Let’s hope the delusional demonstrators sympathizing with Hamas — in the United States and elsewhere — caught the translation of a recent interview with a senior member of the terror group. His chilling comments deserve far more attention than they’ve received.
“Israel is a country that has no place on our land,” Ghazi Hamad said last month in an interview with Lebanese TV. “We must remove it because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation. We are not ashamed to say this.”
When asked whether this meant the annihilation of Israel, Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, responded unequivocally, “Yes, of course.”
Hamad went on to foreshadow multiple repeats of the Oct. 7 atrocity against Israel, saying there would be “a second, a third, a fourth” terror attack. “Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”
It is against this horrific backdrop that congressional Democrats now increasingly call for Israel to unilaterally lay down its arms and observe a cease-fire. Last week, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, became the latest member of his party to scold the Jewish state for what can be described only as an act of self-preservation in the face of unimaginable barbarism.