Newest terrorist lie from an honor/shame culture: "The Bibas children were taken as an act of compassion for Shiri" ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, February 21, 2025

Newest terrorist lie from an honor/shame culture: "The Bibas children were taken as an act of compassion for Shiri"

People really need to understand the Palestinian honor/shame mentality.

To Hamas and Palestinians in general, humiliation is worse than death. This is why "honor killings" exist - a twisted morality where one's personal honor justifies murdering a family member.

The 1948 war was not simply a defeat - it was a "nakba," a catastrophe. Not because of the number of refugees but because they lost a war to the weak, dhimmi Jews whom they had treated as second class people for centuries.

They project their immoral mindset onto Israelis as well.

To the Palestinian mind, humiliating Israel is what makes the Gaza war a victory. Gaza could be a parking lot but they would still look at this as a win.

The entire sham of swapping hostages for murderers is designed to humiliate Israel. Spreading out the releases, doing them on Shabbat, sending the wrong body instead of Shiri, the reprehensible festivals surrounding the release of hostages and bodies - all of it is designed to maximize humiliation of Israel.

The honor/shame mindset is highly attuned to symbolism, and the grotesque Thursday ceremony with the coffins was rich in symbolism for Hamas meant to humiliate Israel - symbolism that practically no Israeli noticed.

The staged show was held in the Bani Suhaila cemetery east of Khan Yunis. This was chosen to shame Israel because that was where the IDF searched for hostages and hostage bodies but was not successful in finding any. It was also an area where, according to Hamas, they successfully ambushed IDF soldiers.

The Hamas articles happily admit that every aspect of the show was calculated to send messages to Israel of Hamas victory. The audience was chosen to represent a wide variety of Gazan society to emphasize that Hamas still controls everyone in the sector. "Leaders, scholars, government officials, clans, mukhtars, families of martyrs" plus released prisoners were at the macabre ceremony.

As one "analyst" says, "The scenes will reinforce the narrative of resistance, and will have an impact in shaking the unity of Israeli society, which was brutalized at the beginning of the Al-Aqsa flood, but now has begun the countdown to its psychological and existential loss and the reality of its existence on this land."

Kidnapping and murdering children, even Jewish children, is also shameful. Hamas therefore needs to change the narrative to make it appear honorable.

Read this account carefully:

A leader in the Al-Mujahideen Brigades revealed, during preparations to hand over the bodies of four Israeli prisoners, new details about the Israeli prisoner Shiri Bibas and her children, as well as the circumstances of their captivity.

In televised statements, the leader said, "When we captured her, we kept her children with her out of compassion, and we provided a safe and comfortable place for them, similar to how they would live in their own home. We treated her well, as instructed by our noble religion."

He added, however, "But due to the brutal bombardment by the Nazi army with a missile from an F-16 aircraft, the house was completely destroyed and leveled to the ground. This attack led to the death of the family and the martyrdom of those who were holding them captive."

The leader also disclosed that the prisoner, Shiri Bibas, was enlisted and worked as a secretary in the office of the commander of the Southern District in the Gaza Division, which is part of the Israeli army's Southern Command.

In these paragraphs the terrorists justify abducting Shiri as a combatant, claim that kidnapping her children was an act of mercy for her, that they treated her well and she was murdered by the IDF. All of these lies serve the single purpose of avoiding shame and shifting the shame onto Israel.

Lies are an integral part of honor/shame culture, because when the truth is shameful, lies are the only way out. This is why the Palestinians are so wedded to the word "narrative." Narrative is simply twisting history to achieve honor and avoid shame.

We can now expect Hamas to repeat the sickening ceremony when they insist that the woman whose body they sent instead of Shiri be swapped for Shiri herself. And they will then create a narrative around this woman as a heroic martyr who was unjustly killed by Israeli Nazis for being kind to her Jewish captives.

What people don't get is that there is no ceasefire. The public humiliation and abuse of the hostages in front of worldwide media is another phase of the war.

It is a war only being fought by one side, so it is easy for Hamas to declare victory.