2 June 2025

Israel's dilemma: How to end a war with a jihadist death cult? - opinion


How do you permanently end a war with a Jihadist death cult deeply embedded in a population of 2.2 million people, dedicated to your annihilation, which openly proclaims its objectives?

A death cult that, having committed barbaric atrocities over 19 months ago, followed by indiscriminately targeting your entire population with many thousands of missiles, promises, when given the opportunity, to replicate both?

A death cult willing to enter into a cease-fire as a temporary pause but intent on retaining its munitions and renewing its war when its military capabilities are fully restored. That is Israel’s dilemma.

For Hamas and its Iranian sponsors, no sacrifice is too great. They are the vultures of humanity, political scavengers dedicated to maximising Palestinian civilian casualties to generate political support from the well-intended, politically naive, and ideological and political opportunists.

They have also learnt, like the conductor of an orchestra, how to play on the heart strings of international political leaders to recruit them as unconscious allies in their war to demonise and delegitimise Israel and undermine its capacity to win the war Hamas initiated and continues to fight.

Like the carnivorous Venus Flytrap of botanical fame, Hamas essentially embraces, entraps, and digests the Palestinians it purports to represent and then spits out their names, exploiting their deceased martyrdom to demonise its adversaries and justify its atrocities. The demonisation is then inflated by international organisations, which choose to adopt the Hamas-created narrative.

Hamas’s success in persuading many throughout the world that this is Israel’s, not Hamas’s, war is facilitated by not just Israel’s malign adversaries but also by some of its supposed friends and allies who ignore Hamas’s readily observable conduct and strategy intended to maximise and also exaggerate Palestinian casualties.

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