like for them to have an actual democracy. That’s the only way that their people are going to have potentially a better future.”
“Something that’s a little upsetting is that a lot of the time when I’m posting about what’s happening about the war and about the fact that we should come together against Hamas, a lot of people like to try to put words in my mouth,” she explained. “They’ll respond to what I’m posting and they’ll say ‘why do you have a problem with Palestinians? Why are you being Islamophobic?’”