How Hamas Wins: The War for Your Sympathy

How Public Opinion, Not Military Victory, Shapes the Real Battle in Gaza

For anyone who still doesn’t get it: the real war between Israel and Hamas is the war on public opinion. The military conflict in Gaza? Hamas intended to lose. Yes. October 7th wasn’t an act of Palestinian rebellion or desperation—it was a carefully orchestrated trap—a massacre of Israelis designed to lure the IDF into Gaza, knowing full well the consequences, while taking hostages as their insurance policy. Hamas relied on their global propaganda machine and the gutless cowardice of Western leaders to manipulate the narrative. The goal? Convince the world that Palestinians are victims of a “genocide,” and Hamas—their noble saviors. Why? Because how the world perceives Hamas (and the Palestinians) is what matters most to them.

Do you see them for what they truly are—genocidal, Islamofascist serial killers backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, Qatar, Turkey, North Korea—or do you buy into the lie that they are freedom fighters battling oppression, colonialism, apartheid and now genocide, who are simply seeking statehood? This is what it’s all about. If Hamas can transform the consequences of their barbaric acts of savagery into a humanitarian crisis and successfully frame themselves as victims, they can leverage global sympathy to secure your financial and moral support—without you even knowing what you are supporting. This is a war of attrition, designed to slowly erode Israel’s legitimacy, war after war, building a narrative of Palestinian victimhood that ultimately seeks the complete dehumanization of the Jewish collective (“Zionists”) and the destruction of Israel. And they need your support. October 7th was just a rehearsal.

To those who think Hamas has already lost by virtue of the highly publicized destruction in Gaza, you’re wrong. The truth is, Hamas doesn’t care about the people dying in Gaza. They are expendable pawns in a death cult designed to elicit Western sympathy, generate billions in donations and perpetuate the myth of Palestinian oppression. The thousands of destroyed buildings mean absolutely nothing to them except for serving as powerful photo opportunities to score PR points. Hamas knows that the entirety of Gaza will be rebuilt by the international community at no cost to them anyway. The nearly 20,000 Hamas terrorists eliminated in this war so far mean nothing to Hamas either. They can easily be replaced, especially with the abundance of funds to “Save Gaza,” a network of scam charities that fund the Hamas criminal enterprise. Every dollar and euro donated only fuels their cause and their ability to continue their ideological war against Jewish sovereignty.

So far, they have gained far more than they’ve lost, because their definition of victory is not rooted in military success. In fact, if they merely survive this war and retain control of Gaza, they have won. This is by design. It was always about the erosion of Israel’s moral standing and global support because they understand that this is the only battle they can truly win. By causing mass casualties among their own people, they generate international outrage, which is then weaponized to delegitimize Israel and line the pockets of their billionaire warlords. It’s a strategy designed not to defeat Israel on the battlefield but to erode its ability to defend itself, to isolate it politically, and to turn global opinion against it. As long as Hamas can maintain this narrative, they don’t need to win a conventional war. Not yet. They only need to make Israel’s position untenable on the world stage. In that sense, the more people they sacrifice, the more they succeed. This is why they do not actually want to reach a ceasefire and are thus unwilling to release all of the hostages they brutally kidnapped—because this war has proven to be far more beneficial to them than costly, thanks to the weakness of Western leaders and the complicity of international institutions that reward terrorism by relentlessly pressuring Israel instead of Hamas (and their backers) to release the hostages and surrender.

The way the good people win here isn’t just in dismantling Hamas militarily, which is not only possible but imperative; it’s also about exposing Hamas for what they truly represent (something that so many are still reluctant to accept): the embodiment of the Palestinian national ideology that is built on the outright destruction of Israel, at any cost. As long as this murderous ideology persists in Palestinian society—no matter how many lives are lost, no matter how many false narratives are spun, no matter how many ceasefire deals are reached—there will never, never be peace. The only thing that can end this century-long war is the utter collapse of the ideology that fuels it. Death to the genocidal ideology of “Free Palestine.”