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When Terror Wears a Different Flag

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In the beginning of the October 7th war, those who stood with Israel used the hashtag #HamasIsISIS,  not as a slogan, but as a statement of reality. We saw it with our own eyes: the brutality, the cruelty, the complete absence of humanity. Hamas’ actions on that dark day went beyond war crimes,  they were acts of terror, barbarism, and ideological hatred, no different from the atrocities committed by ISIS or Al-Qaeda.

Fast-forward to October 2025. After years of agony, Israel finally brought home the few remaining living hostages. A historic deal, brokered by President Donald J. Trump, offered a fragile moment of relief. But it was not peace. The bodies of the deceased hostages still remain in Gaza, Hamas refuses to return them. Even now, in the supposed aftermath, they continue to slaughter their own people, proving once again that their existence thrives only through destruction, never through peace.

The world calls this a “humanitarian crisis.” But let’s be honest,  this is a self-inflicted massacre by a terror regime that values martyrdom more than life. Gaza is bleeding because Hamas made it bleed.

And yet, what is more shocking than their crimes is the reaction or rather, the silence of the world.

When ISIS overran Mosul, enslaved Yazidi women, and massacred Shia cadets in the Camp Speicher massacre, the world united in outrage. When Al-Qaeda attacked........

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