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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/17/the-west-is-still-committed-to-its-fatal-delusion/
The West Is Still Committed to Its Fatal Delusion about Hamas
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - The thread running through decades of Western failure to encourage peace and prosperity in the Middle East is our assumption that deep down, the Islamists are just like us. Forgive me if I view direct talks with Hamas - itself an unprecedented diplomatic move - as just more of the same painful naivete. Can a jihadi group ever be serious about disarming? Think, for a moment, of the level of fanaticism required to build 450 miles of catacombs in Gaza, then to invite the apocalypse upon your own heads with an orgy of butchery, rape, mutilation, necrophilia and kidnap, before deploying your own families as human shields above ground. Truly, these people love death as we love life. While they wish the most gruesome of deaths upon us, we continue to think the best of them. In the West, we still can't bring ourselves to accept how evil these men truly are.