In his marie-antoinette let-them-eat-cake moment, one of the senior leaders, of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, who both the Israeli and American government agree has stolen $4 billion from the aid meant for ordinary Gazans, has declared himself well satisfied with the destruction of infrastructure in Gaza during the current war. He’s living in a luxury hotel in Doha, far from the battlefield. Why should he care that the war he helped to start has meant such misery for people in Gaza? More on his sublime indifference to their condition can be found in the interview he just gave to Sky News here: “Hamas’s Mashaal: Gaza is destroyed, but this is part of ‘march toward liberation,’” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, June 27, 2024:
Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal…acknowledges the damage wrought to the territory in the aftermath of the October 7 attack. “Gaza is now destroyed,” he says. “Every fair-minded person sees that this is absolutely true.”
However, he says, this is all part of the “march of our people toward liberation.”
“Gaza is now destroyed,” Mashaal claims. This is not true. Only 17% of the infrastructure in the Strip has been demolished, while a great many other buildings have been severely damaged.
Mashaal doesn’t care about the Gazans whose interests he claims to represent and whose lives his terrorist group, Hamas, has helped to ruin. He’s one of those fanatics who is willing to slaughter real people now for the sake of a dream coming true later —in his case, the total destruction of Israel “from the river to the sea” and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state. Others of a similar bent include the demented Marxist Abimael Guzman, head of the Sendero Lubinoso (Shining Path) in Peru, or the even crazier Pol Pot, who as leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia slaughtered millions of his fellow Cambodians, especially the entire intellectual class who it was believed, would be most resistant to the Khmer Rouge’s program to “equalize” society.
It is Hamas that dragged Israel into a war it did not want, with the atrocities — rapes, tortures, murders, mass kidnappings — Hamas carried out on October 7. The IDF could do no other than respond with a ferocious counterattack after the October 7 atrocities, to make sure that Hamas will never again be a military power capable of repeating those atrocities, despite the Hamas boast that it will repeat them, as soon as it is able,” again and again.”
Now the Gaza campaign is winding down. The Israelis have killed at least half of the Hamas combatants holed up in Gaza, and are in the process of dismantling what remains of all four of the Hamas battalions that were believed to still be intact in that city just a month ago. Meanwhile, the IDF is also dealing with Hamas remnants operating in northern Gaza, attempting but so far failing, to regroup.
Given Khaled Mashaal’s huge theft of Gazan aid money, and his cloudless life in a luxury hotel in Gaxa, one might have expected him to at least express fellow feeling for those Palestinians whose homes have been destroyed or damaged in Gaza,or who have had family members wounded or killed. No such luck. He’s delighted with such destruction. He doesn’t care about those civilian deaths. After all, the misery of the Palestinians in Gaza — for which Hamas alone, with its embedding of both men and weapons in civilian areas and buildings (schools, apartments, mosques) — is responsible, allows Hamas to score propaganda points with its depiction of the “cruel” IDF.
When will the people in Gaza dare to hold mass demonstrations denouncing not just Khaled Mashaal, but his fellow Hamas billionaires Moussa abu Marzouk and Ismael Haniyeh, who, like Mashaal, stole their money — $4 billion by Marzouk, $3 billion by Haniyeh — from the aid sent to support the people of Gaza? When will someone at the UN, or in Congress, or among the Bidenites stand up and demand that every effort must be made to claw back those $11 billion, which will go a long way to help rebuild Gaza?
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Westman says
The Islamic Nation is “obligated” to join the @#$%& jihad flood says Kahled?
Mash-aal, like Talib, doesn’t realize that Palestinians were outcasts of Islam before there was an Israel. No recognized mainstream Islamic nation wants to “rescue” or take in its troublesome people and are quite willing to let the pot boil if they can avoid too great of embarrassment about the reality. How do you save the non-productive belicose from themselves?
There is no Nation Of Islam but the US-born, non-Islam-compliant, upstart by that name. There is no nation of Hezbollah, al-Queda, ISIS, Fatah, Hamas, etc. No actual OIC wants them except another trouble maker – Iran, and that at a distance. Imagine how secure the OIC will be when Iran starts waving its new nuclear bombs plus delivery vehicles about.
The leaders of real Islamic nations have been wiser than the US, so far, about getting into a conflict that only becomes a much larger mess.
Treereen says
“…help rebuild Gaza…”
Why? I’m so sick of this perpetual “rebuilding Gaza” “groundhog day”. It’s time to stop for the bills of “rebuilding Gaza” all being sent to the gullible West, every time. Iran just got $10 billion from President Turnip & his munchkin troupe, and appears to have enough money to burn on drones and missiles. It’s high time to send all those bills to Tehran, Doha and Sana’a.
carpediadem says
Agree. AS for refunds from the UN, nothing like that will happen until people campaign for it.
Sue says
Amen
OLD GUY says
Re-building Gaxa is how these guys get so wealthy.
Mike says
Khaled Mashaal and his fellow Ham-Asses should be forced to pay every last penny, shekel or dinar of their ill-gotten gains back towards reconstructing Gaza, this time Ham-Ass free.
They should also go on trial for crimes against humanity and genocide, and face hanging if convicted. That is, if the Mossad doesn’t kill them first.
Emilie Green says
It’s always worth it.
When someone else pays the price.
“We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima,” asked Stahl, “And, you know, is the price worth it?” “I think that is a very hard choice,” Albright answered, “but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”
FYI says
Khaled mashall’s wealth will be no good
allah is NOT the Biblical God ….who happens to be..the God of Israel
hamas and hizbollah have declared war on the God of Israel
you see it won’t end well for the allahuakbars
wait till you see what God/YHWH has in store..
Zechariah 12
Zechariah 14 v 12 talk about the wrath of God!
This is not because of the Jews..
Who owns ISRAEL?
“MY LAND”
JEREMIAH 2:7
“you don’t own it..it belongs to God”
Leviticus 25:23
it’s not allah of the kaaba’s lands is it?
the islamofascists can’t win:they are too stupid to see
allah didn’t give them minds.
But then allah does suffer from a lack of Omniscience
A Hamas Funeral:” washed,scrubbed,fresh for allah in a white Robe..and all dressed up..but nowhere nice to go”
allah is NOT the Biblical God
They are not going to any paradise
God does not spare the Evil.
All those Billions too..not much good..
PRCS says
Who owns ISRAEL?
“MY LAND”
JEREMIAH 2:7
“you don’t own it..it belongs to God”
Leviticus 25:23
FYI, the belief that your god ‘promised’ already occupied land to ‘His chosen people’ thousands of years ago remains a real world geopolitical problem to this day.
simba says
human nature, to covet or lust for land or items that dont belong to them. the promise remains the enemy of the promises still roams the earth so obviously conflict is inevitable
PRCS says
Yes.
Israel, a fully developed nation has a legitimate place there today. and its citizens are, of course, not going to give that up, must not, and logistically cannot.
Thus, in this case, conflict between nuclear armed adversaries.
Levy says
You guys there in America will keep on paying for those Arabs in Gaza forever. You guys will pay for UNRWA generations after generations forever
Why??
Because the state department said, so every refugee in the world will get help for 10 years just those so-called Palestinians Will get billions of dollars for generations and generations of your money
PRCS says
+1
memi says
Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mashaal and all the Hamas terrorist “leaders” have become billionaires thanks to Turkey and Qatar offering them “enterprises”, unlimited funding through shell “NGO charities” . Billions of “aid” dollars have gone to their pockets and not the starving Gazans!
These corrupt Hamas “leaders” live in safety with their famililies in billionaire style (almost matching Erdogan’s son-in-law-Byraktar- who’se selling stolen oil from Iraq via ISIS and manufacturing & selling thousands of profitable drones to any country needing them! They directed the October 7th genocide “remotely” and are holding the reigns of power without regard to the misfortunes and hunber of their fellow-Gazans.
But to be fair to their humanistic endeavours, they had been spending a billion of the Gazans’ and “aid” monies to build thousand-miles tunnels under Hospitals, schools and Mosques!.
Gazans haven’t had an “election” since 2005 when Hamas butchered the PLO/Fatah/Arafat gang and replaced them with these self-serving anti-Semitic, Christianophobic corrupt “leaders” and they are left on their own to face a war started by genocidal Hamas October 7th. Meantime, the “West” is in deep slumber and if a separate “state” by “Palestinians” is created (an artifical entity of British colonialism post WWII) it would mark the beginning of Islamofascism in all of Africa–Europe is slowly becoming a Sharia law state in any event.
ISIS, AlQaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and its proxy Hamas are all supported, promoted and funded by Turkey and Qatar and Hezbollah (Iran’s proxy) is now threating 2 European states: Cyprus and Greece! Terrorist Nusrallah doesn’t realize that he’s opening p Pandora’s geopolitical box in that explosive region and should try to control his threats as they’re crossng red, and blue and white lines!
The Persian Empire and the Ottoman Empires are long gone kaput and trying to resurrect them will soon bury their Islamofascist heirs and assigns’ dreams of grandeur!
Most of us know they are not “woke” anyway!