Castigating Hamas has become an international fad. Across the West, and particularly in Israel, public figures condemn Hamas and berate it with multifarious terms of abuse on media channels and from every public podium. The more such condemnation of Hamas appears to be mordant and excruciating, the more it emerges as a redemptive process of self-purification, typical of every generation's prudes.

The West has fallen in love with its own lies.



However, launching the poisonous arrows of censure at Hamas alone, as the epitome of evil and the ultimate obstacle to every prospect of reconciliation, is not necessarily indicative of virtue and greatness of mind. In general, the sweeping condemnation of Hamas reflects the extent to which the West has fallen in love with its own lies. So much so, that it has been driven to the point of fundamental misconception of the reality in which it fumbles its way.


Hamas is indeed murderous, abusive and recalcitrant, but it can boast a basic advantage, by which it outshines many others: it is the real thing. Hamas compels us into focusing our reluctant eyes straight into reality. The overwhelming reality encroaches upon our sanity once we are bold enough to cast a close-up glance at it, so that, in every possible manner, we attempt to circumvent any direct visual contact with it. However, when the unsavoury reality is exposed before our eyes and intimately imposed on us, it is most convenient to point our blaming finger at Hamas.


Not surprisingly, the USA is the most bitter enemy of Hamas, which indulges in the bad manner of undermining well-established American lies. America, which ardently nurtures the cult of the "politically correct," prefers to wallow in the quagmire of moral and cultural decadence, wrapped up in its fine veneer of sublime values. It is the same USA, the population of which amounts to only four percent of the world population, that consumes about 25 percent of the world's energy resources. It is the USA that preaches to the entire world on morality, but at the same time, features as the star polluter of the globe, deteriorating it to the verge of ecological catastrophe.


The USA avows its most staunch friendship to Israel, but at the same time, channels her into the treacherous path of disaster-begetting, Judenfrei land plans. Those pernicious plans are, first and foremost, foiled by Hamas, for its own motives and interests, dusting away the grimy layers of fraud and counterfeit accumulated on them. Hamas is the only factor that is capable of curing us from the delirious addiction to the narcotic peace potion before it's too late.


Above all, only Hamas is endowed with the power to force us, Jews, to contemplate our unfortunate image reflected from the mirror of Israeli reality. With a razor-blade sharpness, Hamas confronts us with a truth invoked from the roots of our spiritual identity: 'If you are indeed the Jews that have returned home, then prove it; otherwise, if you are

Without inhibitions of political correctness, Hamas flings the purest truth in our faces.

 just impostors, then go away".


Moreover, without inhibitions of political correctness, Hamas flings the purest truth in our faces, the truth we fear so much, up to the point of escapism into mental hideouts of denial and suppression. The self-demanding message is openly conveyed to us by the Hamas: 'If you have in mind to get entrenched here along the coastal plain within a noisy, dense and polluted ghetto, teeming with towers, real estate, carnivals, pride parades and non-stop urban buzzing, then forget it. This kind of story is already behind us. There isn't any justification for yet another Crusader Kingdom in a pseudo-Jewish style. You don't fathom the Holy Land, and you don't deserve it.'


The more we understand that Hamas is an indispensable essence of present-day reality, the deeper we shall be able to perceive its fierce nature. For Hamas is an inevitable product of our substance, and it scourges us with the whip of truth and wakes us up from the twilight zone of lies, illusions and self-delusions.