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Video: If You Want to Encourage Normalization and Peace, You Need to Remove the Enemies of Peace
(JNS TV) Dr. Dan Diker and Khaled Abu Toameh - Abu Toameh: Almost every night, Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned TV network which is an official mouthpiece of Hamas, broadcasts programs in Arabic glorifying the Hamas fighters who are trapped in the tunnels of Rafah in southern Gaza, calling them heroes and praising them for not surrendering, praising them for remaining steadfast inside the tunnels without food, presenting them as a model for sacrifice and for martyrdom to the younger people inside Gaza. It's seen among many of them as a sign that Hamas fighters are willing to fight to the last person. They don't want to give Israel the victory image. This is very important to them. It's all about perception. The last thing Hamas needs is Hamas terrorists walking out of these tunnels in their underwear and with their hands raised. Hamas knows that once you have images like that, you've handed Israel the image of victory that it wants, and you've actually destroyed Hamas's reputation or image, not only among Palestinians, but in the entire Arab and Muslim world. No one is talking about normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia anymore. What happened to normalization between Israel and Indonesia? There's no talk about it because Hamas and the Islamic Jihad and other Islamist groups are standing on their feet. If you want to encourage or promote normalization and peace, you need to get rid of or destroy and remove the enemies of peace. It's a very simple equation. That's how it works. Hamas's slogan is jihad until victory or martyrdom. Victory means I destroy you. And if I don't destroy you, then I'd rather die than surrender. This is what is driving these Islamist groups, not only Hamas. It's jihad, jihad, jihad. People don't understand this ideology, this mindset. People tend to underestimate it or judge it through Western eyes and this is a big mistake. You need to listen very carefully to what these jihadis are saying. They are saying, "I will continue to fight until I destroy you, and if I don't destroy you, I will become a martyr." There's no third option.