Hamas has been at the helm of the Government in Gaza since 2007.
What have they done for the Palestinian people?
The Hamas Charter explicitly calls for the obliteration of Israel. Hamas is not interested in negotiating or coexisting with Israel. Any talks with Israel that might result in a better life for Gazans would be detrimental to Hamas’s hold on power — because peaceful coexistence with Israel negates Hamas’s primary objective, which is to kill Jews.
Hamas militants are fueled by religious hatred, laid bare in the brutal and vicious nature of their attacks on Israeli citizens. When you believe God commands you to slaughter your enemies, you do so with zeal. The greater the depravity by which they murder, the more glory to their God, or so it seems.
Even if you blame Israel entirely for the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, how can anyone justify the terroristic and vicious nature of the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023?
I understand that Israeli policies that expand settlements and displace Palestinians exacerbate the hardships felt in Gaza.
I understand the Israeli government has contributed to Palestinians’ indignity for generations.
I understand that Israel has killed many innocent Palestinians in military operations over the years.
Does all that understanding about the indignity, the generational hopelessness, and the death and destruction at the hands of the Israeli military – justify Hamas’s attack on innocent civilians?
No, it does not – because Hamas has done nothing on behalf of Palestinians to move the needle toward peace.
They offer no hope. They are the enemy of hope.
There’s a palpable dread for what’s about to go down in Gaza.
Palestinian citizens and the hostages taken by Hamas are pawns in a never-ending religious, ethnic, and geopolitical dispute that Hamas has no interest in resolving.
That’s why they need to go.
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