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When Hamas attacked on a Jewish holiday on Oct 7, it did so under the false flag of a ceasefire. Much as it had done before. But the streets are full of Hamas supporters and their leftist allies clamoring for a “ceasefire”.
What is the Hamas definition of a ceasefire?
Pressed by NBC News to explain Hamas’ conflicting calls for a cease-fire while also pledging to keep attacking Israel, Hamad replied: “What do you want us to do? To stop?”
Journalist: How can you ask for a ceasefire when you promise to launch October 7ths again and again?
Hamas spokesperson: What do you want us to do? To stop?! pic.twitter.com/3lHAYQVIhd
— Eli Kowaz – איליי קואז (@elikowaz) November 2, 2023
That’s Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas terror leader who has been trotted out to do interviews despite his unfortunate tendency to keep saying what he actually means.
“Israel is a country that has no place on our land,” Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese news outlet LBCI news this week, according to a report and translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released on Wednesday.
“We must remove that country,” he continued.
“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…to fight.”
“Nobody should blame us. On October 7, October 10, October one million – everything we do is justified.”
That’s from an Arab language interview. On the BBC, Hamad just walked out when asked about massacring civilians.
During the interview, Hamad reiterated claims made starting a few days after the massacre that Hamas did not intend to kill any civilians during its assault.
When the interviewer stressed that many civilians were killed and asked if Hamad believed that Hamas’s murder of civilians in their beds was justified, Hamad ripped off his microphone and responded “I want to stop this interview” before storming out.
The BBC and NBC News’ Matt Bradley is about as friendly of an English language forum as Hamas could get. Bradley’s Twitter feed consists of uncritical Hamas propaganda from Gaza and from MSNBC.
But that is what a ceasefire means. It means Israel stops attacking Hamas, the Islamic terror group recovers and then launches the next attack.
Hamad has already said that the terror group intends to continue carrying out more attacks like October 7th.
Even Bernie Sanders can’t rationally defend ceasefire proposals.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible in the Israel-Hamas war with “an organization like Hamas” involved.
“I don’t know how you can have a ceasefire, (a) permanent ceasefire, with an organization like Hamas, which is dedicated to turmoil and chaos and destroying the state of Israel,” Sanders told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” Sunday.
There’s no serious argument that a ceasefire is a viable option. The only point of a ceasefire is to protect Hamas.
Ugly Sid says
I accept an anthropologist’s depiction of chimpanzees as a thousand times more violent than humans.
Except the ratio shrinks when compared to Islamists.
Kynarion Hellenis says
“Hamas” in the Bible:
Genesis 6:11: Now the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence [Hamas].
12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence [Hamas] because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.”
Algorithmic Analyst says
Hamas has been preventing civilians from leaving Gaza City, which is probably a war crime (Hamas wants to use them as human shields).
Raymond in DC says
Almost everything Hamas does is a war crime. They don’t care that we view their acts in such a light, because they believe their cause is righteous and, in any event, no one ever holds them to account.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Raymond!
Onzeur Trante says
Meanwhile, Blinken goes to Israel and the Arab states preaching hit the “pause” button while out of the other side of his mouth he says Israel has the “full support” of the United States. What a clown show. The administration has the arrogance to think that not only Americans are stupid, but also the citizens of other nations are equally as stupid. Netanyahu told Blinken no ceasefire and the Arab states showed Blinken the door because they know a stupid “diplomat” when they see one.
Sword of The Spirit says
He has a bruise ( or appears to ) from kissing Satan’s butt. When they bend to pray they point their heads to Satan and point their butts up at God.
Çâşëğ says
If Israelis agree to ceasefire they deserve no country of their own. Israelis and Jews around the world must understand. This us vs them. There is no room for another Arab state between Jordan river and The Mediterranean sea. Is either Israel or no Israel. Jews waited 2000 years to return home. No Arab or Muslim will ever eject them ever again.
Una Salus says
Mike Doran with the message that doesn’t seem to be registering with Israelis.