Ben-Dror Yemini: Hamas loses war in Gaza but wins it in US, West
Hamas' ideology is the elimination of Jews.PMW: Why does the US criticize its ally while supporting those who demonize it?
Hamas is part of the global jihad that declares its goal as taking over the world to establish a dark Islamist imperialist vision.
Those leading the student protests on campuses support genocide.
They started burning Israeli and American flags and waving Hamas and Hizbullah flags, while supporting the Houthis and Iran.
The axis of evil led by Iran and jihad has wide support.
The protesters seem to think they want to stop the war. They're only fueling it.
Hamas arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar looks at these students and enjoys every moment.
Hamas may be beaten in Gaza, but it's winning in the U.S. and the West.
Never in history have so many turned themselves into useful idiots for an axis of evil and terrorism.
They think they're enlightened. They're not. They're causing more and more casualties.
Why are Hamas’ allies, who are terrorizing and threatening supporters of Jews and Israel on campuses around the US, also in the same breath screaming “death to Israel” and “death to America”?UN fails to black list Hamas for rape, Israel condemns decision while US is silent
The answer is that while the US is the driving force pressuring Israel to accept PA rule in Gaza and while the PA welcomes US aid and quietly thanks it for life-saving support, the PA simultaneously demonizes the US incessantly. The PA goes so far as to claim that Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza is actually an anti-Arab and anti-Islamic US war in which Israel is merely the American tool. And now, PA-driven anti-US hate has reached the US in full force.
We are witnessing a recurring pattern. For years, Palestinian Media Watch has been warning about the PA’s Islamist Antisemitism, but the West has been ignoring the issue and on the contrary, it continued funding the PA’s Nazi-like demonization of Jews. That Islamist Antisemitism has now established itself among the mainstream of Palestinian supporters in the US and is echoed by Palestinian supporters worldwide.
One of the PA’s prominent mouthpieces, the PA’s official daily columnist Muwaffaq Matar, regularly accuses America of colonialism and of making Israel its pawn in the Middle East.
“We always emphasize that our main problem is with the US and the colonialist states that planned and actively contributed to establishing Israel, and they established it on the Palestinian people’s homeland (Palestine) [parentheses in source] with the rank of their main worker in the region! As long as this is the situation, [Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar] Ben Gvir will continue as he does to knead [US President Joe] Biden’s flour with the blood of the Palestinian people in general, and of the hundreds of thousands of hungry in the Gaza Strip in particular.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 3, 2024]
Matar was particularly triggered of late by the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling to provide the PA with full UN membership. In response, he lashed out at the US, labeling it “the mind behind the conspiracy against the Palestinian people”:
The United Nations omitted Hamas from its blacklist of state and non-state parties guilty of sexual violence in 2023, due to a lack of what it deemed to be credible evidence.
The blacklist was part of a larger annual report on sexual violence authored by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, which was completed this month and debated Tuesday at the UN Security Council.
Guterres’s April report described sexual violence in 18 conflict settings or situations of concern, including the Hamas-led October invasion of Israel and Russia’s war against Ukraine.
But it found that credible evidence that met UN criteria was strong enough in only 11 of those situations such that it could blacklist the responsible parties. Neither Hamas nor Russia were among those parties that met that criteria and were not included on the list.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he was “disgusted” by the report in a statement released to the media, while the UNSC debate took place on what would have been the first day of Passover in the US.
'Secretary-General sides with Hamas'
Katz called it a “failure in a long series of failures” by the UN and its institutions, which had not once condemned Hamas for the October 7 attack in which over 1,200 people were killed and 253 hostages were seized.
“Guterres has turned the UN into an extremely antisemitic and anti-Israel institution during his tenure which will be remembered as the darkest in the organization’s history,” Katz said.
He added that he was convinced that if the UN had existed during the Holocaust and in the lead-up to it, and “if the crimes of the Nazis had come up for debate, he [Guterres] would have refused to denounce them if it suited his political interests.”
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield welcomed the report and mentioned its inclusion of the Hamas-led October 7 attack when she addressed the UNSC on Tuesday.
“From Nigeria to Israel, Myanmar to Sudan, Haiti to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we have seen terrorist groups, criminal gangs, and non-state armed groups abducting and sexually exploiting women and girls. We’ve seen rape being used as a tool of war.
“And I’ll note that the report calls for the release of the nearly 3,000 Yazidis who are still missing, as well as hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other terrorist groups from Israel on October 7. We know from UN reporting that many of these hostages have experienced sexual violence while in captivity,” she said.
But Thomas-Greenfield did not mention Hamas’s omission from the blacklist of perpetrators attached to the report.