9.39 When Gazans No Longer Fear to Speak Their Minds

The propaganda we are told by much of the media about Gaza is that the terrible merciless occupying Israelis have killed over 40,000 people, most of whom are women and children.   We are told that Israel is starving the people of Gaza and is committing genocide.  Genocide means the intentional massacre of an entire population.  Amnesty International a human rights group accused Israel of genocide.  The Israelis say they are not committing genocide.  How can we determine who is telling the truth and who isn't?  One way would be if we could ask the people of Gaza who are not members of Hamas and who are not afraid to speak the truth even if it doesn't match Hamas propaganda against Israel.  Finding people like that in the past would have been very difficult if not impossible because speaking the truth could get you killed in Gaza.  However there are people who will speak the truth now because Hamas is weaker and because of their anger against Hamas.  A reporter from Israel's channel 12 entered Gaza 13 months after the massacre of Israelis on October 7 and found some of these people.  It turns out they weren't that hard to find.

Here is what they had to say.

Notice how the majority of people interviewed see the Israelis as good and Hamas as bad.  Notice how they say Israel provides food and water and Hamas steals the food and sells it.  Is Israel behaving like a country intent on committing genocide or is Hamas behaving like a terrorist organization (which it is) intent on committing genocide of both Israelis and Arabs?  It is in Hamas's interest that their fellow Arabs suffer because the world blames Arab suffering on Israel.  If Arabs are hungry the world blames Israel for intentionally starving the Palestinians.  It is in the interest of Hamas that the conflict continue because the longer it does and the more Arabs die the more the world turns against Israel.  The added bonus is more Israelis die as well and Muslims and non-Muslims the world over will become more and more enraged at Jews and Israel. 

Here we can see more Gazan's protesting Hamas.

Hamas responded by killing protestors.  They killed Uday one of the protest leaders.  There is a clip about how brutal they were to him on youtube.

Yahya Sinwar was the leader of Hamas in the Gaza strip.  In one letter that he sent to Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh on April 11, 2024, he wrote that the Palestinian death toll would “infuse life into the veins of this nation, prompting it to rise to its glory and honor.” In another message to Hamas leaders in Qatar, Sinwar maintained that thousands of civilian casualties “are necessary sacrifices.” According to the Wall Street Journal the messages also suggest that Sinwar was banking on the idea that further fighting would “work to his advantage”. Regarding the ongoing ceasefire talks — during which Hamas has repeatedly refused to compromise on its maximalist demands — Sinwar recently told Hamas negotiators that “we have the Israelis right where we want them.”

“It was proven on October 7 that Hamas does not have the interests of the Palestinian people as its northern star,” said Wasim, a writer and translator in his late thirties from Gaza who is now in South Africa. “They are dragging us towards more death and destruction.

Hitcham, is a Gazan who worked in construction.  His father was killed during the war and his house was destroyed in an IDF airstrike after Hamas used it to fire rockets at Israel.   Hitcham said that on October 7:

They made a huge mistake. They did not calculate the consequences. Food was distributed to their members while civilians were starving; I saw this with my own eyes. They built tunnels to save their members while civilians were left above the ground to face death...After all this, Hamas is not willing to apologise for what they did. One of their leaders, Osama Hamdan, said in an interview that the civilian casualties in Gaza were nothing, and simply a tiny price for liberation. Hamas does not show any respect to the lives which vanished and the homes which were destroyed.”

On September 22 2025 Ghassan Al-Dahineh, deputy head of the Abu Shabab militant group, did something no Gazan would have dared to do before Israel weakened Hamas.  He posted a Facebook message in Arabic offering holiday greetings to Israelis and the Jewish Diaspora.

“On the occasion of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana), I extend my sincere best wishes to our Arab Jewish brethren in particular,” Al-Dahineh wrote, apparently referring to Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews whose families lived in Islamic countries across the Middle East and North Africa for centuries.

He continued by wishing a happy new year “to the Jewish people in general and to all those celebrating this holiday around the world.”

The militant leader added that “we ask God that this new year be a year of peace, love, health, and prosperity for all, and that it be the beginning of goodness and renewed hope in the hearts of people wherever they may be.”

The above video shows that there are anti-Hamas Gazans.  Every Gazan who protested above put themselves at risk of being attacked by Hamas but they protested anyway. 

A man from Gaza filmed protestors against Hamas in May 2025.  Four Hamas terrorists forced him into a white jeep and drove him to a prison compound where he was tortured.  He told the New York Post that  “[They] accused me of inciting systematic campaigns against Hamas” in addition to receiving aid from Mossad and collaborating with Egypt, Jordan and the rival Palestinian Authority. ok. He constantly feared being shot in the feet or legs, a common practice in Hamas’s torture playbook. “This is what they do with those who oppose them — shoot them on feet and legs to paralyze them forever,” said the man, who was only released after militants failed to get a confession out of him. “I came out broken, hopeless, scared, and hungry. Even now, I still feel fear.” He said “If Hamas returns to power, it will certainly launch another attack on Israel — a new October 7 — just as Netanyahu predicted.”  He reminisces about the life he had before 2005, when Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza. His father, then a “wealthy merchant” with clothing manufacturing factories, regularly conducted business with Israel. But two years after Israel’s complete withdrawal, instead of a flourishing independent Palestine, Hamas rose to power and created an oppressive state. His father was strangled financially.   He said that "“We want Israel to occupy Gaza"  and "I’m not going to stop protesting — Hamas cannot oppress us anymore.  All I want is to escape the prison of Gaza and tell the world the truth about Hamas.”

One of the Gazans interviewed by channel 12 said "You know the whole world is against Israel, The world says Israel destroyed Gaza.  No, you’re the humane ones, not them.  You bring in food and they steal it.  They sell it." 

Children in Gaza speak in the following video.  They blame Hamas not Israel.

Israel and the United States came up with a plan to distribute aid without Hamas getting control of it.  As a result Trump has become popular among at least some Arabs in Gaza as has America which you can see in the video below.

Unfortunately there are still a lot of people in Gaza who support Hamas.  Moshe Phillips wrote:

In March 2024, a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), which is based in Ramallah, found that 71% of Gazans said Hamas was “correct” to launch the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, which included mass killings and kidnappings of Israeli civilians. This view is still above 50% as of now (May 2025). Moreover, 64% of Gazans opposed the disarmament of Hamas ( United With Israel May 2025). This shows not only support for Hamas’s past actions but also a commitment to continued Hamas terrorism... The international community must recognize that Gazans are not victims of Hamas; they are full participants in shaping their society’s situation. They elected Hamas, and they support Hamas. It is time to stop getting Gazans wrong.

There are still pro-Hamas Gazans.  I've seen videos of them spewing their hatred of Israel.  After President Trump announced an impending ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas a group of Gazans chanted Khaybar Khaybar el Yahud.  You can see them doing that in the video below.

Why doesn't the world appreciate Israel?  One reason is anti-semitism.  Jews are portrayed as evil in Islamic texts and along with the Islamic rule that Muslims should take back whatever countries they conquered in the past, turns Muslims against Israel.  Muslim countries control the oil that much of the world needs.  European countries don't want to antagonize the Arab world and risk their oil being cut off the way it was during the Arab oil embargo of 1973.  Europeans have allowed massive numbers of Muslims from the Middle East to enter their countries and now are afraid of them.  One result of this is the countries of the United Nations constantly pass resolutions condemning Israel.  The video below discusses that.

 Amnesty International became antisemitic many years ago and has a history of unfairly condemning Israel that you can read about here, here and here.  When organizations such as Amnesty International and the United Nations condemn Israel, even though Hamas keeps attacking Israel and keeps holding Israeli hostages, that encourages Hamas to continue attacking Israelis and to continue holding Israeli hostages. 

There is a lot of propaganda that says that the Jews have colonized and oppressed the Palestinian people, that they are committing genocide against the Palestinians and that the Hamas massacre of Israelis was a justified revolt of freedom fighters against their oppressors. Many people in the West have been duped to believe that even though as we can see in the above videos many people in Gaza don't share that view.  An examination of history on this web site shows that this is an inversion of reality, it was the Arabs who colonized Israel and have been oppressing the Jews ever since.  There is a web page on this site in which the propaganda about genocide is refuted.

Israel is fighting for its survival on many fronts.  In addition to fighting Hamas in Gaza, Israel is fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon.  What do the people of Lebanon think?  Life under a terrorist government is hell.  Many people in Lebanon are probably secretly happy that the Israelis are weakening Hezbollah.  Hezbollah is not officially the government of Lebanon but they are more powerful than the Lebanese army.  I saw the following evidence that there are Lebanese who don't like Hezbollah on my Facebook page.

Additional Links:

WATCH: Anti-Hamas protests erupt in Gaza amid renewed IDF offensive

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