Palestinian Poll About October 7 Massacre

A Palestinian poll about the October 7 Hamas massacre was conducted by the Arab World For Research and Development. It shows Palestinians overwhelming supporting the attack as a war to end the Jewish State and control of the Temple Mount.

Palestinian Arabs think that a Palestinian State covering all of the pre-1948 borders – which will end the Jewish State – is much closer to reality.

A total of 79.5% of Palestinians have become more committed to the dream of taking over Israel after the October 7 attack, while 71.1% have become more committed to that as the final solution to the conflict.

This is a continuation of Palestinian conviction that existed before October 7. In a June 2023 PCPSR poll, a slim majority of 51% believed that Arabs will be “able in the future to regain Palestine and repatriate the refugees.” A December 2022 PCPSR poll noted that “the Palestinian public becomes more hardline while indicating a greater confidence in the efficacy of armed struggle.”

That growing conviction of retaking all of historical Palestine via violence has made Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank very supportive of Hamas and its attack on Israel.

An estimated 59.3% and 15.7% extremely support or somewhat support the Hamas attack, respectively, or 75.0% in total. The percentage was higher in the West Bank (83.1%) than in Gaza (63.6%), as Gaza has been bearing the brunt of Israel’s response to the October 7 attack.

Hamas – and other Palestinian terrorist groups – popularity has skyrocketed, with 48.2% and 27.8% having very positive or somewhat positive views of Hamas, respectively. Once again, the popularity of Hamas in the West Bank (87.7%) was much higher than in Gaza (59.6%).

Other Palestinian terrorist groups had similar scores. Islamic Jihad support stood at 84.2%, al Aqsa Brigade at 79.8% and al Qassam at 88.6%. Non-Palestinian terrorist groups like Hizbollah also were viewed favorably but much less so at 45.1%.

The parties who have not participated in attacking Israel have limited support among Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority itself stood at 10.3% support, while the Fatah party was at 23.2%. Iran (33.6%) and Turkey (33.9%) were significantly higher with vocal support than were Egypt (14.0%) and Jordan (12.1%), Saudi Arabia (2.9%) and UAE (2.5%). Russia (39.5%) and China (34.4%) scored much higher than countries normalizing relations with Israel. The United Nations was at 9.1%, while the United States was 0.4%

While Palestinian Arabs seem to have greater conviction in the possibility of liberating all of historic Palestine and supporting the fighters who are working to make that a reality, the “Free Palestine” opinion came in second at 29% in polling regarding the reasons for the Hamas attack. The leading belief was to stop the “violation” of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (35% of respondents). That may be because Hamas named the fight the ‘Al Aqsa Flood.’ Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have been falsely claiming for months that Jews are “storming al Aqsa” in “provocations” by simply walking around the compound during normal visiting hours.

Very few Palestinians place Iranian motivation and freeing Palestinian prisoners as the primary reason for the attack. Palestinian Arabs view this fight as an organic Palestinian movement to control Israel. While there is an appreciation for the support of Iran, Hizbollah in Lebanon, Russia and China, it is Palestinians who are leading the charge. The motivation is less about Palestinian people (in jail or otherwise) or for lands under Palestinian control (like ending the blockade of Gaza). This is a Palestinian war for Jerusalem and pre-1948 Palestine for two-thirds of respondents.

This can be seen in the support for various solutions to end the conflict. The vast majority of Palestinians want a Jew-free state “from the river to the sea.” Only 17% prefer a two state solution while 5% prefer a binational state for Arabs and Jews.

Palestinians do not think this is a narrow war between Israel and Hamas (18.6%) but between Israel and Palestinians generally (63.6%). Almost no one thinks this is a broader regional conflict with 5.2% believing this is Israel against the Muslim world and 2.1% thinking it is Israel against the Arab world. Their confidence in coexistence with Israeli Jews has declined by 89.5% since the attack.

Yet, while Palestinians think this is an Israeli-Palestinian war, they believe the western world hates Muslims, Islam and Arabs, even more than liking Israel or having sympathy for Israeli civilians.

They arrive at this conclusion from watching Arab channels such as Al Jazeera, Palestine TV, Maa’an TV and al Aqsa TV. Very few watch international news, and if they do, it is CNN and the BBC. Social media is huge, with Telegram and Facebook leading as the method of getting news.

Almost every single person polled – 98.0% – said that they felt tremendous pride at being a Palestinian right now. An estimated 72.6% believe that Palestinians will beat Israel in this war, with 75.3% believing the blockade of Gaza will end and 79.4% believing that Palestinians will be freed from Israeli jails.

In the end, Palestinians are still hopeful to have a national unity government with both Hamas and Fatah ruling Gaza. They appreciate the global community’s support for the October 7 attacks and are against countries and groups that call Hamas a terrorist organization which must be eliminated.

Palestinian Arabs believe that the armed struggle to destroy the Jewish State has begun in earnest and are embracing countries and groups that support its aims including Iran, Turkey, Russia and China, and American groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Justice in Palestine. The barbarity of the massacre is a side note for them as is the fate of the 240 hostages. The war to “free Palestine from the River to the Sea” may take years or decades, but the alliances are coalescing now.

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Political AND Military Resolution To Arab-Israeli Conflict

In the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel and Israel’s response, a number of politicians have opined that there should be a ceasefire and allow a political solution to bear fruit. It is a naive and dangerous suggestion, as are calls to flatten Gaza. The situation requires both a military and a political dynamic, in that order.

The Palestinian-Israel Conflict has two dimensions: a radical jihadi ideology that seeks the destruction of Israel, and a territorial component which parties better understand. The first poisonous jihadi threat must be extinguished and the second matter crafted with care.

Hamas is not only a terrorist group which just carried out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It is a genocidal antisemitic group which has broad popular support among Palestinians, especially in Gaza. That threat must be destroyed and the evil ideology erased for there to be any hope for calm in the region.

Hamas’s foundational charter is an antisemitic screed calling for the death of Jews and end to the Jewish State. Palestinian Arabs elected Hamas to 58% of the parliament in 2006 with this charter and Palestinians would elect the leader of Hamas to the presidency in latest polls. An estimated 70% of Gazans support killing Jewish civilians inside of Israel in a June 2023 poll.

The United Nations Security Council understands such evil ideology as it voted “unequivocally” to condemn ISIS for a similar violent orientation. On November 20, 2015, the UNSC press stated:

The Security Council determined today that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS) constituted an “unprecedented” threat to international peace and security, calling upon Member States with the requisite capacity to take “all necessary measures” to prevent and suppress its terrorist acts on territory under its control in Syria and Iraq.

Unanimously adopting resolution 2249 (2015), the Council unequivocally condemned the terrorist attacks perpetrated by ISIL — also known as Da’esh — on 26 June in Sousse, on 10 October in Ankara, on 31 October over the Sinaï Peninsula, on 12 November in Beirut and on 13 November in Paris, among others.  It expressed its deepest condolences to the victims and their families, as well as to the people and Governments of Tunisia, Turkey, Russian Federation, Lebanon and France.

The 15-member body condemned in the strongest terms ISIL’s gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights, as well as its destruction and looting of cultural heritage.  Those who committed, or were otherwise responsible for, terrorist acts or human rights violations must be held accountable.  By other terms, the Council urged Member States to intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters into Iraq and Syria, and to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism.

Following the vote, nearly all Council members took the floor to decry the “barbaric” attacks and hateful world view espoused by ISIL, reaffirming their support in both stemming the threat and bringing perpetrators to justice.  In an echo of the sentiments voiced by many around the table Spain’s representative declared:  “Today, we are all French, Russian, Malian and Arab,” adding:  “It is time to act with a French, Russian, Malian and Arab heart.”  The Council had a duty to guarantee the values and principles of the United Nations, and all must close ranks to vanquish terrorism, he stressed.

France’s representative, recalling that Da’esh had perpetrated an act of war against his country on 13 November, said today’s vote signaled recognition of the threat’s exceptional nature. The fight against terrorism could only be effective if combined with a political transition that would eliminate Da’esh, he said, adding that France had obtained activation of the European Union’s mutual solidarity clause.

The Russian Federation’s representative said today’s unanimous vote was a step towards the creation of a broad anti-terrorism front aimed at eradicating root causes.  That also had been the aim of a Russian draft presented to the Council on 30 September, he said, describing attempts by some to block his delegation’s efforts as politically short-sighted.

The course of action against Hamas should be the same as taken with ISIL:

  • decry the “barbaric” attacks and hateful world view
  • bringing perpetrators to justice / Those who committed, or were otherwise responsible for, terrorist acts or human rights violations must be held accountable
  • take “all necessary measures” to prevent and suppress its terrorist acts
  • intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters
  • prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism
  • all must close ranks to vanquish terrorism

Hamas must be destroyed militarily and financially with global support.

Hamas terrorist in Israeli kibbutz

Afterwards, the transition to a civil society must include a political component, as noted “The fight against terrorism could only be effective if combined with a political transition that would eliminate Da’esh [Hamas].” Key factors must be present in a new governing entity:

  • no military capabilities
  • no intention to destroy Israel
  • not virulently antisemitic

The last item – of not being antisemitic – is wishful thinking. Palestinians are the most antisemitic in the world according to polls. Regarding stripping military capabilities, that is essential as the amount of Palestinian terrorism with limited capabilities is already terrifying. Think post-WWII Japan.

In regards to a goal of coexisting with the Jewish State, that will require the world – the United Nations and Saudi Arabia in particular – to clearly state that there is no “right of return” for Palestinian Arabs to move to Israel. A two state solution means Palestinian refugees move to a new Palestinian state, not the Jewish state.

If there is a chance for “from the river to the sea, people will live with security,” a decisive military destruction of Hamas as an organization must be followed with bringing a vision of coexistence instead of bloodshed. To get there, the world must unequivocally support Israel in its destruction of Hamas and thereafter, a weapons-free Arab state which will be home to the descendants of Palestine refugees.

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Five And One-Half Years From Purging Jewish Ideas To Eradicating Jews

Nazis burn books by Jews in Berlin in 1933

During the night of May 10, 1933, tens of thousands of Germans in twenty-two cities gathered books written by Jews and tossed them into huge bonfires. It was part of an emerging effort to remove the supposed “depraved” culture of Germany instigated by Jews and replace it with something more pure.

In Munich, the Ludwig Maximilian University and the Technical University granted state recognition to students’ unions as legal entities in the university constitution, with a stipulation that Jewish students be excluded from these bodies. An estimated 8,000 Germans celebrated the action at a rally and then proceeded to burn books by Jews. An estimated 70,000 onlookers watched the spectacle.

Roughly one hundred book burnings took place from early March and ran through October of 1933. Universities were the main originators of the effort to identify and ban books, which led to libraries and other institutions following suit.

Five and one-half years later, the Nazi machinery had gained momentum. On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazis throughout Germany and Austria burned Jewish stores and synagogues in what became knows as Kristallnacht. Citizens – mostly neighbors – ransacked and looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses, killed at least 91 Jews, and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. Some 30,000 Jewish males aged 16 to 60 were arrested. 

Jews were forced to pay for and clean up the carnage from which they suffered. They scrubbed streets on their knees before Nazis and their neighbors, as they had been forced to do for months in public humiliation.

Jews in Vienna, Austria forced to scrub streets with their hands in March 1938

Eighty-five years later, a new generation of antisemites labeled a different Jewish idea as a depravity to terminate and Jews to annihilate: Zionism.

On March 30, 2018, thirty thousand Gazans marched on the fence with Israel in what they billed the “Great March of Return.” They continued to rail against the fence demanding the “right to return” into the land of Israel, where grandparents lived until 1948. Backed by Hamas, the Gazans burned fires and sent burning kites into Israel to torch their fields, as they tried to take down the border fence.

Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.

Hamas Charter

Five and one half years later, on October 7, 2023, over 1,000 members of Hamas and many Gazans effectively stormed and destroyed the border separation and stormed into Israeli towns where they butchered and slaughtered 1,200 people. They made clear that they did not just want to return to Israel but to end the existence of Jews and the Jewish State.

Kibbutz Be’eri after Hamas October 7 Massacre

Both Nazis and Hamas targeted Jews at their inceptions well before 1933 and 2018, respectively. The Nazis gained legitimacy over time through democratic elections and penetrated the mindset of universities. Hamas similarly won Palestinian elections and dominate Palestinian views in a manner that James Zogby of the Arab American Institute called a “deformity in Palestinian political culture.”

Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people.

Hamas Charter

The scary dynamic is that the Palestinian narrative about the evil idea of Zionism is no longer constrained to Arab and Muslim schools but global academia.

Ivy League schools push the idea to “Decolonize Palestine” and paint Jews as foreign invaders with no history in their homeland. They support a global putsch to take down the Jewish State and professors agreed “to recontextualize the events of October 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years. One could regard the events of October 7th as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies, or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation,” even though Israel left Gaza in 2005.

In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised…. the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis.

Hamas Charter

What is Zionism that so angers Palestinians and university “scholars”? A simple set of beliefs that millions of Jews and non-Jews believe:

  • Jews are a people, not simply members of a religion
  • Jews have history and deep ties to their particular homeland in the land of Israel
  • Jews have a right to self-determination, manifest in establishing sovereignty with the State of Israel
  • The State of Israel is a safe haven for Jews around the world, all welcome to return
  • That Jewish State will fight global antisemitism

Nazi Germany moved from burning Jewish ideas to burning Jews in just a few years. Palestinian Arabs and their supporters have similarly targeted Zionism, Jews and the Jewish State. The question is whether the civilized world will turn back the evil.

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What Changed With October 7 Massacre

A month after the heinous massacre of October 7, the world feels very different, when in fact only a few things changed.

Hamas was a terrorist group at its founding in 1987, when it wrote its infamous 1988 charter, when Palestinian Arabs voted the group to 58% of parliament in 2006, and today. Their capabilities have gotten better while their intent to murder Jews and destroy the Jewish State remains constant.

The Israeli Defense Forces is seemingly capable of responding to the threat when given time but were horribly unprepared during that first day. The Palestinian jihadists were not able to launch an even more deadly invasion from the West Bank showing the important life-saving work of active intelligence and occasional raids into terrorists’ enclaves. The IDF had done no such raids into Gaza for two years.

In reality, much of the underlying matters have not changed much. However, the scale and barbarity of the attack has put Israeli society in shock. It cannot permit Hamas to maintain such genocidal capabilities to launch similar attacks.

The United States, Germany and several other western democracies are standing with Israel in its fight against jihadi terror. The American president and Secretary of State have both said that “Hamas is ISIS”, a lethal, radical Islamist group with a poisonous ideology which a global coalition helped defeat in Syria and Iraq.

It’s much of the rest of the world that changed.

While the Muslim world did not actively condemn the destruction of ISIS, they have rallied to the Palestinians as many have been killed in the effort to root out Hamas. Many governments have also excused Hamas’s atrocities and some even support it.

Worse, socialists around the world have been cheering Hamas’s slaughter. On college campuses, students and professors shout about their joy about the attacks, hailing it is the start of “decolonizing Palestine.”

Faced with clear footage of barbarism, the radical left is supporting genocidal maniacs. With the clarity that the conflict is not just about land but vicious racism and antisemitism, the alt-left is cleaving to the jihadists.

Socialists have demonstrated their depravity. They are not just indifferent but joyous to see Jews suffer.

I have long known about Hamas but I didn’t really know you.

October 7 did not change my view of Hamas.

October 8 changed my view of you.

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United Nations Declares Jews May Not Judge

Many countries are fighting terrorism, and the fall of 2023 is no different.

On November 6, over 20 people were killed, including children, in Cameroon. In Myanmar a bombing on October 9 killed dozens.

And of course, there were over 1,400 people butchered in Israel on October 7.

The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressed each, condemning the attacks.

Regarding Cameroon, Guterres called “on the Government of Cameroon to conduct an investigation and to ensure that those responsible are held accountable.”

For the attack in Myanmar, Guterres said of the terrorists, “Those responsible must be held to account.”

Yet despite to much greater scale and barbarity of the attack on Israel, Guterres pared back his comments. He specifically did not want the Government of Israel to hold the Hamas terrorists accountable.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

In the immediate aftermath of the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust, Guterres offered “The Secretary-General is deeply concerned for the civilian population and urges maximum restraint.  Civilians must be respected and protected in accordance with international humanitarian law at all times.”

Does Guterres think that Hamas terrorists are “civilians” to be protected? Does he not believe that the 1,000-plus terrorists that invaded Israel and burned families alive should “be held to account?” What is the purpose of the statement that is a world apart from what Guterres offers to other countries?

Seemingly, the United Nations is sending a message that countries like Cameroon and Myanmar can and should hold terrorists to account. But not Israel. Israel must use “maximum restraint” despite the horror.

To give context to the 1,400 people killed in Israel on a single day, the total deaths from terrorism in 2022 in the entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region was 791 people. The one day toll in Israel was more than any country for the entire year of 2022.

Yet the United Nations urged “maximum restraint.”

This treatment of Israel in the face of terrorism has a long history, as the UN adopted Palestinian Arabs long ago and protects them at all times, even – or especially – when they engage in grotesque jihadi terrorism.

But even now? Even in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre?

According to the United Nations, Israel may never act as judge; it is only to be judged, scrutinized and criticized. It is an object to be acted upon, and must otherwise remain silent, even when slaughtered.

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Hamas Is The Very Definition Of A Genocidal Group

Genocide is defined in the dictionary as “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” Nazi Germany had that aim in the 1930s and 1940s and succeeded in killing one-third of the Jewish population. Jews have still not replaced the loss 75 years later.

Today, the group that best captures the heinous intent of deliberately killing Jews is the popular political-terrorist group Hamas.

Hamas’s 1988 foundational charter is a fountain of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and calls to kill Jews and destroy the Jewish State. Some lowlights include:

  • “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it.” (Opening)
  • “Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.” (Preamble)
  • “raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors, so that they would rid the land and the people of their uncleanliness, vileness and evils.” (Article 3)
  • “raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine” (Article 6)
  • “Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews)… there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him” (Article 7)
  • “Nothing in nationalism is more significant or deeper than in the case when an enemy should tread Moslem land” (Article 12)
  • “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time” (Article 13)
  • “In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised…. the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis.” (Article 15)
  • Zionist “organizations, hostile to humanity and Islam, will be obliterated.” (Article 17)

The toxicity rambles on from there.

Palestinian Arabs voted Hamas to 58% of parliament with this charter, in its first democratic election for parliament in 2006. It has thus far been the only parliamentary election.

Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, and Egypt and Israel subsequently put a blockade around the terrorist enclave lest it gain deadly weapons to pursue its genocidal goals. Despite the blockade, the group managed to launch numerous attacks and wars against Israel with low-level weaponry.

Palestinian Arabs continue to support this genocidal group, with a majority supporting their leader to be the next president according to Palestinian polls. That should not be surprising as most Gazans support terrorism, specifically killing Jewish civilians inside of Israel.

June 2023 PCPSR poll Question 70 “Concerning armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel, I….”, with 70% of Gazans supporting terrorism

The United Nations has a definition for genocide which states:

“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

  1. Killing members of the group;
  2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
  5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Elements of the crime

The 1988 Hamas Charter showed clear intent to cause a genocide of Jews, and the group’s broad-based support amongst Palestinian Arabs demonstrate a “deformity” in Palestinian culture, as leading Arab American James Zogby said at the United Nations in June 2023.

The actions of October 7, 2023, certify the intent with barbarism.

Not only did Hamas kill over 1,400 people in an unprovoked attack, it butchered people causing severe mental harm and long-term trauma to the entire Jewish State. It made the idea of living anywhere near Gaza virtually impossible. In taking over 240 hostages into Gaza – including young children who may never see their families again – the evil intent is beyond manifest.

Israel is engaged in a just war against this genocidal group. While limiting civilian casualties, it MUST defeat Hamas and ensure it cannot attack Israel again. An aggressive self defense must be broadly supported.

Defense against genocidal maniacs must extend to Jews in the diaspora as well. Countries with large Jewish populations including the United States, France, Canada, United Kingdom and Argentina have over 7 million Jews amongst them. Those countries have seen a large spike in antisemitic incidents on college campuses, in the streets and in governments. Security must be enhanced as Hamas’s Willing Executioners invert perpetrator and victim and spew antisemitic inanity to incite the mob.

The most terrifying evidence of the global depravity was watching America’s Ivy League professors cheering the October 7 pogrom calling it “exhilarating” and “awesome” because they believed that the genocide of Jews had finally moved passed a Palestinian promise to an actual reality.

First in the Middle East, and then the diaspora.

The world witnessed an antisemitic genocidal group butchering Jews in Israel, and now watches Hamas supporters come for global Jewry as part of the “global intifada”, bizarrely protected under the banner of free speech.

How will diaspora Jewry’s self-defense manifest?

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The Reason Palestinian Supporters Are Pulling Down Kidnapped Posters

All over major cities in the world, people are putting up posters of the roughly 240 men, women and children who were taken captive from Israel by the Palestinian political-terrorist group Hamas. While people may walk past a posting of a lost dog, Palestinian supporters become enraged at seeing the signs of captive Israelis.

The reason is NOT because the Arab-Israeli conflict is complex. A complicated situation could still have people on each side see the basic humanity of the other, and appreciate that the kidnapping of civilians is an atrocious war crime.

Jihadi anti-Israel activists don’t think that the hostages are innocent because they view all of Israel as an illegal European colonial enterprise. Other anti-Israel activists understand that the basic strategy of Hamas relies on global opinion. Sympathy for Jews undercuts Palestinian defenses.

Israel invests significant intellectual and monetary capital in preventative defenses. It has bomb shelters in public space and homes. It uses its ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense system and built security barriers around Gaza and the West Bank to stop or slow the advance of Palestinian Arab terrorists. It blockaded the terrorist safe haven of Gaza to slow the shipment of weaponry.

Hamas, which rules Gaza, has not invested in any preventative defense system. It uses concrete for tunnels for its soldiers rather than bunkers for civilians. It uses its school system to educate Arabs that Jews are the enemy rather than develop scientific skills.

Hamas’s defenses completely rely on REACTIVE measures, such as world condemnation about Israeli attacks, and relying on Israel’s morality to not strike killers hiding amongst civilians and under hospitals.

Anti-Israel activists do not want people to remember the October 7 barbarity and only to focus on the current situation in Gaza. In doing so, they hope to flip the narrative of cause-and-effect, and make Israel the aggressor.

The presence of kidnapped posters for pro-Israel activists and decent people is a call to bring innocent civilians home. For anti-Israel activists, it prevents the world from defending Gazans and reminds everyone of the heinous barbarity of the Palestinians’ elected representative body.

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The They Keeps Growing

They came into your home and chopped off the fingers of your son.

They came into your home on cut off the foot of your daughter.

They came into your home and put your infant into an oven.

They came into your home and chopped off the breasts of your wife.

They came into your home and gouged your eye out.

They came into your home and burned your family alive.

They came into your home and raped your daughter and then dragged her though the street by her hair.

They came into your neighborhood and shot elderly people to death at a bus stop.

They came into the nursery and butchered babies.

They came into a music festival and slaughtered young people dancing.

They came into community centers and dragged away hostages.

They came onto your streets and pulled down posters calling for the kidnapped to be returned safely.

They came onto college campuses and shouted that the massacre of Jews was “exhilarating” and “awesome.”

They came onto college and threatened to kill you.

They came into elected office and said “Jews hypnotized the world” and “Jews exploit the rest of us for their own profit.”

They came.

They keep coming.

And the They keeps growing.

Woman removes posters of kidnapped Israelis in UK saying “this is for Palestine”

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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.

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What Palestinians Talk About When They Talk About Hamas

As of October 7, 2023, Hamas became the official poster child of evil in the civilized world. The death toll of 1,400 people was appalling in itself, but the butchery of civilians, ripped from their homes and burned alive will be scorched in the minds of this generation.

So imagine being a Palestinian on global television and asked about Hamas and the events of October 7.

If one wanted to distance oneself from the savagery, one could clearly condemn the group and the actions unequivocally. Say that the group is disgusting and doesn’t speak on behalf of Palestinians.

Queen Rania of Jordan, a descendant of Palestinians, took a different course. She took ownership of Hamas as part-and-parcel of the Palestinian people, essentially the rag-tag army against a powerful Israeli military. She said that while Hamas shouldn’t have killed civilians, Israel has killed many more and sees the Western press buying into Israel’s “right to defend itself” as a form of Islamophobia which may result in the Muslim world coming for them next.

Watch her entire interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. Since Amanpour loves the queen, she was loathe to interrupt and correct her lies. When Amanpour asked her pointedly about Hamas and October 7, Rania pivoted the discussion to suffering in Gaza from Israel’s air strikes.

Jordan’s Queen Rania was given almost 20 minutes to air her grievances on CNN with Christiane Amanpour, October 2023

Some lowlights from Rania’s talk to consider before you watch the interview:

To start, Rania discussed the difficult situation in Gaza for Palestinian mothers but said nothing about Israeli mothers who had their children ripped from their arms and shot intentionally before them.

At 1:30, Rania noted that “October 7th happened”, in passive language borrowed from the pages of Rep. Ilhan Omar who described the attacks on 9/11 as “some people did something.” She distanced the Palestinian political-terrorist group Hamas from the deliberate unprovoked slaughter.

At 2:20, Rania made a veiled warning (or threat) to the western world for backing Israel in defending itself after the Hamas massacre, saying that the west was “complicit” and was “aiding and abetting” Israeli attacks against Gaza.

Amanpour, after giving Rania nearly three minutes to rant freely, asked a pointed question: “what did you feel on October 7th?” The response was a bland “we condemn the killing of any civilians, whether Palestinian or Israeli.” Rania then described the views of Islam, arguing that it had an ethical code when fighting war which prohibits the killing of children, women and elderly. Amanpour never asked about Islam. She asked the queen a personal question about how she felt, but Rania offered a bland ALL lives matter, coupled with a defense of Islam. Perhaps the queen’s deflection was understandable, as Hamas is a devout Islamist group which clearly doesn’t have religious views which dovetail with Rania’s version.

At 4:15, Rania moved the conversation that “this conflict did not begin on October 7th.” This was the crux of Rania’s interview. After implying that the militant Islamist group Hamas doesn’t represent Islam, she implied that it very much represents the Palestinian people. Rania said that for Palestinians “war has never left. This is a 75 year old story,” meaning from the founding of Israel. At 7:30 she leaned in completely saying “this is a fight for freedom and for justice,” which Hamas launched on October 7.

After Amanpour failed to get Rania to offer any emotion about Hamas’s butchery, she asked the question differently, as to whether Hamas’s barbaric attacks hurt the Palestinian cause. Rania offered the same responses as before, that she does not favor the killing of civilians but that “this is a story of violence that has been going on now for so long.” She somehow conflated Jews building homes in Judea and Samaria with Palestinians yanking people out of their homes and raping them, then dragging them through the streets; Israelis building a security wall to stop Palestinian terrorists with Hamas decapitating babies in front of their parents; Jews visiting the Jewish Temple Mount with Arabs burning families alive.

Rania then moved her comments to the situation in Gaza, again refusing to clearly condemn and distance herself – and Palestinian Arabs generally – from Hamas.

She said the Israel is engaged in war crimes and is targeting hospitals and mosques. She didn’t seem to mind that the hospital bombing was proven to be from Palestinian terrorists and the mosque had a weapons cache stored beneath it when leveled by Israel.

At 9:40, Rania asked “why is it that whenever Israel commits these atrocities it comes under the banner of ‘self-defense’ but when there’s violence by Palestinians it is immediately called ‘terrorism?’ Is the word ‘terrorism’ only reserved for Muslims and Arabs?” Quite a but of political trickery, in calling Hamas’s massacre “violence by Palestinians” while Israel commits “atrocities.” She followed that with smearing anyone who called out the barbarity of Hamas as an Islamophobe.

By 10:10, Rania attempted to reframe the entire situation: “These are not two equal people in the conflict. One is an occupier and one is the occupied. One has a military, one of the mightiest in the world, and the other doesn’t have a military at all.” Well, not quite. In saying that Hamas speaks for the Palestinians she offered that it is the Palestinian military at this moment in time.

At 11:00, she summed up her feelings that the current situation should be focused on Israeli “violations” and “not this hyper-fixation on Hamas.” Somehow Rania missed the point that the West has a “hyper-fixation on Hamas” to distance the massacre from Palestinian Arabs to show there is a pathway to peace. The west will never push Israel into compromising with genocidal maniacs.

Rania’s anger bubbled and her voice quivered but the interview was not quite over.

At 12:20, Rania expressed how upset she was that the October 7 massacre was described in the press as “savagery, barbaric, blood-thirsty, cold-blooded, but we’re not seeing that terminology describing that situation [in Gaza]” She questioned media bias against Palestinians and the unwarranted defense of Israel, in light of many more Palestinians being killed since October 7.

Again, she refused the opportunity to distance herself and Palestinians from the massacre.

At 16:40 Rania added that she was angry that Arabs are asked to show their “humanity bona fides” in condemning the October 7 massacres but Israelis are not asked about the current campaign against Hamas. She bemoaned that western leaders don’t say that “Palestinians have a right to defend themselves.” She added that western countries should allow people to protest “for Palestine” without being called “terrorist sympathizers and antisemites.” Perhaps the queen is unfamiliar with the chants at those “protests” of ‘Globalize the intifada’, ‘from the river to the sea’ and ‘gas the Jews‘. But I doubt it

Towards the end of the interview at 18:10, Rania said that even if Israel kills every member of Hamas, it will just “create a new generation of resistance that is fiercer and more violent.” Rania’s comment embraced Hamas as a “resistance” movement against Israel. Somehow, even after October 7, she thinks the next generation of Palestinians can have even more evil intent.


So what do we learn from the Palestinian queen who rules in Jordan? A woman who is more polished after decades of interviews than the man-on-the-street, perched on a pedestal at news media which adores her.

Asked to comment on Hamas and its attack on October 7, Rania did the opposite of disowning the group. She let it be known that:

  1. Hamas is Palestinian. It is the military arm of Palestinians who are still fighting the 75-year old war of Israel’s creation.
  2. Hamas’s brutality is understandable and the Palestinian people will not distance themselves from the group nor the actions, but offer “all” civilian lives matter statements.
  3. The Arab world considers the condemnation of Hamas’s actions to be a sign of Islamophobia, even though they admit that Hamas’s actions are against Islam.
  4. The Arab street is judging the western world now, not just Israel. Terrorist attacks may spread as part of the ‘globalize jihad’ and ‘globalize intifada’ movements.
  5. The Palestinian war against Israel is 75 years and counting and will not end until every Jew gets out of the West Bank and a new Palestinian State can have full autonomy, including a proper military to “defend itself” against Israel, ensuring much more bloody wars in the future.

It’s the same message from Turkish President Recep Erdogan who said “Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a liberation group, ‘mujahideen’ waging a battle to protect its lands and people.”

The Muslim and pro-Palestinian narrative is the opposite of that held by western politicians who are attempting to demonize Hamas and its Iranian-sponsors, so as to enable the notion of peaceful and moderate Palestinian Arabs on the whole, who will be willing to live side-by-side in peace with the Jewish State. If Hamas is essentially the Palestinian military, backed and supported by everyday Palestinians, how could such a people be enabled to have an independent country with a full blown army living next to Israel?

The West NEEDS to demonize Hamas to advance a two-state solution, deaf to the comments of Palestinians and their supporters, who make clear that Hamas is their military “resisting” Jews living in their land. Palestinians hope that the West will feel so committed to “two states for two people” like the United Nations, that the West will be compelled to adopt the Palestinian narrative inverting cause-and-effect of October 7, and place the 100 years of modern Zionism in the crosshairs for attack.

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