Hamas and the Growth of Aggressive Power

During this war between Israel and Hamas, people wanted ceasefire. At the time of this writing, there is ceasefire. Now we should talk about Hamas, we should talk about Terrorism. Of course, so many people are still focused on Israel, as if Israel was the “villain”.

Some people in press are saying Israel made strikes again, during the ceasefire, “claiming” that Hamas broke the ceasefire. Israel is not simply claiming, they showed evidence, and they reacted according to the terms of the ceasefire.

During the war, people acted as if they were so worried about the tragic consequences of the war for Gaza, that they couldn’t put Hamas as priority. What about now? How can now not be the time to talk about Terrorism? The dismantling of Hamas is the only thing that can bring peace. Do you want peace, or is your main goal to inflict some kind of punishment to Israel?

It should be easy to remember what started this war, in October 7^th. A country has borders, and an army to defend the land from foreign enemies. You look at History and you see why this is necessary. And there are things that start wars.

Like a horde of men from the neighboring region, men belonging to or sympathizers of a Terrorist group, invading the south of a country, killing civilians at random, mutilating, beheading, abusing women violently, in a real life nightmare that ended with one thousand and two hundred dead plus two hundred and fifty kidnapped.

Is this action, planned by the leadership in power of this neighboring region, a declaration of war or what? Could Israel just say, “well, they went back to their region, so we can’t go after these men, all we will do is try to improve the security”? It would be like saying, “this is the game: We do our best to improve our security, but whenever you manage to break in, no matter what you do to our people, after you go back to your region you’re free”. A State that is sworn to defend its citizens obviously can’t act like this.

Now, after the Israeli Forces fought with intelligence and sacrifice – more than nine hundred soldiers lost their lives – they were able to eliminate Terrorist infrastructure and many of their leaders, pressuring Hamas to a point where they accepted a ceasefire deal that was brought by the United States. The living hostages are back home – of the 250, 168 ended up being brought back alive in throughout these two years, and there are no more living hostages in Hamas’s power. And, as I said, there is a ceasefire.

When October 7^th happened, so many people in the World were horrified by the cruelty of that attack. But when Israel fought back, that initial feeling seemed to have been drawn by numbers. Because the civilian casualties in Gaza were many times more. But this is not about mathematics. There is a timeline here, a story with causes and consequences. Hamas, the tyrant leadership of Gaza, caused a war, and the people of Gaza unfortunately suffered consequences.

I know that many say, “most of the dead were not members of Hamas, and it includes children”. Yes, although the real numbers are probably very different than the numbers the press got from “Gaza ministry of Health” – run by Hamas, yes, the war was very tragic in that aspect.

But again, how could Israel avoid it, if they want to give the necessary safety for their people? October 7^th was the cause of the war, and 1200 people is not a small number. Read about October 7^th and imagine it was your country, if you live in a small one. If you live in a country that is many times bigger than Israel, imagine it happened in your state or province. Wasn’t there the necessity to go after the ones responsible for that?

The Israeli Forces showed the World that they try their best to warn people to evacuate areas before strikes – and how Hamas tries to prevent people from doing so. The Israeli Forces showed their efforts to mitigate civilian harm, and also undeniable evidence that Hamas built a long maze of tunnels, secret passages, an immense underground infrastructure for their Terrorist operation, embedding it with civilian life as much as they can, using Hospitals, Mosques, Schools, Residential Buildings, also operating dressed as civilians, all to make it harder for Israel to separate them from the civilians.

In World War II, many Germans died who were not active in the Nazi army. We know there was the necessity to fight that horrible expansionist power.

This is the kind of tragedy that happens when Aggressive Power is allowed to grow. When the people in power somewhere are not devoted to the wellbeing of their own people, they tyrannize their people and not only that, but also dream of destroying others. Because the Nazis grew as they grew, World War II was necessary.

Then the UN was created. I believe its goal should be to make the best not to let aggressive tyrants prosper, because that is what endangers the World. But now they make tyranny “relative” and just say the word “peace”, without solutions, when real problems happen.

To prevent aggressive power to grow, you need a set of values, everything can’t be relative. If you can’t say some forms of government are better than others – which has nothing to do with a people’s religion of ethnicity – how can you work for World’s peace?

Instead of being firm about what is acceptable and what is not in terms of the exercise of power, the UN just makes everything relative. They have bought the Academic vision of the World.

When the old Empires ended in the end of the 19^th and beginning of 20^th centuries, and the map of the whole World was redefined, the Jews legally got the small land of Israel, their Ancient Holy Land where they prayed to return to for two thousand years, with the approval of the UN. Now intellectuals want everybody to believe that Muslin Arabs  -with all respect for the decent ones - are oppressed because they "only" have 99 percent of the Middle East, the richest land in petroleum of the World. This doesn't help the honest Muslins, it helps only Terrorism.

Because, mostly, their leaders don’t give them the freedom that Israelis have, so much frustration has grown in some countries, and the same leaders canalize this anger against the Israelis, because it would be glorious for them to conquer the Holy Land of the Jews.

So this hatred against Israel have grown, more and more people became radicals, Terror has gained infrastructure, financing, equipment. Iran is behind not only Hamas, but also Hezbollah, the Houthis.

Israelis have been trying to warn the World about this for so long, but the World was too busy to be concerned with that “unsolvable part of the World”.

Then when Israel suffered a massacre – 1200 people is a massacre – and fought back, everybody got focused on asking them to stop fighting.

Now there is a ceasefire. Will the World focus on what now?

There is still so much anti-Israeli propaganda going on. Some are even talking of humanitarian aid “finally getting to Gaza”, as if Israel has not shown that there were thousands of tons of aid going in during the majority of the time of the war.

All this to avoid the simple question: “Isn’t Hamas Terrorist? Didn’t they cause this war? What should the World think about the future with Hamas there?”

I know that many leadership figures – the ones that surfed the wave of indignation against war, not even making clear with they made any difference between people who said they were just concerned with the suffering of war and the people who openly supported intifada – will say the focus should be on “repairing” things for Palestinians. But as long as Hamas is there, any resource given, any “compensation” given, will be a compensation for Hamas, because they are an absolutist power over Gaza.

Hamas existence can’t ever be dissociated of Terrorism, can’t be dissociated of aggression. Their charter says explicitly that their goal is the complete end of Israel “by any means necessary”. Israelis saw what “any means necessary” means. And they also make it clear that, because for them martyrdom is a good thing, the fighting goals are more important – much more important – than the safety of their people.

This poses to Israel a deadly question. The more a group like Hamas grows, the bigger will be the cost, in terms of lives, to defeat them when it becomes necessary. The more time passes, more the people became shields, more people will die when it becomes inevitable to fight to defeat them.

It’s definitely such a hard question. What is the right moment, then? It’s a question so complex and hard, that Israel didn’t fully attack them before October 7^th, the moment that signaled that this couldn’t go on any longer.

And let’s not forget that over this past two years, Israel also had to fight other groups with the same characteristics: the Houthis and Hezbollah – this one had all prepared for their “Operation Conquer The Galilee”, an invasion of the North of Israel bigger than October 7^th. And, of course, Israel had to destroy the nuclear program in Iran, that was undeniable on the verge of making an atomic bomb.

Now there is a ceasefire – that so many people asked for – but the time is still passing. When will come the time for the World to admit we must do something about Terrorism, put it as a priority?

Are we going to let Hamas grow again, an increase the cost of their defeat again?