In this video, he goes on a little talk show on the Arabic version of Russia Today—a.k.a. Russian State Television. It looks like a perfectly ordinary news show, the kind you would see in America, only they are calmly talking about wanton murders, mass rapes and the decapitation of babies. The interviewer even smiles sometimes:
You have to understand that this guy represents the racist lunatics of Hamass, and what he is saying is calculated to achieve their ends. He still might let his guard down here and there, but you have to keep in mind that his goal isn’t likely to tell the truth, but to say the things that he thinks will help his cause.
The first thing to note is that he basically threatened Joe Biden, saying that Biden is against the Palestinians and ‘he must pay the price’ for that.
Second, there are several parts where he suggested that Russia is to some degree on their side. Russia asked what they were up to after the attack, according to this spokesmodel for an organization that butchers babies. Russia expressed sympathy, the baby butcher spokesmodel said. The strangest part was where this man who not ashamed to represent mass rapists said that they got a supposed license to make Kalashnikov bullets. Perhaps we are ignorant of something, but were they worried that if they didn’t get that license that someone in Russia would sue them? ‘Sure, we will decapitate little babies, but we draw the line at violating someone intellectual property rights!’
Look, Russia is run by a dictator who might see a benefit increasing global instability. And Putin is almost certainly glad we are focusing on Israel and not Ukraine. But at the same time, Hamass would probably prefer that we focus on Ukraine, too, and therefore has every reason to say whatever they had to, to keep as much anger directed at Russia as possible. So, they have an incentive to lie and hurt Russia. But it doesn’t follow that what he said is a lie.
But, it is not lost on us that this is on
Russia Today. One has to assume that you aren’t going to see anything on their network unless they think it is going to be broadly pleasing to the powers that be in Russia. Including, apparently smiling as we discuss mass rapes and beheading babies.
Third, they indicated that Hezbollah had joined the fight. Which relates to a story we are working on as we speak.
But to us, the most important part is when they describe themselves. We’ve often used this cartoon (made by someone else) to encapsulate the difference between Israel and its enemies:
And, well, this Hamass spokesmodel agrees, saying:
The Israelis are known to love life. We, on the other hand, sacrifice ourselves. We consider our dead to be martyrs. The thing any Palestinian desires the most is to be martyred for the sake of Allah, defending his land.
We don’t assume he is right when he claims to speak for all Palestinians, but we take this words seriously as the philosophy of Hamass. The Israelis love life. Hamass loves death. In fact, Hamass thinks that all Palestinians love death, which means they have no problem with even little Palestinian babies being killed in the crossfire.
And from a certain perspective it makes sense—you know, if you are a sociopath. The Palestinian babies die as martyrs, they get to live in heaven for eternity, and they help to score propaganda points for the cause. It’s sick, and it suggests that if we normal people don’t want to see Hamass endangering Palestinian civilians, then maybe we need to stop giving them the propaganda victory they normally get from it. In other words, stop blaming Israel when Hamass hides its weapons and fighters in schools, mosques and hospitals …
… and Isrealis can only destroy them by destroying those buildings. Start blaming Hamass for making those buildings military targets in the first place.
