لن ننخدع بكم يا “حماس”
نيلس أ. هوغ/معهد غايتستون/21 تشرين الأول 2025
(ترجمة من الإنكليزية بتصرف بواسطة نار ومحرر موقع المنسقية الياس بجاني بالإستعانة بمواقع ترجمة ألكترونية)
We Are Not Fooled by You, Hamas
Nils A. Haug/Gatestone Institute/October 21, 2025
“Hamas is not just at war with Israel. It is at war with Jews, Christians, and the very foundations of civilization itself…. This is not politics, this is a religious war. Its purpose is to replace Judaism and Christianity with radical Islam. If the world does not understand this, everyone will pay the price.” — Mosab Hassan Yousef, eldest son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, JNS, August 17, 2025.
Notwithstanding peace treaties or a tenuous cessation of hostilities between Israel and its neighbors, much of the Islamic world remains at war with the West, especially with many dedicated activists, such as Qatar, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority in its midst.
Their leaders, perhaps not wishing to get into a scrape with Trump, as well as seeing the delicious prospect of being in charge of the future Gaza chicken coop — refuse to acknowledge this reality.
Many leaders in the West also would possibly prefer not to admit the risk, even though their societies are precipitously at risk of being overwhelmed by the mass immigration of Muslims — who boldly practice a competing faith founded on displacing all other faiths. Western leaders appear to wish to placate the Islamist voters in their midst, despite the harm being inflicted on their citizens — with more expected in the offing.
With the release of some 2,000 terrorists from Israel’s prisons as part of the Trump peace plan, Hamas’s forces received a timely reinforcement of their depleted ranks from this event, “None are expected to take up careers in high tech or humanitarian relief,” writes Professor Thane Rosenbaum.
While Israel may have substantially defeated Hamas militarily in the Gaza campaign, it can fittingly be said, as by columnist Dan Schnur, that “Hamas won its war against Israel in the eyes of the rest of the world”. Any success of the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic mass media can be attributed to their lies about Israel and Jews.
The escalating social and political turmoil in nations such as France, Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy and Canada can be directly attributed to domestic Islamist agitation, Muslim demographic explosion, and the spread of religious Islam throughout the infrastructure – which most leaders would rather appease than confront. With mosques being built at a rapid rate, complete with public calls to prayer over loudspeakers, and special Sharia courts, councils and schools, Islam has come to significantly dominate the landscape in the major cities of western Europe. In the UK and France, for instance, certain street scenes are reminiscent of the Muslim cities from where immigrants originated.
In Rosenbaum’s words, “Hamas is not going away easily, even if some leave. The Muslim Brotherhood’s lasting influence over the hearts and minds of Gazan society is ironclad.”
The same may well be true for the generous leaders of the sovereign wealth fund states in the Middle East, who Trump seems to be counting on to rebuild Gaza.
Or maybe Trump can actually pull it off. The time to worry about is after he is no longer president, supervising his dream of Gaza as a Riviera at peace with Israel. What if the prevailing Middle East ideology of eliminating Israel has not changed?
On October 13, 2025, at Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the company of US President Donald J. Trump, declared the war in Gaza over. Sadly, the probability of an enduring peace with Hamas or allied Islamists appears close to zero. After all, in Netanyahu’s words, Israel is dealing with “monsters.
On October 13, 2025, at Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the company of US President Donald J. Trump, declared the war in Gaza over.
Oh, really? Sadly, the probability of an enduring peace with Hamas or allied Islamists appears close to zero. After all, in Netanyahu’s words, Israel is dealing with “monsters.”
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the eldest son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, revealed the rationale behind the horrendous events in Israel on October 7, 2023: “Hamas is not just at war with Israel. It is at war with Jews, Christians and the very foundations of civilization itself.”
Western leaders, including the ever-optimistic Trump, nevertheless believe that some sort of permanent peace can now be achieved with Hamas over Gaza. There never will be, nor ever can be, an enduring peace with radical Islamists to whom the elimination of Israel is more important than “peace and prosperity,” which many of the Gulf states now enjoy anyway. To many Islamist leaders, MIGA (“Make Islam Great Again”) and spreading it throughout the world is their pact with Allah; without it, they would have no justification to lead. Their ideology, training, indoctrination and upbringing –- so divergent from that of the West — simply does not allow it.
“This is not politics,” Mosab Hassan Yousef states, “this is a religious war. Its purpose is to replace Judaism and Christianity with radical Islam. If the world does not understand this, everyone will pay the price.”
Notwithstanding peace treaties or a tenuous cessation of hostilities between Israel and its neighbors, much of the Islamic world remains at war with the West, especially with many dedicated activists, such as Qatar, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority in its midst.
Their leaders, perhaps not wishing to get into a scrape with Trump, as well as seeing the delicious prospect of being in charge of the future Gaza chicken coop — refuse to acknowledge this reality.
Many leaders in the West also would possibly prefer not to admit the risk, even though their societies are precipitously at risk of being overwhelmed by the mass immigration of Muslims — who boldly practice a competing faith founded on displacing all other faiths. Western leaders appear to wish to placate the Islamist voters in their midst, despite the harm being inflicted on their citizens — with more expected in the offing. The perturbing fact is that, according to the CIA, the top fifteen of the world’s largest terror organizations are all radical Islamist to their core.
Given the chance, Islamists have been instructed to achieve global dominance and the imposition of an Islamic Caliphate under totalitarian Sharia law. This plan has been evident many times in the West, from the attacks on the US of 9/11/2001 to similarly-motivated attacks since then in France, Spain, Germany (here and here), Sweden and Denmark, to name just a few nations, and most recently in Hamas’s 2023 slaughter of more than 1,200 innocents of all ages, in Israel. Even so, many Marxist-anarchist activists in the privileged West — apparently affronted that Jews had survived and Israel had the audacity to successfully defend itself — rose up in support of the terrorists.
Israel’s caution towards the ceasefire with Hamas and associates was validated in the past few days when, upon partial withdrawal of Israel’s forces, Hamas immediately commenced a campaign of retribution in Gaza against rivals and anyone who they believed opposed their rule. Dozens of members of local clans – fellow Palestinians – were executed extrajudicially or killed in planned attacks. “The terrorists’ brazen post-ceasefire crackdown on rivals and dissidents,” commented journalist Jonathan Tobin, “mocks Trump’s promise to disarm them and shows they believe that they’re not going anywhere.”
In attacking domestic opponents, Hamas’s aim is evidently to reassert control of Gaza and this agenda reveals not only their determination not to surrender their weapons, despite commitments to do so, and instead to maintain their dominance.
With the release of some 2,000 terrorists from Israel’s prisons as part of the Trump peace plan, Hamas’s forces received a timely reinforcement of their depleted ranks from this event, “None are expected to take up careers in high tech or humanitarian relief,” writes Professor Thane Rosenbaum. “Terrorism is their chosen profession. Jihad their destiny. Martyrdom, a sacred calling.”
The publication of hand-written memorandum by the late Hamas leader, Yehya Sinwar, in preparation for the October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, exposed the mindset of Hamas. The instructions, in the “Name of Allah the Most Merciful,” include acts such as “trampling on the heads of soldiers and shooting them at point-blank range, slaughtering some with knives, blowing up tanks, and capturing prisoners kneeling with their hands on their heads.” Their commanders were told to “deliberately create these events, film them, and broadcast the images as quickly as possible.”
Analyst Martin Kear writes that “the peace plan negotiated by US President Donald Trump looks shakier by the day.” He elaborates, “Hamas will not go quietly. And this is a very real danger to peace and security in Gaza, especially if Hamas sees any resistance to its authority from the clans as little more than a proxy war with Israel.” Given the fruitless history of peace accords involving Palestinians, the conflict could well muddle on endlessly.
While Israel may have substantially defeated Hamas militarily in the Gaza campaign, it can fittingly be said, as by columnist Dan Schnur, that “Hamas won its war against Israel in the eyes of the rest of the world”. Any success of the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic mass media can be attributed to their lies about Israel and Jews (such as here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
The consequence of Islamist propaganda is that Western leaders have been captured by those same lies. Only last month, France, the UK, Canada, and other countries recognized a non-existent “Palestinian state” at the United Nations General Assembly, in a motion adopted by a majority of UN member states. With an impressive dose of dissemblance, the UK claimed to have played an important part in Trump’s ceasefire deal with Hamas. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee quickly called that claim “delusional.”
What was impressive was to see international leaders falling all over themselves to get onto a stage at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt with Trump to celebrate the ceasefire. Revealingly, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was not even invited.
Ironically, with the Gazan war halted, it would be expected that pro-Palestinian activists would be satisfied. Not so. Most likely, their protests were never about peace with the Palestinians, only about eliminating Israel — and probably Jews. While Israel compromised its position wherever possible to appease the Western powers, particularly the US, it does hold firm to certain “red lines” where its national security is concerned, and rightly so. Israel’s steadfastness to national interest is what feeble and hapless Western leaders like France’s Macron, Britain’s Starmer, Canada’s Carney, and their weak circles pretend they do not understand.
The escalating social and political turmoil in nations such as France, Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy and Canada can be directly attributed to domestic Islamist agitation, Muslim demographic explosion, and the spread of religious Islam throughout the infrastructure – which most leaders would rather appease than confront. With mosques being built at a rapid rate, complete with public calls to prayer over loudspeakers, and special Sharia courts, councils and schools, Islam has come to significantly dominate the landscape in the major cities of western Europe. In the UK and France, for instance, certain street scenes are reminiscent of the Muslim cities from where immigrants originated.
Describing a briefing given last year by Ruth Wasserman Lande, former Deputy Ambassador of Israel to Egypt, the website EU Today writes: “Despite the existence of over 500 mosques in the city, an increasing number of Muslims now choose to pray in public areas such as Whitehall, Parliament Square, alongside Buckingham Palace, Kensington Gardens, and Hyde Park…. “‘It’s not just about prayer,’ Lande explained, ‘it’s a territorial statement. They are asserting their presence and influence in key public spaces.'”
In this way, Islamists demonstrate their authority over public spaces and society itself. And the West’s leaders blindly, if not recklessly, sell out their nations’ cultures, religious ethos, and futures. The radical Islamic agenda since the 7th century seems to be to eradicate all “infidels”, first by killing all the Jews, and so take over the world for Allah.
After all, taqiyya (mandated dissimulation in the service of Islam) is part of the jihadist strategy in concealing their aim of global domination under Sharia law. In Rosenbaum’s words, “Hamas is not going away easily, even if some leave. The Muslim Brotherhood’s lasting influence over the hearts and minds of Gazan society is ironclad.” The same may well be true for the generous leaders of the sovereign wealth fund states in the Middle East, who Trump seems to be counting on to rebuild Gaza. Last week, when a ceasefire was announced to the world, Gazans took to the streets and chanted “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud!”, referencing the Islamic prophet Mohammed’s massacre of Jews in Arabia in the year 628. Or maybe Trump can actually pull it off. The time to worry about is after he is no longer president, supervising his dream of Gaza as a Riviera at peace with Israel. What if the prevailing Middle East ideology of eliminating Israel has not changed?
**Nils A. Haug is an author and columnist. A Lawyer by profession, he is member of the International Bar Association, the National Association of Scholars, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Dr. Haug holds a Ph.D. in Apologetical Theology and is author of ‘Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity’; and ‘Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age.’ His work has been published by First Things Journal, The American Mind, Quadrant, Minding the Campus, Gatestone Institute, National Association of Scholars, Jewish Journal, James Wilson Institute (Anchoring Truths), Jewish News Syndicate, Tribune Juive, Document Danmark, Zwiedzaj Polske, Schlaglicht Israel, and many others.
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