1. “Gaza was an open-air prison.”
Gaza was almost entirely self-governed after Israel’s 2005 withdrawal and Hamas’s 2007 coup. Border constraints existed because Hamas was constantly attacking Israel, and Egypt also sealed its own crossing to prevent Islamist infiltration. Gaza’s economy was improving before Hamas redirected resources into rockets, tunnels, and arms smuggling instead of civilian growth.
2. “Hamas initiated 10/7.”
No. The October 7 massacre was part of a broader war initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hamas was just one of Tehran’s proxies—alongside Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other Islamist factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood—acting in coordination within Iran’s regional “Axis of Resistance.”
3. “The war was about Palestine.”
It wasn’t. The 10/7 war served Iran’s regional ambitions, not Palestinian self-determination. The Palestinian Authority played no role, and most of the combatants—Hezbollah, the Houthis, Islamic Jihad—aren’t Palestinian. This was a trans-national jihad orchestrated by Iran, cynically draped in the Palestinian cause.
4. “The world began with empathy for Israel after the massacre, but Israel lost it after the aggressive attacks on Gaza.”
No. The surge of anti-Israel and openly anti-Jewish sentiment erupted by the end of October 7 itself. This sudden inversion of sympathy fits a well-known psychological pattern of politically violent humiliation: when a hated group’s enemies suffer spectacularly, many observers instinctively reframe the victims as villains to preserve their worldview.
5. “Israel funded Hamas.”
Hamas was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1987. The roughly $30 million per month that sustained Gaza came from Qatar, transferred with Israel’s limited approval to avert humanitarian collapse. That was bureaucratic shortsightedness, not sponsorship—turning incompetence into conspiracy is dishonest.
6. “Hamas are freedom fighters.”
No. Hamas is effectively ISIS under another flag. It seized power by murdering rivals and has ruled Gaza through terror for more than a generation. Its charter calls for Israel’s annihilation. Instead of building infrastructure, it built an underground war network; instead of protecting civilians, it used them as pawns and shields. And if Hamas were fighting for freedom, why are all its allies—Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis—tyrannies that crush their own people?
7. “Israel was doing genocide.”
There was never even a hint of genocide. Genocide requires intent to destroy a people; Israel’s intent was to dismantle a terror army that had just committed mass slaughter. The IDF undertook extraordinary measures to spare civilians—warnings, evacuations, corridor announcements—while Hamas worked to maximize civilian deaths for propaganda value.
8. “But Israel killed more Gazans than the number of Israelis who were killed on 10/7.”
Moral accounting isn’t arithmetic. The real measure is future lives saved. Leaving Hamas in power guarantees endless war and continued repression of Gazans themselves; removing Hamas, though tragically costly now, prevents far greater bloodshed later.
9. “But it was genocide—the experts said so.”
The first accusations of “genocide” appeared within a week of 10/7, before Israel’s ground campaign even began. These were political slogans detached from the legal definition, which requires proven intent to exterminate a population—something no evidence supports.
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10. “Israel bombs indiscriminately.”
The IDF employs the most data-driven targeting process in modern warfare, with roughly 90 percent precision-guided munitions. Civilian casualties largely occur because Hamas embeds launchers, tunnels, and command centers under homes, schools, and hospitals. By contrast, Hamas fires unguided rockets that often fall short inside Gaza.
11. “Israel starved Gaza.”
Israel’s temporary restriction of supplies came after Hamas seized fuel and humanitarian aid for its fighters. Every reopened crossing was exploited for rearmament. Egypt—not Israel—controls the Rafah crossing and likewise limited shipments for its own security.
12. “10/7 never happened / was exaggerated.”
The atrocities are verified by GoPro and CCTV footage, satellite imagery, intercepted communications, and forensic evidence from 1,200 bodies. Denying or downplaying 10/7 serves the same psychological function as Holocaust denial: it protects an ideological narrative from unbearable facts.
13. “Israel’s goal is to ethnically cleanse Gaza.”
Israel’s goal was to remove Hamas and prepare the ground for post-war Arab or international governance. If ethnic cleansing were the aim, Gaza would already be flattened—it isn’t. In reality, it is Hamas that vows the ethnic cleansing of Jews “from the river to the sea.”