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Hatred of Hamas Doesn't Alter the Endemic Palestinian Hatred of Israel and the Jews

(JNS) Melanie Phillips - Some people are misinterpreting the demonstrations against Hamas as a sign that the Gazans are people who are fit to produce an alternative form of self-government. That's a delusion. This is a population that over many generations has been indoctrinated with the myth that their highest calling is to murder Israelis and appropriate all their land. They have been turned into fanatics in the cause of genocidal Islamic holy war by the unremitting transmission of Nazi-style propaganda that the Jews are a demonic conspiracy of blood-sucking parasites that must be eliminated from the world. The fact that some now hate Hamas doesn't change any of that. The demonstrators are the same people who, on Oct. 7, poured into Israel across the shattered border fence behind the Hamas stormtroopers and themselves took part in that barbaric orgy of rape, slaughter and kidnapping. They are the same people who jeered at, abused and desecrated the bodies of the Israelis who were dragged into Gaza. The hostages who have returned have said that they were shown no kindness by the ordinary Gazans who held them captive in their houses. Not one Gazan shielded them or helped them escape. The Arabs living in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria are similarly indoctrinated. Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority led by the allegedly "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas, has repeatedly celebrated the Oct. 7 atrocities. Opinion polling has shown that the Palestinian Arabs in these territories overwhelmingly support further such attacks against Israeli Jews. There's never been another conflict like this, where people who set out to exterminate another people and its homeland but lose that war then become the focus of global sympathy and can dictate the policies of the world. In other conflicts, if aggressors lose the war of conquest they have waged, they are in no position to dictate to anyone. As aggressors, they have forfeited the right to have any say over their future. Yet despite the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have waged a campaign of extermination against the Jewish homeland for the best part of a century, they've been treated with kid gloves and have dictated the global agenda. They are indeed victims - not of Israel but of the lies with which their own Arab world has enslaved them to a cult of death and destruction. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.
2025-04-08 00:00:00
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