Hamas Isn’t ISIS. Hamas Is The Wehrmacht

World leaders denounced Hamas as being the latest incarnation of ISIS, due to the brutal savagery it committed on October 7. Both radical Islamic groups decapitated people and burned them alive, filming the atrocities to gain support for their jihadi terror.

In selecting ISIS, leaders like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden hoped to gather world support in eliminating Hamas as occurred with ISIS. Netanyahu said “President Biden was absolutely correct in calling this ‘sheer evil.’ Hamas is ISIS, and just as ISIS was crushed, so too will Hamas be crushed. And Hamas should be treated exactly the way ISIS was treated.”

Unfortunately, Hamas is not like ISIS. It is the Palestinian army, much like the Wehrmacht was the army of Nazi Germany.

ISIS was a rogue terrorist group operating in ungoverned land in Iraq and Syria. It did not hold elections or sit in government. It was manned by foreign fighters, especially from Jordan, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kurdish regions.

This stands in sharp contrast to Hamas, which is a Palestinian political party holding 58% of the Palestinian parliament. If elections were held today, the leader of Hamas would win the presidency. It is very much like Nazi Germany in the 1930s that came to power democratically.

Much like the Nazis who sought to invade and annex neighboring countries, the popular Palestinian army of Hamas hopes to destroy Israel and bring millions of Arabs into the Jewish State.

The only major difference is that Nazi Germany had a very powerful army which effectively invaded neighboring countries, while Hamas’s weaponry is crude, making its October 7 invasion and attack on Israel last for only one day.

Hamas, the Palestinian army, is still fighting the 1948 war against the existence of Israel.

Queen Rania of Jordan, herself of Palestinian descent, said as much: “this conflict did not begin on October 7th…This is a 75 year old story.” She added that “this is a fight for freedom and for justice.”

During the 1948 war, five Arab armies invaded Israel to destroy the Jewish State, and after they lost, the Arab and Muslim world expelled nearly 1 million Jews.

Palestinians are not helpless as portrayed by their sponsors and supporters but simply have a weaker army.

The latest incarnation of Israel’s war of independence is still raging, and the world wonders whether the Islamic Republic of Iran and its various proxies including Hezbollah in Lebanon will join Palestinians in their fight against the Jewish State. Watching intently from the sides, diaspora Jewry fears whether socialist and jihadi groups will attack them, as Jews pray for Israel to defeat the Nazi army next door.