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** Hamas's Dream: Turning Palestinians Into a 'Nation of Martyrs' ([link removed])
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • July 28, 2025 at 5:00 am
* [Hamas official Ghazi] Hamad made the threat [to carry out more massacres against Israelis... until Israel was annihilated] from Qatar, where he and several other leaders of Hamas have been leading comfortable lives for the past few years.
* Hamas's leaders do not care if another 50,000 Palestinians are "martyred" in the war they started in 2023. The more bodies pile up, the more they can blame Israel.
* It is easy for someone well-fed and sitting in a villa or hotel in Doha to talk about the suffering and pain of others in a war far away.
* Hamad and the Hamas leaders sheltering in Doha and Istanbul should be apologizing to the two million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip... In fact, they should be arrested and put on trial for their crimes against both Israelis and Palestinians.
* Hamas also has no problem lying to Trump and US envoy Steve Witkoff, as they have probably already figured out.
* After months of direct and indirect negotiations with Hamas, Trump and Witkoff have finally understood that Hamas is not acting in good faith and, as Trump put it, "want to die." To be more accurate, it is not Hamas's leaders who want to die. Instead, they want ordinary Palestinians to die so that the leaders can stay in power forever and remain wealthy -- some are, or were, billionaires.
* Since its establishment in the late 1980s, Hamas has been consistent and clear about its goals: the elimination of Israel through jihad. That is the real reason Hamas has never accepted any peace process with Israel. That is also the real reason Hamas views as traitors those Palestinians who recognize Israel's right to exist and are willing to make peace with Israel.
* Meanwhile, Hamas's leaders evidently do not mind if dozens of Palestinians are killed and wounded every day, because the international pressure is directed against Israel.

If Hamas leaders really cared about the suffering and pain of their people, they would have released all the hostages, disarmed and relinquished control of the Gaza Strip long ago. Hamas leaders, however, seem determined to turn all the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip into a "nation of martyrs." Pictured: Hamad is interviewed on October 24, 2023 on Lebanon's LBC TV. (Image source: MEMRI)

On October 24, 2023, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad threatened that his Iran-backed terror group would carry out more massacres against Israelis -- time and again until Israel was annihilated. Referring to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel that resulted in the murder of more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, Hamad said:

"The Al-Aqsa Flood [the name Hamas uses to describe its October 7 slaughter] is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth.... Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs."

Hamad, whose group continues to hold captive 50 Israeli hostages (only 20 of whom are believed to be alive) repeated Hamas's call for the elimination of Israel:

"The existence of Israel is illogical. The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears."

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