Hamas and their mates are sooking for themselves

There would have been no deaths in Gaza for protesters to protest were it not for the declaration of war that was Hamas’s October 7 blood and rape orgy, writes Tim Blair.

It takes a special kind of dumb arrogance to brutally victimise more than 1000 men, women and children – and then turn around and claim victimhood yourself.

Yet that’s what we’ve seen from Hamas ever since October 7. First they kill, and then they cry. And lie. Every casualty calculator in Gaza automatically adds two zeros.

Versions of this victimhood two-step have also been displayed lately during pro-Palestinian marches in Sydney, Melbourne and much else of the formerly civilised world.

Pals of Palestine arranged a sentimental ceremony in Sydney Monday night, on the first anniversary of October 7.

“We’re just planning a small candlelight vigil,” one organiser said, “to commemorate those that have been killed over the past year.”

Chronology always confounds these people. They seem incapable of placing events in any kind of causal sequence – unless they can plant an initial cause so far back in time that everybody’s great-great-great-great grandparents hadn’t even been born.

Pro Palestine supporters gather during a protest at Hyde Park in Sydney. Picture: Roni Bintang/Getty Images

So they got together to mourn the deaths of those killed in Gaza, who wouldn’t have died if not for the declaration of war that was Hamas’s October 7 blood and rape orgy.

An enormous number of lives would also have been saved if Hamas released all the hostages captured on October 7.

Hamas is still holding many of them, and presumably expressing hurt feelings every time Israel tries to get them back. Similarly confused emotions were expressed here during a Sunday pro-Pally rally. “Free, free Palestine,” participants chanted. “1, 2, 3, 4. We don’t want your bloody war.”

Hezbollah has praised the pro-Palestinian protests in Australia over the weekend, posting pictures of Sunday’s rally in the Sydney CBD on the terror group’s Telegram channel.

But Hamas’s free-Palestine Stormtroopers obviously did want a bloody war. They started one, after all. And now they’re wailing because that war is being lost to a superior opponent. As usual.

Which brings us to the bright side of all this Middle Eastern apocalypse business. Hamas isn’t just losing. It’s copping the sort of losses that might just take it off the terror table.

“Hamas today is, without question, a badly diminished force,” the Washington Post delightfully reported on the weekend.

“The group has lost its top civilian leader along with dozens of military commanders and an estimated 15,000 fighters, according to regional intelligence officials. Cash and weapons stockpiles are dwindling; swathes of the Strip lie in ruins …

“Many of the group’s estimated 5700 tunnel shafts have been destroyed by Israeli bombs.”

A reminder, because too many people need one: Hamas kicked this off, and now they’re getting kicked. Don’t start none, won’t be none, as the saying goes.

The problem with Hamas is that is just never gets the message. The problem for Hezbollah, by hilarious contrast, is that they very much did get the message.

Further details have recently emerged about Israel’s Mossad counter-attacks against Hezbollah last month, firstly using explosive pagers. Not only were the devices loaded with terrorist-stopping boom juice, but they were ingeniously designed to be detonated by the terrorists themselves.

“Thousands of Hezbollah operatives got a message telling them they had received an encrypted message that required pressing two buttons – effectively forcing them to use both hands, and to be injured in both hands when the blasts occurred as they pushed the buttons,” The Times of Israel reported.

People gather outside a hospital in Baalbek in east Lebanon after communication devices exploded in Hezbollah strongholds in the country. Picture: AFP

An Israeli official pointed out, a touch redundantly, that targeted individuals who suffered injuries to both hands would be rendered “incapable to fight”.

Or much else, one imagines.

Hamas and Hezbollah are diminished on the battleground, but maintain armies of reservists in Western universities and media.

Canada-based academic Dr Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui last week revealed possibly more than she intended about the strategies of Islamic advancement under Western cover.

“You know what the colonisers didn’t count on?” Dr Sabreena, the daughter of Pakistani parents, wrote online. “Those of us born and raised in the West, in the mothership of the colony, turning on them.

“They thought we’d be forever indebted to them for their benevolence in how they imprison us. They thought they could colonise our minds like they colonised our lands.

“They didn’t know we’d take their gab and garb and use them as tools … They didn’t know their empire would eventually end by implosion.”

Just quietly, it looks like our Canadian correspondent is some kind of coloniser herself. And on multiple levels. According to an Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Dr Sabreena is “currently directing one of Canada’s largest government-funded Equity Diversity and Inclusion initiatives”.

Hands up if you’d prefer to live in a world free of such horrors. And my sincere apologies for triggering any handless Hezbollah readers.

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