Hamas: Gaza’s True Enemy and Oppressor

Since the most recent outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7^th, countless political actors and pundits have attempted to curry support for the Palestinian cause by re-framing Hamas as a cohort of embattled freedom fighters who struggle on behalf of a beleaguered Palestinian people.

In fact, after Israel recently dispatched Hamas’ leader, Yahya Sinwar, a litany of criticism for the state of Israel and sympathy for the ‘Butcher of Khan Younis’ erupted from the depths of the international political system.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that Hamas has routinely been romanticized and misconstrued as a valiant contingent of freedom fighters by various pro-Palestinian ‘allies’, it is readily apparent that Hamas is absolutely unconcerned with the plight of the Palestinian people.

Rather, throughout the modern era, Hamas has happily remained a tyrant in Palestine and brutally oppressed the Palestinian people.

Firstly, Hamas’ leadership routinely embezzles the overwhelming majority of any international aid and funding, in order to grotesquely enrich themselves and viciously attack the people of Israel.

For example, Hamas has imposed a wide variety of exorbitant ‘taxes’ on all aid humanitarian aid supplies that enter Gaza. Furthermore, Hamas’ leaders routinely refuse to pay for electricity in Gaza, in order to, instead, misappropriate the funds towards their own hellish military endeavors and attacks against the state of Israel. In fact, data shows that “Hamas allocates 55% of its budget to fund its military needs and…less than 5%…[of its budget towards] the rehabilitation of Gaza…”

As a result, Palestinians have been left utterly bereft of vital infrastructure, as well as countless basic necessities, such as clean drinking water, food, electricity, schools, and hospitals. Even Hamas’ commanders and leaders are themselves routinely forced to travel to Israel in order to receive medical services and treatment, despite their own respective, vigorous, desire to force every last Israeli and Jew ‘into the sea’.

Moreover, Hamas eagerly precludes various vulnerable populations and minorities in Palestine from their fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Homosexuality, for instance, is completely illegal in Gaza. In fact, anyone who is even suspected of homosexuality is inevitably arraigned and slaughtered by Hamas or their compatriots. Verily, the United Nations (UN) itself has identified the safety, human rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ people in Palestine as an area of grave concern, and LGBTQ+ Palestinians are actually frequently forced to escape from Palestine to the State of Israel, in order to live safely, openly, and freely.

In addition, women throughout Palestine and Gaza have long been explicitly divorced from various fundamental human rights, such as ‘personal liberty’ and ‘freedom of expression’. For example, Palestinian women are unable to travel freely within Palestine or to exit the Palestinian territories without the oversight and express permission of a male guardian.

Furthermore, Hamas has permitted sexual assault to become rampant in Gaza and girls of all ages are routinely brutalized and forced into marriages against their will. Sadly, women and girls in Gaza are also frequently the subject of ‘honor killings’ at the behest of Hamas, and, from 2015-2020, the total number of femicides in Palestine actually increased by more than 100%.

In fact, although countless North American political actors and pundits furiously preoccupy themselves with abolishing the State of Israel and enthusiastically condone Palestinian terrorist organizations from afar, the Palestinian people themselves are not at all immediately concerned with affecting the ouster or annihilation of the State of Israel.

Rather, the Palestinian people desperately desire to rid themselves of brutal organizations and tyrants, such as Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas.

For example, in 2022, scores of Palestinian people and pro-Palestinian activists inundated Twitter, in order to proclaim their hopelessness and confirm their dire plight to the world via the hashtag #TheyKidnappedGaza. Even Amer Balosha, one of the modern era’s most courageous pro-Palestinian activists, bravely risked his own life in order to publicly reveal that “Hamas has billions of dollars in investments in many countries, while people [in Gaza] starve to death and migrate in search of work…”

Moreover, the “…longest-running and most comprehensive public opinion project in the [Middle East], Arab Barometer…” has recently confirmed that over 67% of Gazans are deeply distrustful of Hamas. In addition, Arab Barometer’s study has revealed that 72% of Gazans believe that Hamas and its government institutions are overwhelmingly corrupt and that “The people of Gaza are disillusioned not only with Hamas but with the entire Palestinian leadership.”

More importantly, Arab Barometer’s landmark study has vigorously reaffirmed that “…Gazans do not share Hamas’s goal of eliminating the state of Israel.” and that “When presented with three possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…the majority of survey respondents…favored the two-state solution outlined in the 1993 Oslo accords.”

Despite the fact that various political actors and pundits have attempted to cultivate support for the Palestinian cause by misconstruing Hamas as a band of hapless freedom fighters who struggle bravely on behalf of a fatally oppressed Palestinian people, it is clear that Hamas is itself a tyrant in Palestine and an enemy to every Palestinian man, woman, and child.

Furthermore, although political pundits, organizations, and politicians throughout North America continue to claim that the state of Israel must cease to exist in order for the Palestinian people to be free, it is readily apparent that anyone who earnestly seeks to help the Palestinian people must unequivocally strive to confront Hamas and expel its extremist blight from within the Palestinian Territories, not endeavor to abolish the state of Israel or eradicate the Jewish people.

In fact, it is clear that anyone who still attempts to peddle the tattered narrative that ‘the state of Israel must be abolished in order for the Palestinian people to be free’ inevitably seeks only to leverage the real suffering of Palestinians and Jews alike towards their own selfish interests and personal gain.

Alas, every last Jew could vanish into the sea alongside the State of Israel.

And yet, until Hamas has been thoroughly decimated and exiled from Gaza, the Palestinian people will still remain brutally oppressed and in bondage at the hands of their compatriots.