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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-866840
Hamas Fights for Power Built on a Mountain of Corpses
(Jerusalem Post) Salem Alketbi - Anyone who examines the rhetoric of Hamas will quickly discover it is a project of organized death. It is a system that turns blood into political currency and suicide into a collective identity. Hamas was built on the lethal formula: "If you kill, you are a hero; if you are killed, you are a martyr in heaven." This equation leaves no room for an ordinary person to choose their own life, dignity, or future. In their world, a hero is one who blows himself up among others because he is guaranteed a direct path to heaven. The true tragedy of this dark and regressive ideology is that death is an absolute obligation. Followers must either kill or be killed. Every tragedy is turned into publicity. A grieving mother is not left to mourn; she is forced to stand heroically before the cameras, shouting that her sons are all potential martyrs. A widow is turned into a symbol of piety and endurance. As for the children, their fate is predetermined. They are the "cubs of the cause," and their next step is not toward school but down the path to another death. In essence, Hamas operates death factories, producing the dead while preparing the living to be their ready replacements. Hamas invests in the business of death, which it sells to the gullible and the deluded. The more corpses pile up, the higher Hamas's political stock rises. For Hamas, victory is not peace. It is the rising death toll. This perverse logic desecrates the sanctity of human life. Hamas is fighting for power built on a mountain of corpses. It is not liberating a people; it is bleeding them dry. The writer is a UAE political analyst.