Opinion: Hamas Is the Most Lethal Form of a Negative Palestinian Pathology

by Barry Shaw

Hamas is the most lethal form of a negative Palestinian pathology. Both are bad.

It has dominated the Palestinian landscape for over twenty years, but it has been ignored by the diplomatic doctors who want to cure a sickness by injecting a healthy patient with a pathogen that makes the condition worse and leads, inevitably, to the death of the patient. In this case, Israel.

By this I mean the imposition of a two-state non solution as a way of purifying the disease that infects the Palestinian mind and soul.

The vaccination has been tried, unsuccessfully for half a century.

After fifty years of failure, one would assume that professional practitioners would scratch their heads, go back to the laboratory, and come up with radically new approaches.

But not the two-state researchers. For them, there is no alternative to their fifty-year attempt to cure the cancer.

For them, it’s not the cancer that is at fault. They cannot accept the scientific evidence that this is the disease that must be surgically removed.

For them, it is the healthy patient’s fault for rejecting the poison being administered into his body, ad nauseum.

Not even the mass deaths of one thousand five hundred patients, the awful injuries of over three thousand more, will detract them from their obsessive pursuit of a cure that kills and maims.

Enough already! Here is some of the scientific evidence of the Palestinian pathological cancer they insist on ignoring.

The Palestinian pathological killer strain began long before it mutated into Hamas.

Haj Amin al Husseini practiced his anti-Semitic chemistry on the Jews of Palestine with mass slaughters and rapes in Jerusalem and Hebron.

After he escaped British punishment, he escaped to Iraq where he spread his virus into the Jews of Baghdad, leading to the deadly Farhud.

Again escaping the British he headed to Berlin and studied the mass extermination of Jews under Hitler and promised to become the virus leading to the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem in Palestine.

Escaping the Allies and the fall of Nazism, he fled to Egypt where he mentored an impressionable young man and willing student who changed his identity to Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian terrorist and the rest is Palestinian history.

As he told Muslim critics in Johannesburg mosque. “This Oslo paper is nothing more than the paper that Mohammed signed with the people of Quraish.” In other words it was a deception to lull the enemy, to fool the Jews, into a false sense of safety and security.

Arafat’s toxicology transformed itself from being deadly Pan-Arabism against Jews into the pan- Palestinianism indoctrination that has fooled the West.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promising to stop killing Jews, but his brand of Palestinianism became even more lethal after he received his Norwegian gift.

Arafat killed more Jews after receiving Western sainthood that he had done before.

Under the spread of his lethal pandemic, he faithfully followed his mentor in taking his rabid Jew hatred global.

Can anyone doubt this is true?

After Arafat withered and died, his mantle was taken up by a corrupt leadership who knew how to suck money out of an indoctrinated West who shared the same poisonous anti-Semitic ideology and used the Palestinians as their club to beat Israel.

The Palestinian pandemic split into different viruses sharing the same metabolic characteristic of being deadly to Jews.

The death cult against the Jews paused in Gaza in 2006 when Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip gifting the Palestinian Arabs an agricultural and tourist paradise. Instead of developing it further they descnded into killing each other in a war of dominance which Hamas won.

Just as Covid developed different strains of its lethal origins, so the Palestinian pathology has taken different forms with Hamas becoming the dominant virus.

The Fatah-PLO Palestinian Authority based in Ramallah, courtesy of Israeli land concessions, chose to take foreign money and use it to incentivize the murder of Jews, even rewarding their deadly enemies, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with their share of the “Pay to Play” “welfare” scheme.

The more Jews you kill the more money you get.

Recent Palestinian research polling and surveys are revealing.

One conducted less than one month before the deadly Hamas outburst erupted on innocent Israelis on 7 October 2023 showed Palestinians polling 58% for Hamas against 37% for the PA.

In a Palestinian poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah about the feelings and political mood of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 1-4 May 2025 discovered that 81% want Mahmoud Abbas to resign.

To the question who Palestinian Arabs would vote for in a matchup between Fatah-PLO Mahmoud Abbas or Hamas leader Khalid Mishal, Mishal stands at 68% against Abbas at 25%.

And, in an eye-opening survey for the Western diplomats heading to the United Nations to vote in recognition of a Palestinian state, this survey should give them pause.

To the question, if new Palestinian Authority legislative elections were held today with the participation of all political forces that participated in the 2006 elections, 43% say they will vote for Hamas, 28% for Fatah, 8% for third parties, and 19% have not yet decided.

Palestinian Arabs today believe that Hamas is the most deserving of representing them and leading the Palestinian people today.

Based on all Palestinian polls, it is beholden on the international enforcers of a healthier Middle East to dispense with their failed experiments and try something new, something original, to kill the virus that infests Palestinian minds and kills Jewish bodies.

One of those possibilities both in Judea and Samaria, and definitely in a future separate Gaza, is the encouragement of a local Arab leadership, as we are seeing I both locations, that is fed-up with the corrupt gang in Ramallah and the death cult in Gaza.

Let them develop their own indepedent cantons under their own self-rule in the Arab towns and villages in Judea and Samaria collaborating with Israel in commerce, development, and security.

In both Judea and Samaria and in Gaza Arab voices are speaking up in favor of this new option which is more preferable to them than past bad experiences living under a corrupt Fatah-PLO and a cruel Hamas in Gaza.

Barry Shaw
International Public Diplomacy Associate at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Author of ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism.’