I have spent the past few weeks talking to humanitarians in Gaza, anti-Hamas activists, human rights organizers, feminists, widows, divorced women, desperate civilians, people in tents, civilians barely getting by, youngsters, and a diverse cross-section of Gaza’s professional class. They all shared the hardships they have been experiencing as a result of the past two years of a devastating Israeli war that has decimated the coastal enclave and made it virtually unlivable for those picking up the pieces after the ceasefire. I have asked almost every single one of them: Why are we not seeing a mass anti-Hamas movement, and why are we not seeing large-scale uprisings against the terror group? Every single one has referenced the horror that Hamas carries out against those who have enough of a platform and dare speak out. Specifically, and disturbingly, they have each referenced the use of Gaza’s hospitals by Hamas as interrogation centers, and how the terror group threatens its opponents with “rods in their legs” if they dare open their mouths. They have described how Hamas has been breaking the legs of opponents, attacking tent occupants, kidnapping men, beating their mothers and sisters, and taking them to one of the three main hospitals: al-Shifa in Gaza City, Al Aqsa in Deir al-Balah, or Nasser in Khan Younis. Despite widespread public knowledge of what happens, none of the international humanitarian or “human rights” organizations have said anything about the horrendous human rights atrocities being committed by Hamas against the Palestinian people of Gaza. This is how many such organizations have become a joke, making a mockery of their so-called “activism.” The crimes being perpetrated against Palestinians are only relevant to these organizations when Israel is the culprit, and hardly ever if Hamas, the Islamist, fascist, terror organization, is involved. Some of the same organizations who regularly decry abuses by Islamist movements and anti-Western extremists in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, or elsewhere, and the same who scream about gender-apartheid, freedom of expression, and the need to push back against dictatorial and absolutist regimes, are cowardly, and willingly, remaining silent, when it comes to the violence and atrocities of Hamas in the Strip. This is why “human rights” activism needs a serious makeover; this is why Hamas needs to be treated and considered as a human rights issue, and not only when seen through the lens of the very legitimate human rights abuses by Israel. Instead, everything has become this kind of blind obsession with calling out Israel, without understanding the evils that this Muslim Brotherhood-backed, Iranian Islamic Regime-financed terror entity is the ultimate enemy of the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond. Shame on all of these fraudsters who are unable to hold multiple truths and who are asleep at the wheel now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza.

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and a whole host of so-called "human rights organizations" have said absolutely nothing about Hamas, a terrorist Islamist deadly entity, executing, torturing, & killing the Palestinian people of Gaza since the ceasefire. Absolute frauds!

10/7 was one of the most shameful days in the history of the Palestinian people; having Gaza and my beautiful people associated with the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust is a painful & awful tragedy that I & many Palestinians want nothing to do with ever. I wish more "pro-Palestine activists" would recognize and respect this and accept it as an actual fact and legitimate truth.

What caused Hamas to agree to give up its chief bargaining chip, the Israeli hostages, for phase 1 of the deal was the unprecedented pressure against the terror group from Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt. The Turks want sanctions relief, the F-35 stealth fighter, new F-16s, and greater cooperation with the US. The Qataris got the apology from Israel for the failed airstrike and the US commitment to Doha’s national security through a new agreement/pact, and in exchange, had to deliver the hostages, which means delivering Hamas. Egypt has been terrified of the specter of forced displacement of Gazans into Sinai, and its mobilization of the Egyptian army on the country’s eastern border raised tensions with Israel and threatened the peace treaty between the two countries, not to mention US foreign aid. Cumulatively, this meant that the three countries (Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt) applied enormous pressure on Hamas, which is isolated, militarily weakened, its allies defeated, and without options.