Hamas should have been wiped off the face of the earth by now. Instead, it still breathes, still kills, and still holds hostages. Why? Because the world enables it. Because cowardice and political games have taken precedence over justice. Because the so-called “international community” would rather see Israel restrained than see Hamas destroyed.

Hamas is not a political movement. It is a death cult. It massacres civilians, rapes women, kills children, and brags about it. It launches rockets from hospitals, schools, and mosques, knowing full well that the bleeding-heart elites in the West will cry “war crimes” the moment Israel dares to fight back. This is not resistance. This is terrorism, pure and simple.

Why are Israeli hostages still in Gaza? Because Hamas knows that playing with human lives gives it power. The world lets Hamas get away with this obscene game, treating it like a legitimate actor rather than the terrorist mafia that it is. Every hostage negotiation drags on endlessly, designed to humiliate Israel and make Hamas look like a force to be reckoned with.

Hamas does not negotiate in good faith. It tortures, rapes, and brutalizes its captives. It holds them in underground tunnels like animals. It strings out their release to extract maximum concessions. And the world watches, shrugs, and calls for “restraint.”

Restraint? Against monsters who burn babies alive? Israel should not be negotiating with Hamas. It should be erasing it.

Israel’s soldiers have laid down their lives to protect their people, but they have been betrayed — not by their government, but by a world that refuses to let them finish the job. The IDF has fought heroically, navigating the impossible battlefield of Gaza while trying to minimize civilian casualties — something Hamas never even considers. Yet every loss Israel suffers is met with silence, while every Hamas casualty is met with international outrage. The double standard is sickening.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have long warned the world about Hamas. Trump took a hardline stance against radical terror groups, cutting off their funding and isolating their enablers. Netanyahu has been calling for decisive action for years. But instead of listening, the world mocked them. Now, as Hamas continues to slaughter and kidnap, their words ring more true than ever.
Last week, Trump and Netanyahu met in Washington to discuss a solution to the Hamas problem. Netanyahu vowed that Israel would “finish the job,” while Trump proposed a shocking idea: a US takeover of Gaza to rebuild it into a “Middle Eastern Riviera.” The response? The usual hand-wringing and excuses. The world is too spineless to take action, too blinded by its hatred of Israel to see the truth: Hamas will not stop until it is obliterated.

A sickening new narrative has emerged: “Israel lost the war.” Why? Because Hamas still exists. Because it still fires rockets. Because it still holds hostages. This defeatist nonsense is exactly what Hamas thrives on. The media paints a picture of Israel as a struggling, wounded nation, while portraying Hamas as a scrappy underdog. This distortion is not just irresponsible — it’s deadly. It emboldens Hamas, encourages further terror, and pressures Israel to back down.

Israel has not lost. The only way Israel loses is if it stops fighting. And that cannot happen.

Let’s talk about Qatar — the rich, two-faced Gulf state that bankrolls Hamas while pretending to mediate peace. Qatar hosts Hamas leaders in luxury hotels, funds their operations, and provides them with a political shield. And yet, the world still treats Qatar as a “partner.” Enough. Qatar must be sanctioned, isolated, and treated as what it is: the financial lifeline of a terrorist empire.
No more fake diplomacy. No more pretending Qatar is a neutral player. Any nation that funds Hamas is complicit in its crimes.

The only real solution is complete eradication. No ceasefires, no negotiations, no half-measures. Hamas is a cancer, and you do not negotiate with cancer. You cut it out.

Israel must be given full support to finish the war. The world must stop pretending Hamas is a political entity and recognize it for what it truly is: a genocidal terrorist cult that thrives on Western weakness. And those who support Hamas — whether they be nations, media outlets, or activists — must be called out and held accountable.

The suffering of Israeli hostages, the deaths of Israeli soldiers, and the continued existence of Hamas must not become just another tragic chapter in history. The time for words is over. The time for total eradication is now.

Amine Ayoub, a Middle East Forum fellow, is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco.

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Once known as a publication offering beauty, fashion, and lifestyle advice to teenage girls, Teen Vogue has evolved into an outlet that frequently platforms one-sided narratives, featuring writers who have openly expressed their support for terrorism and anti-Israel rhetoric online. 

Esraa Abo Qamar’s piece, “Scholasticide in Gaza Means There Are Almost No Schools or Colleges Left” is just the latest to be published in Teen Vogue’s new anti-Israel mission.

The story of Esraa Abo Qamar — who goes by Esraa Sameer on social media — is undoubtedly emotional and likely resonates deeply with Teen Vogue’s target audience. As a student at the Islamic University of Gaza, Esraa had to halt her studies in October 2023 due to the outbreak of the war. Any student passionate about their education would be heartbroken to learn that a girl the same age would be forced to abandon their studies because of conflict. 

Esraa frames Israel as the perpetrator in this story, leveraging her op-ed to falsely accuse Israel of not only committing genocide, but also “scholasticide,” whereby Israel is framed as deliberately destroying the education system in Gaza. 

The term “scholasticide” was termed by none other than a former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) official,

Karma Nabulsi. Nabulsi worked as an international spokesperson for the PLO from 1977-1990, when the organization was at its height of launching attacks against Israel. Using an emotionally charged and baseless term coined by a former member of a terrorist organization raises serious doubts about its credibility.  

Not once does Esraa mention the real culprit of the destruction of Gaza’s educational system — Hamas. Esraa fails to acknowledge that Hamas has hijacked the education system in Gaza to promote its own extremist agenda that prioritizes the destruction of the State of Israel over providing youth with a meaningful education. 

This education system has clearly worked to indoctrinate Esraa, who gleefully celebrated the Iranian regime’s October 1 missile attacks on her social media, writing “God is the greatest” over a video of missiles and calling it the “best view of my life.” 

Esraa’s Instagram story on the night of the Iranian regime’s missile attack, October 1, 2024.

Apparently, the education of Israeli students is less important, as Esraa omits that one of those missiles hit a school in Gedera.

Of course, the Hamas-run education system in Gaza doesn’t teach accurate history. Otherwise, Esraa would remember that Israel has not ruled Gaza for most of her life. While Esraa writes that Gazans have suffered under “violent military rule and apartheid” since 1948, her emotionally charged perspective on the history of Palestinians overlooks critical historical facts.

Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip from 1948 until 1967, when Israel took over the territory in a defensive war. Esraa further omits that Israel has not governed Gaza since 2005, when Israel disengaged from the territory. Since 2007, Gaza has been under the control of Hamas, which has imposed a brutal and oppressive regime that focuses on terrorizing Israelis and uprooting the Jewish State rather than taking care of its own civilians.   

Part of Hamas’ terrorism strategy comes from embedding themselves in civilian locations. In fact, Hamas has systematically taken advantage of the Islamic University of Gaza since the institution’s founding, using it as an outpost to indoctrinate students with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. On multiple occasions since October 7th, Hamas has used the university to manufacture weapons and launch anti-tank missiles. In other instances, Hamas’ own misfired rockets have hit schools in Gaza. 

The accusations that Israel destroyed Gaza’s water and sanitation sites and “weaponized starvation” similarly fall short when all the facts are presented. Since the start of the war, Israel has coordinated more than 1.3 million tons of aid to be distributed in the Gaza Strip and has worked to increase the supply of clean water throughout the war. 

This is a UNICEF water desalination plant in Khan Yunis, Gaza. @Cogatonline assisted in coordinating its repair, and it now supplies 20,000 cubic meters of water to the people of Gaza every day.

There is no mass dehydration. There is no genocide. They’re all lying to you. pic.twitter.com/DeYxvpa0mn

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) December 19, 2024

However, these facts don’t matter to Esraa, who merely states in passing the reason for the war starting in the first place — Hamas’ vicious terror attacks on October 7, 2023, which stole the lives of more than 1,200 Israelis, many of whom were students and young adults. 

If facts don’t matter to Esraa, then neither do definitions, as she purposefully misrepresents Zionism to be a “religious nationalist ideology,” rather than the desire for the Jewish people to live in their historic national homeland.

Students protesting this in the US aren’t simply “activists” as Esraa claims but are rather denying the Jewish people of a basic right. Moreover, the pioneers of Israel were largely secular Zionists and founded the state on that approach rather than on religious ideals. 

Esraa does get one thing right in her article — war kills dreams. Unfortunately, Hamas has chosen to perpetuate a prolonged conflict against the Jewish people, depriving innocent individuals of their right to education and peace. 

The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.

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Media outlets should know by now that when it comes to hiring Gaza freelancers — caution is advised.

As HonestReporting has repeatedly exposed, the vast majority of foreign media journalists in the Gaza Strip are deeply compromised — some receive annual awards from Hamas and others have personal connections to the terrorists.

One of them is Hassan Eslaiah, whose memorable photo with former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar circulated online after we exposed he had infiltrated into Israel on October 7 and documented atrocities in Israeli kibbutzes.

This was enough for AP and CNN to cut ties with the so-called journalist immediately. But Sky News, it seems, didn’t bother checking his background when it recently hired him to work on a story for the network, as reported last week by Ynet News.

Sky News just “discovered” that one of its Gazan freelancers had Hamas ties. Seriously, @SkyNews?

His name is Hassan Eslaiah—the same guy we exposed over a year ago. AP and CNN already fired him last year.

Next time, try vetting your journalists before hiring them. https://t.co/hjuamQUcUE pic.twitter.com/O4hnlyFHYR

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) February 6, 2025

The network’s explanation was meant to absolve responsibility but instead revealed its low journalistic standards: the hiring was done through a third party, an independent production company.

It would have gone unnoticed had it not been for Eslaiah’s social media activity, where he posted a photo of himself with those he had covered — a United Nations team on a mine-clearing mission.

Everyone in the industry recognized him, diplomats complained, the UN was embarrassed, and Sky News had to apologize and shamefully admit that they had no idea who was working for the network in one of the most sensitive locations in the Middle East.

And it’s not like Eslaiah was unemployed until then: Last month his footage of the appalling handover of Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud was heavily used by local and international media.

Whose footage did @BBCNews & others use from the heart of the appalling crowd scenes when Hamas released Israeli hostage Arbel Yehoud?

Which Gazan photojournalist has that sort of access?

Hint: It’s not the first time he’s cozied up to terrorists to get the shots.

Find out pic.twitter.com/yYBQ6XPeSn

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) January 30, 2025

Many questions arise: How did this happen? Who are the editors-in-charge in Sky News who thought it possible to delegate stories without knowing to whom? Will they be reprimanded? Will the network pay Eslaiah? Is there any other way to cover stories in Gaza without using compromised journalists?

Admittedly, Sky News said it won’t use Eslaiah’s material. But what’s going to happen in a year or two? When a new boss arrives and demands a good story from Gaza that only “journalists” like Eslaiah can have access to?

Media outlets should have a blacklist of those in the region who cannot be considered professional journalists.

If they really care about the truth, they should think twice before hiring freelancers in Gaza, and Google the name of each individual who promises professional coverage from the terror-ruled enclave.

Chances are they will land on an HonestReporting expose proving why such individuals should not be providing services to any respectable foreign media outlet.

The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.

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