It’s always good to listen to people in their own language‚ in their own words. Memri.org‚ the website of MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) provides that ability for those of us not fluent in Arabic or Parsi‚ the languages that the purveyors of terror in the Middle East mostly employ. When they speak in English‚ they modify their content to keep in place the illusion of moderation‚ although‚ as they believe they are riding a worldwide wave of hatred‚ they feel less need for duplicity today than even a few months ago.  They do not buy that the people who practice terror and profess the desire to exterminate the Jews deserve any support from the country that crushed the Nazis. So looking at MEMRI’s website‚ translated from the Arabic‚ here is what Ali Baraka‚ the Hamas official in charge of “National Relations Abroad‚” had to say on Hezbollah’s Lebanese TV station‚ trying to encourage Hezbollah to join in the attack: Times have changed. We will not return to how we were prior to October 7. Israel is fragile … We can repeat October 7 many times‚ because once you storm‚ they collapse. This is how it works with Israel. They fight you from afar … They did not expect a ground assault‚ because they couldn’t imagine that any Arab would dare to attack them. They were bullheaded because of how they defeated the Arab armies. But today‚ things have changed. Today‚ the Arab fighters storm in. They stormed [the Gaza Envelope] and tomorrow‚ they will storm the Galilee. They will storm in from wherever they can. We can defeat them. The world has changed.    There is no reason not to believe Baraka about Hamas’s aim. They seek a ceasefire to continue the war from a better position. They are not interested in taking steps towards peace‚ save for a peace brought about by the absence of Jews. They need a ceasefire only because their army and their multi-billion-dollar tunnels-of-terror empire are being methodically destroyed. They rely on a West seeking only comfort and appeasement to snatch them from defeat and to award them a resounding victory. Like Arafat from Beirut‚ they seek salvation from the hands of the West they despise‚ but whom they find very useful. (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: The Story of Oct. 7 Is the Same as the Story of Dec. 7) For American consumption‚ Hamas emphasizes not their non-negotiable commitment to wiping out the Jews‚ but their own suffering. With crumbling control‚ they somehow manage to keep precise tabs on casualties‚ who seem to be all civilians‚ and almost entirely women and children. Their fellow-travelers in the American mainstream media do their best to transmit the Hamas message‚ that is‚ the English-language version of it. How cruel it is to keep fighting the murderers that have made an entire civilian population its human shield. How immoral it is to let the ones who have never felt bound by any law enforce observance of law on those they slaughtered and raped.  The Administration would like to run with this Hamas line and believe enough Americans will accept it if they airbrush it just right while simultaneously turning up the slander of Netanyahu. Curious to see how thorough the whitewashing of Hamas has become. I did a Google search for Ali Baraka‚ to see how much the legacy media covered his damning statements. MEMRI was listed‚ and so was the Jerusalem Post. But on that the entire long first page of Google hits‚ only NBC popped up‚ way at the bottom — but its quote from Baraka was only his denial that Iran had anything to do with October 7. Nothing to spoil the airbrushed image that the government is pushing through its media allies. This is not new. The New York Times of the ’30s and ’40s pooh-poohed Stalin’s starvation of Ukraine as merest fantasy and buried the emerging reports of the Nazi’s organized extermination of European Jewry ten pages deep. Others followed suit.  The story doesn’t suit them today either. The line from the Bidenaughts and Obamaniks who are fashioning our foreign policy and are crafting the Democrat platform is that Hamas is not all that dangerous‚ and it can be contained if only we give it and its allies more power. Let’s say — an independent state. And free all the murderers convicted in open court of executions of Israeli civilians. And‚ of course‚ freeing all those captured in the October 7 orgy of sexualized terror. That will surely result in peace‚ won’t it? Who could object to that? Years ago‚ when the bumbling Brits thought they could toss a few little countries to Hitler and buy themselves peace‚ Churchill indicted the leaders of his own party in the House of Commons with brutal honesty: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor‚ and you will have war.” That stung back then. But today‚ one can sense the sneers among the powerful in the government and the media. Honor? An oppressive construct‚ a racist concept (of course‚ where Orwell had noted in the ’40s that the term “fascist” was now used to indicate merely something you don’t like‚ we note the same today for “racist”). Comfort and power‚ as long as they can last‚ and as long as the consequences of our policies can be safely outsourced to someone else. This last is key. Open wide the borders‚ because those in power suffer last from the consequences that those poor rubes in Texas and assorted backwaters are drowning in. Stop all pipelines‚ sabotage the thriving development of natural gas‚ and undercut the petroleum industry‚ because they can afford the higher prices or the Teslas they buy with subsidies from the American taxpayers. Turn the FBI and national intelligence into active political players‚ because its only the other side of who is being hurt. (READ MORE: Complicit Media Wants Israel to Spare the Children) And if we can get reelected by pointing to a “peace” no matter how phony and transient‚ well‚ hey‚ it’s only Israel who will suffer‚ its deterrence shattered‚ its enemies encouraged. It’s a very old story for Jews in Israel. When Britain found that there was a growing and violent resistance to an independent Jewish presence in Israel‚ their first reaction was to put limits on the rights of Jews to immigrate and to buy land. The idea was that concessions are the best way to peace. The original Palestine Mandate which was to be the Jewish National Home under the San Remo Treaty after World War I‚ was to include all of Jordan as well as all the land between the river and the sea‚ as long as the civil rights of non-Jews would be respected. To buy peace‚ about 75 percent of the territory was lopped off and Jews were forbidden by law to buy land there and settle.  Peace resulted? Not so much. The cry in the Arab street was “The government is with us‚” and riots increased until Jewish communities were subject to mass murder‚ rape‚ and expulsion as in Hebron in 1929. Hamas knows it has some support in America. It has good reason to believe that if it plays its cards right‚ the Administration will start to portray Israel as intransigent‚ will interfere in Israel’s politics to oust Netanyahu‚ and will accept anything that can be passed off however temporarily as a solution — because they won’t suffer the consequences of their sabotage. So they think. And so they and their media hide the truth that Ali Baraka let loose.  But there are too many Americans who have been left holding the bags of consequences for them not to see and not to know what is happening right now. (READ MORE: First‚ De-Nazify Gaza) Those Americans still stand for things like honor‚ freedom from extermination‚ love of peace‚ protection of basic civil rights‚ and the need for security. They know exactly what is going on or will recognize it when shown. They are tired of being fooled. They are not going to be fooled. They do not buy that the people who practice terror and profess the desire to exterminate the Jews deserve any support from the country that crushed the Nazis and ended their Holocaust.  They will not tolerate any party that will give a pass to Hitler’s spiritual heirs.    The post The American People Know the Real Hamas appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.