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Terror in a Safe Space, a Year On

The horror that struck a music festival on October 7 has since spread far and wide.

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Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Family and friends gather at the Nova Festival Memorial to mark the first anniversary since Hamas attacked on October 7, 2024, in Re'im, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)
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Family and friends gather at the Nova Festival Memorial to mark the first anniversary since Hamas attacked on October 7, 2024, in Re'im, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)

Symbolism is sometimes too rich. That a music festival billed as providing a “safe envelope for finding inner calm, peace, harmony” would end with mass murder, rape and kidnapping and usher the Middle East into a series of horrific wars encapsulates our new and difficult age almost too well.

But that is what happened a year ago outside Kibbutz Re’im at the Tribe of Nova music festival, and the horror that overtook the festivalgoers has spread far and wide since that fatal day.

Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal.

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