“You can't beat an idea" is a gross self-deception
After weeks of debate, Israel’s cabinet firmly shut the door on further negotiations with Hamas that would lead to a partial hostage release and voted to send the IDF into Gaza City, Hamas’s largest remaining stronghold. If Israel had paid attention to what its most stubborn enemies were saying about negotiations, it would have made the same decision, earlier and more decisively.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a US nonprofit that closely monitors Arabic-language media, reported last week on a particularly vile commentator — Abdullah Al-Amadi — whose résumé includes roles as a former media advisor to the Qatari government and “honorable mention” on the “Our Experts” page of Al Jazeera’s website. MEMRI notes that Al-Amadi is notorious for his extremist views and often uses his column and his X account to spread anti-Semitic content and incitement to terror against Israel and Jews.
Last month, Al-Amadi encouraged his readers not to be disheartened by scenes of death and destruction in Gaza. As one who considers the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, to be a momentous historic achievement in bringing an end to the “Zionist era,” he wrote that Muslim “rights cannot be restored through fruitless negotiations, hollow conferences, and empty promises.” Instead, they require “victims, blood, and martyrs.”
Al-Amadi is influential and his writing is widely circulated in jihadist circles. If the enemy believes negotiations are fruitless, why go down that path?
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