Justifying Nihilistic Terrorism

"Nobody should blame us for the things we do on October 7, October 10, October one million. Everything we do is justified."

"We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again."

"The Al Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth. Because we have the determination, the resolve and the capabilities to fight."

"Yes, of course [Hamas wants to annihilate Israel]. The existence of Israel is illogical. The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood and tears. It is Israel, not  us. We are the victims of the occupation. Period."

"Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this with full force."

"We have to pay a price, yes. And we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs."

Ghazi Hamad, Hamas spokesman

 

"A family of four. A young boy and girl, six and eight years old, and their parents around the breakfast table."

"The father, his eye gouged out in front of his kids. The mother's breast cut off, the girl's foot amputated. The boy's fingers cut off before [the family] were executed."

"And then their executioners sat down and had a meal."

"That's what the society is dealing with. And no nation could tolerate that."

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

A screenshot from GoPro footage shows Hamas terrorists moving toward the border fence separating Israel and Gaza on the morning of Oct. 7. The attack left 1,400 people dead. (Reuters)

Hamas gloats as it speaks of its pride in being a murderous, barbaric death cult pathologically committed to slaughtering Jews, whenever the opportunity presents, wherever they happen to be, regardless of gender, age, infirmity; they all deserve to die and Hamas prides itself on having accepted that obligation on behalf of the Islamic faith to expunge Israel and its Jews from the face of the Earth.  Its admirers in the West don't flinch in the face of its sinister barbarity revealed; hatred for Jews exculpates mass murdering terrorists from any vestige of blame; Jews have brought it on themselves.

Pro-Hamas supporters celebrate the glorious resistance that most sane people hold as ghastly inhumanity. Hamas portrays itself as the victim of Israel's existence, extolling its own virtuous assignment as the protector of all that is sacred to Islam. In perpetrating sadistic atrocities it cements its name and its purpose in the annals of historic records of mankind's insane addiction to barbarous atrocities perpetrated on those they single out as enemies.

 

Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad speaks in an interview with Lebanese channel LBC on October 24, 2023. (Screenshot: X)

 

Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad luxuriated in the glory of the October 7 attacks named the "Al-Aqsa Flood" by the Hamas terrorists. An event that Hamas plans to repeat time and again. This time, perhaps, never again. This time, as events unfold with Israel responding to the feral barbarism that slaughtered 1,400 Jews in one terrible day, injured thousands, and saw the abduction of over 240 infants, children, teens, women, the elderly and Israeli soldiers, there will not be a next time, for there will not be a Hamas to render service to the death-cult they indulge in.

The fiction that Hamas repeats ad infintum of its victimhood status to engender empathy among 'human rights defenders' exploits the rank stupidity of human nature that simplistically skims the surface of any issue to embrace any slander directed against the reputation of Jews, guided by their engrained cultural antisemitism. "We did not want to harm civilians", said Hamad, in speaking to a Lebanese reporter; when in fact civilians were the target.

Yet the Western world, in particular the European Union, and certainly that great institutional arbiter of human rights, you know the one that has elected the Islamic Republic of Iran to chair the United Nations' human rights tribunal? -- calls for Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire to save the Palestinian Gazans who tolerated and elected Hamas as their leaders and still support the Hamas movement to this very day, from further bloodshed.

Respond to Hamas as it has invited Israel to do? The carnage that Hamas enjoyed in Israel is not enjoyed by the Israel Defense Forces, but it has an obligation to its state, to its people, to justice and sanity, to obliterate Hamas, and it must fulfill that duty. Should they fail in this enterprise, the further existence of the state of Israel will continue to be fraught with ongoing terrorist attacks. They cannot, and will not fail.

Residents of Kibbutz Kfar Azza hold posters displaying a photo of young hostages taken by Hamas terrorists during a demonstration in solidarity with members of the community in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday. (Oded Balilty/Associated Press)