HAMAS LEADERS ARE BILLIONAIRES WHO OPPRESS ORDINARY PALESTINIANS
by John Spritzler
February 2, 2024
The URL of this article for sharing it is https://www.pdrboston.org/hamas-leaders-are-billionaires
Also read: "The Palestine Authority: Corrupt"
Also read: "WHAT ORDINARY PALESTINIANS WANT"
Please watch the videos and read the articles linked to below to learn the truth about Hamas; it is led by billionaires; it oppresses ordinary Palestinians in Gaza; and (as I show, and explain why, here) Israel for decades has funded Hamas and works to keep it in power.
1. "Hamas’s top leaders are worth billions. Here’s how they continue to grow rich"
4. "Hamas Leaders Worth Staggering $11B Revel in Luxury — while Gaza’s People Suffer"
6. Video: "Elderly Gazan woman accuses Hamas of stealing aid in rare criticism"
7. Many videos: "Palestinians expose life under Hamas"
8. "Palestinians vent against Hamas in rare online event"
9. Video: "Hypocrisy of Hamas: 'Gazans Can't Leave' But Leaders are Abroad"
10. "Electricity protests in Gaza: Hamas suppresses the working class"
11. Video: "Hamas leaders worth staggering $11B revel in luxury — while Gaza’s people suffer"
Rare survey details how Gazans wary of Hamas before Israel attack
Princeton (United States) (AFP) – Many Gazans were hostile to Hamas ahead of the group's brutal October 7 attack on Israel, with some describing its rule as a second occupation, according to rare polling data analyzed by a US-Palestinian researcher.
Read the full article containing the following excerpt here.
"Hamas’s corruption and violence are linked in other ways as well. For one thing, when Israel limits the movement of goods and fuel into Gaza, as it does following violent conflict, Hamas’s illegal tunnel economy gains a monopoly on the market. For another, Hamas extracts bribes for things like the provision of medical aid and for travel permits to Egypt, and demand for these things—and, thus, the bribes that can be extracted—surge during times of violent conflict. Conflict with Israel is devastating for ordinary Palestinians in Gaza, but for corrupt Hamas officials, it can be quite lucrative.
"In sum, while many people attribute Hamas’s continued violent attacks on Israel to Hamas’s ideology—a reflection of the group’s irrational dogmatic zeal in support of Palestinian national resistance—in fact Hamas’s violence is better understood as opportunistic, pragmatic, and inseparable from its corruption. During its fifteen-year rule, Hamas’s attacks have allowed it to skirt accountability for its corruption. And this in turn suggests that, if the violence is to end, something must be done to address the rampant corruption that condemns so many Palestinians, in both the West Bank and Gaza, to poverty and hopelessness."
WHY DID PALESTINIANS VOTE FOR HAMAS IN GAZA?
There are two reasons many Palestinians voted for Hamas in Gaza's elections.
First, Hamas has two branches, a social work branch and a military branch. The social work branch operates various social services for Palestinians, "from the supply of housing, food and water for the needy to more general functions like financial aid, medical assistance, educational development and religious instruction." Many Palestinians voted for Hamas to keep these social services going.
Second, the only election competitor to Hamas is the Fatah Party affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is widely known to be notoriously corrupt and in cahoots with the Israeli government as the party in charge of the Palestine Authority, as discussed here. Many Palestinians voted for Hamas because the alternative was far more corrupt and far more obviously in cahoots with the Israeli government.
SO MANY LIES!
Our rulers lie to us about the conflict in Israel/Palestine to make us believe that the conflict is between “Israeli Jews versus Palestinians” or “Israel versus Hamas.” The truth is that the conflict is between, on the one hand, ordinary Israeli Jews and ordinary Palestinians, versus, on the other hand, billionaire Israelis and billionaire Palestinians and the politicians and military leaders beholden to them. Read about this in “Israel’s Government Attacks Ordinary Jews As Well As Palestinians.”
Our rulers lie to us in order to keep the have-nots pitted against each other for divide-and-rule. Read here how YOU can help build the egalitarian revolutionary movement to remove the rich from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor.