Nurtured in Victimhood and Terrorism

"But even that [Gaza security force from moderate Arab states under a potential Arab Mandate for Gaza], will not work if a broad majority of Palestinians is not willing to unshackle themselves from Hamas's political and ideological grip."

"In that sense, it is not enough for Gazans to revolt against the group for being the prime instigator and perpetuator of the last 18 months of war and misery, a fact the Gazan protesters seem to understand far better than their mindless champions abroad." 

Bret Stephens, The New York Times International Weekly

Palestinians attend a protest against the war and Hamas in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in a rare show of public anger against the militant group that rules the territory. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

The highly unusual sight of large groups of Palestinians in Gaza demonstrating against the oppressive Hamas government, where close to two million civilians are ruled by a terrorist group that is fuelled by hatred of Israel and a long-demonstrated action plan to destroy the Jewish State, feeling fed up enough by the consequences brought upon them when the Israel Defense Forces began their signal military options meant to destroy Hamas which predictably caught the population of Gaza in a vice-grip of Israeli targeted strikes against terrorist operatives deliberately installed for their safety and the population's involuntary martyrdom, has caught the world's attention. 

This needn't have happened. Hamas, dedicated to Israel's utter destruction, has received encouragement and financial backing from its sponsor Iran and from Qatar, along with the humanitarian aid given it in abundance from the United Nations, the European Union, the U.S. and Canada meant to improve the lives of Palestinians in Gaza. That funding in large part has instead gone to funding the actions of Hamas, in building a tunnel network under Gaza for the protection of its operatives, for weapons depots storage, for command posts, for convenience in entering Israel on murder missions.

 

Gaza's hospitals, its schools, its private residences, its huge apartment blocks represent 'safe rooms' for terrorist activities where more command posts, fuel and weapons storage, missiles, entrances and exits to tunnels are all accommodated within crowded civilian areas meant to deter Israeli responses when rockets sent from launch sites installed among these vulnerable areas, create a deliberate hazard for civilians. One they may not relish, but which provides fodder for the Hamas public relations utilization of body counts certain to arouse sympathetic support from an international community prepared to consider Hamas 'freedom fighters' and the Palestinian civilians who support the Hamas mission as 'victims' of Israeli 'aggression'.

 

Perhaps this latest conflict between Israel and Hamas represents the breaking point finally between Hamas and its former Palestinian civilian enthusiastic support of the death-cult mentality and purpose. Palestinians, it appears, are fed up with being unwilling 'martyrs' to the Hamas cause of Israeli extermination. Demonstrators chorus "Out, out, Hamas get out", along with "Hamas are terrorists", displaying banners that read: "Hamas does not represent us". But, in fact, Hamas does represent the Palestinians in Gaza, for they have been complicit and until the present time, willing conspirators and actors in attacking Israel.

 

This demonstrated new bold action in gathering in the streets, demanding Hamas's ouster, marks a departure, however, from the status quo, one which saw great celebration when dead and wounded soldiers, women, children, the elderly and vulnerable were snatched from their homes in southern Israel and taken hostage to Gaza, with Palestinians celebrating in the street at the sight of confused infants and their mothers brought into Gaza to be placed in dank, dark, airless tunnels as valuable prisoners who could be starved, shackled, tortured and murdered.

 

While Palestinians in Gaza marched in defiance of their terrorist masters, and young men among them were taken prisoner, kidnapped, tortured and murdered for daring to challenge the authority and primacy of Hamas, no notice whatever was taken of their courage and their plight by those in the Western world who saw fit to march in support of Hamas 'freedom fighters', for to do so would be to admit their criminality and their own feckless support of terror. The 'pro-Palestinians' do not intend for their commitment to Hamas and its agenda of death for Jews to be nudged aside in the face of reality.

 

Yahya Sinwar, the feared leader of Hamas in Gaza, the man whose October 7, 2023 masterwork of sadistic savagery made him a hunted figure, rose through the Hamas ranks by the sheer force of the terror he represented himself by murdering Palestinians suspected of disloyalty. Domestic surveillance and torture chambers were symbols of his totalitarian governing style in Gaza. Complete with commandeering the humanitarian aid that streamed into Gaza during the Israel Defense Forces' sweep of the Strip to destroy Hamas infrastructure, its command posts, its elite commanders.

 

Palestinians may have found themselves on the short end of food and medicine, but Hamas members had no shortage of any life-sustaining goods, stacked high and kept from the population in Hamas warehouses. Hamas must be destroyed. Its capacity to recruit new members from among the population, its grasp of public relations convincing the international community that it represents a battle of colonialist occupation against Palestinian victims, its manipulation of humanitarian aid, its support by the UN must be countered once and for all.

 

Palestinians, in hating Hamas, still view Israel as their oppressor, as illegally occupying land they claim as their own. They have been nurtured on the concept of 'resistance', on 'Intifada', on Jew-hate and Israel detestation, to blame for their status in life as deprived victims. Not only must Hamas be deprived of any future opportunities to revive its war against Israel, but the Palestinian population itself must guide itself away from terrorism, a viral addiction they have been nurtured on.

 

Palestinians chanting anti-war slogans against Hamas, March 25, 2025.  Stringer/Reuters