The terror of Hamas

By: Pedro Corzo - 03/03/2025

Guest columnist.
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Serial killer Ernesto Che Guevara wrote in one of his moments of supposed glory that hatred was an important factor in the fight because it transformed the militant “into an efficient, violent, selective and cold killing machine,” advice that came true once again in the acts of terror carried out by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Guevara's hatred is the handbook of every terrorist. That hatred led Hamas and its allies to the horrendous murder of the Bibas children and their mother Shiri Bibas, a crime that has deeply moved anyone with an elementary sense of justice, a concept that should prevail in every person who fights for their ideals.

The justice of a cause is denatured when hatred consumes it. Guevara is wrong again when he says that a people “without hatred cannot defeat its enemies”, when hatred simply leads to repeating the worst of the enemy that is being fought and even surpassing it, as Hamas is doing with each handover of hostages. A spectacle that denigrates those who are willing to die with weapons in their hands.

Beyond sympathies or rejection of a particular cause, abuses, particularly hate crimes, should be repudiated by any responsible citizen or body. However, this has not been the case. Many personalities and institutions from different parts of the world have remained silent in the face of barbarity in which numerous women and girls were raped, children and adults kidnapped, and more than a thousand people murdered.

The atrocities committed by these fighters reflect what they would be capable of doing if they could subdue the Israeli nation and even those in their own people who dare to question their authority. The insanity of these men knows no bounds and their supporters should take notice.

In a war context, potential militants cannot be expected to have a moral code of conduct, but the simple fact that the leaders of Hamas and all the organisations fighting for the Palestinian cause have remained silent in the face of such cruelty is a sign of the caliber of that leadership.

Hamas and the Palestinian organizations associated with the October 7 massacre were also inspired by the policy of extermination that Adolf Hitler's Nazis implemented against the Jews before and during the Second World War, to the point that, just as the Nazis did, they recorded their cruelties, thus celebrating their crimes.

Political goals are not achieved by kidnapping children, much less by killing them. Political struggles are highly complex when violence is involved, but strangling two children is an absolutely unjustifiable crime. This was denounced by Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israeli army: “We confirm that the Bibas were killed by Hamas terrorists. They did not kill them with weapons, they killed the children with their hands and tried to cover it up.”

The act of kidnapping a human being is horrendous, but against infants, as these terrorists did - little Ariel was 4 years old and his brother Kfir was not yet nine months old when they were taken hostage - it escapes any publishable description.

Fear is much easier to build than a wall, and much more difficult and complicated to tear down. That is why would-be tyrants and those who practice tyranny resort to fear as the essential tool to subdue their enemies. They know that some people can be subdued simply by seeing the terror that others suffer.

Fear is very useful in the government strategy of dictators, they know that when it is a shared feeling, the most atrocious cowardice is justified. In addition, it spreads very quickly, infiltrating people's bloodstreams, first terrifying those who apply it, then the direct victims, until it reaches the rest of society like a pandemic.

Those of us who have suffered the violation of our most basic rights and endured fear know that it is terrible, but we also know that dealing with it gives you an insurmountable peace and confidence. Fear never leaves you, it is a dangerous virus that you are forced to live with, but that does not exempt you from fulfilling your duties.

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