Hamas is Only Part of the Problem

Of all the anti-Israel terrorist organisations, Hamas is undoubtedly the most successful not only in terms of the number of victims it has claimed among the Israeli population in recent decades, with 7 October as the lowest point, but also in political and administrative terms. In 2007, Hamas was the only terrorist organisation to establish and maintain a de facto independent ‘Palestinian’ state in the Gaza Strip, equipped with an enormous military force.

As a competitor to secular terrorist organisations such as the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the orthodox Islamic Hamas, founded in 1987, specialised from 1990 onwards in suicide bombings against Israeli civilian targets, including buses and restaurants. In addition, since 2003, increasingly massive rocket attacks have been carried out from the Gaza Strip against Israeli civilian targets.

Successful terrorists are promised an Islamic paradise, as are aspiring ‘martyrs’. There are now countless numbers of them. Entire generations of Gazans have been systematically brainwashed by Hamas (with the help of the UN agency UNRWA) from kindergarten age with the idea that it is better to die in the holy war against the Jews than to live for Palestine.

Undesirable Election Result

In 2005, Israel withdrew completely from the Gaza Strip. The following year, elections were held for the Palestinian National Council in the areas then administered by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea and Samaria, plus the Gaza Strip. These were won by Hamas, not least because of the implicit but clear Hamas message that the Oslo Accords were passé and that the struggle against the Jewish state must be intensified until its destruction. The election results were not accepted (not even by Israel, the EU, or the US), which led to violent confrontations between the old guard of Fatah on the one hand and Hamas on the other. Ultimately, Hamas managed to gain complete control over the Gaza Strip, while the PA/PLO remained in power in the‘Palestinian’ parts of Judea and Samaria.

The democratic experiment has obviously not been repeated. Certainly now, with the triumph of 7 October on its banner, Hamas would win elections by a landslide. Under Hamas rule, the Gaza Strip was transformed into a giant terror base with military assistance from Iran and financial assistance from Qatar, facilitated by its benevolent neighbour, Egypt. From there, Israeli civilian targets were attacked with increasingly heavy rockets on an ever-larger scale. This led to limited Israeli counteroffensives in 2008-2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021, and at the end of 2023 to the devastating war that is currently still ongoing.

Muslim Brotherhood

Hamas does not stand alone, and this explains its great success. It is a spearhead of the globally active Muslim Brotherhood, which is directed from Qatar. This wealthy oil and gas state, which undermines the international legal order, has long been Hamas’s most important financial, ideological, logistical, and political pillar, alongside NATO member Turkey, Iran, and Israel’s ‘peace partner’ Egypt. Qatar is Hamas; it openly directs and houses Hamas institutions and leaders. Qatari spokespeople and media even openly hailed the 7 October massacre as ‘heroic’. At the same time, the Qataris act on behalf of Hamas as ‘noble’ negotiators for the release of Israeli hostages, whether they have already been murdered or not.

World Caliphate

None of this is surprising. Central tenets of the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, led by Qatar, are the worldwide spread of the orthodox variant of Sunni Islam by any means necessary; the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel; and the global extermination of the Jews, including those in New York, Melbourne and Amsterdam. In its charter (1988), Hamas calls itself “one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine” and calls on Muslims to kill all Jews.

It is naive and dangerous to characterise Hamas as a nationalist organisation seeking to establish an independent Palestinian-Arab state alongside Israel.
The concept of (nation) states is contrary to fundamental Islamic doctrines and (consequently) to the uncompromising primary goal of the Muslim Brotherhood: the establishment of a global caliphate.

Al-Jazeera

Qatar’s export of the global Muslim Brotherhood agenda is being carried out, among other things, through the financial corruption of Western universities and through the internationally operating media organisation Al-Jazeera, which has elevated the multilingual dissemination of sophisticated anti-Israel, anti-Western, and Islamic propaganda to a true art form. Al-Jazeera ‘journalists’ were also visibly active in the atrocities of 7 October, as well as in their aftermath. For example, Noa Argamani, a hostage freed by Israeli commandos on 6 June 2024, was held in the home of Al-Jazeera journalist Abdallah Aljamal, who tried to prevent the rescue operation by force of arms and was killed in the process.

Qatar is Hamas, a deadly enemy of the Jewish people and Western civilisation.

King Willem-Alexander of The
Netherlands

In this context, the following words of the Dutch King Willem-Alexander are not only surprising but even more seriously disturbing. They were spoken on 24 June 2024, during the state visit of the Qatari Emir Al Thani to the
Netherlands: “Qatar has proven itself to be a stable pillar of the international legal order and a committed partner within multilateral institutions. […] In the bitter conflict between Israel and Hamas, which has been accompanied by so many atrocities, you continue to tirelessly seek ways to end the violence. Qatar and the Netherlands pursue the same goal: peace in the region. […] Your visit confirms the ever-broadening and deepening relationship between our countries. This bond is dear to us.”