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March 27, 2025

Hamas Must Be Destroyed Politically and Militarily

The organization’s “wings” can’t survive without one another.

There is another reason, I think, that the anti-Hamas demonstrations are gaining momentum, and that is the IDF’s decision to target both Hamas military commanders and members of the civilian government. By picking off the latter, it is undermining Hamas’s ability to govern, and showing that it is serious not just about achieving battlefield successes, but about ending Hamas rule in Gaza. Alas, many in the West still cling to the idea, propagated in the press for decades, that Hamas and similar groups have military and political “wings” that are entirely separate. Khaled Abu Toameh comments:

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March 27, 2025

  1. The Gaza Protests and the “Pro-Palestinian” Westerners Who Ignore Them

    Hamas’s willing propagandists.

  2. Hamas Must Be Destroyed Politically and Militarily

    The organization’s “wings” can’t survive without one another.

  3. Nobody Loves Iran’s Islamic Revolution

    But nuclear weapons could still save it.

  4. Covenantal Politics, Not Assimilation, Are the Antidote to Identity Obsessions

    Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.

  5. The Timeless Jewish Tunes That Turn Out to Be Quite Recent

    Israel and Samuel Goldfarb composed Shalom Aleikhem in 1918.