When Will People Listen to Hamas?

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Oct. 7, 2023, when we witnessed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And while we’ve learned so much about the decline of our civilization and the erosion of its basic moral compass — such as Columbia students chanting that rape, mutilation, torture, kidnapping, burning alive, beheading or murder is “glorious” — it’s obvious that some people have learned nothing at all.

Despite dragging medieval barbarity into the 21st century, Hamas has managed to ride a wave of popularity among a woke-obsessed crowd who happily parrot the pro-terror rhetoric being hand-delivered to college campuses courtesy of the bizarre and doomed partnership of radical Islam and radical leftism.

But what makes the ongoing celebration of Hamas so shocking is that the despicable actions of Oct. 7 were simply the latest physical expression of a decades-long promise of violence.

Shortly after Oct. 7, one senior Hamas leader said that the loss of civilians in Gaza is essential, that “no nation is liberated without sacrifices” and that Hamas is “not responsible” for “civilian victims.” Another Hamas figure vowed to repeat Oct. 7 “time and again until Israel is annihilated,” with the sacrifice of civilian “martyrs” as part of the plan to “achieve this goal.”

And yet college campuses descend into chants for a ceasefire and intifada. And frankly, these comments are mild compared to Hamas rhetoric in previous years.

Back in 2006, for example, one of Hamas’s co-founders said that “Israel is a vile entity that has been planted in our soil, and has no historical, religious or cultural legitimacy.” I guess the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem — precisely where the Dome of the Rock was built — doesn’t count?

In 2011, the former head of Hamas’s oxymoronic Ministry of Culture said that “the Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the Earth,” during a sermon. How cultured.

In 2012, the chief of Hamas’s politburo promised to “free Jerusalem inch by inch, stone by stone,” and that “Israel has no right to be in Jerusalem.” That same year, another Hamas official called on Allah to “destroy the Jews and their supporters,” to “destroy the Americans and their supporters,” and to “count them one by one, and kill them all, without leaving a single one.”

In 2014, Ismail Haniyah said that Palestinians “are a people that yearn for death, just as our enemies yearn for life.” He got his wish when he was assassinated in Iran this past July.

In 2018, Hamas’s interior minister predicted “the cleansing of Palestine of the filth of the Jews, and their uprooting from it,” while Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said that Israel “will never get anything but guns, fire, martyrdom, death, and killing” from Gaza.

In 2019, a member of Hamas’s political bureau said that “there are Jews everywhere,” and that they “must attack every Jew on planet Earth,” and that they “must slaughter and kill them.”

And in 2021, a senior Hamas official called for Palestinians in Jerusalem to “cut off the heads of the Jews.”

And yet, not only after carrying out a modern-day pogrom on Oct. 7 but continuously promising to engage in relentless genocidal violence, Hamas is still able to masquerade as the face of Palestinian resistance in opposition to the imaginary colonialist ethnic cleansing Nazi-esque evil of Israel.

But with an endless supply of useful idiots, why would they change? After all, telling the truth is really working for Hamas.

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