The Demonic Nature Of Hamas And The Delusion Of The West

December 10, 2025

By Robert Gottselig

Reprinted from Harbinger’s Daily

No one should be shocked that Hamas is refusing to disarm. And yet, many in the West are surprised, obliviously believing that the terrorist group would honor Trump’s peace plan. These leaders have failed to see these terrorists for who they really are: a demonic death cult.

In a recent video, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declared that the fight against Israel is far from over. Mashal reaffirmed the group’s refusal to disarm, urging Palestinians in Gaza to join Hamas in confronting Israel and driving the Jewish State off the international stage.

“The end of the war was declared two months ago, but the battle is not over,” the Hamas leader declared. “The worst form of the genocidal war has indeed stopped, but the starvation, the siege, the closed border crossings, the prevention of aid, the punishment of the people, and the daily killing continue. The plots are still underway. The battle is not over yet. The angels have not laid down their weapons yet, and Gaza is still awaiting our stance, our efforts, and our support.”

“The Palestinians will govern themselves and make their own decisions,” he continued. “There will be no guardians, no mandate, and no renewed occupation. Our people need protection, not guardians. Our people are awaiting independence, not being under a mandate. Protecting the enterprise of the resistance and its weapons—this is our people’s right to self-defense. The resistance and its weapons are the honor and glory of the Islamic nation.”

“What country in the world protects its independence, borders, and interests without force?” Mashal insisted. “(Allah says in the Quran) ‘and prepare for them whatever force you can.’ Peace is only made by the mighty, and only through force. You will not restore your rights through the Security Council, but through the recruitment office. Two thousand verbal bombs do not match a single metal bomb.”

“The Al-Aqsa flood [October 7th, 2023], with its might, has prepared the international arena,” he asserted. “Today, we can—or rather, we must—treat this [Israeli] entity as a pariah that bears responsibility for the genocidal war against our people in Gaza, in Palestine, and in the region in general. Human conscience is ready for this. This is our opportunity to build on this in order to expel this [Israeli] entity from our homeland, and from the international stage.”

This master of deception, Khaled Mashal, plays the victim card all too well. In his demented mind, the battle’s not over because to him, it’s all Israel’s fault. They are the ones responsible for all Gaza’s ills, and therefore, the Palestinians need protection, not guardians, as they “await independence.” The Hamas leader concluded by saying that the horrific massacre on October 7th prepared the way to expel Israel from their homeland and the international stage.

Friends, I hope that you can see that this is a spiritual battle and that there are demonic forces working overtime in the sons of disobedience. Satan would love nothing more than to destroy Israel and the Jewish people, somehow thwarting God’s Word and promises. That is the crux of this whole matter—and that is the crux of anti-semitism and the hatred for Israel worldwide. If only the world would read and believe the Bible, it would see this. However, because their Bibles are closed, they remain convinced that they can simply “make a deal.”

What the West is really doing is trying to make a deal with the devil.

Shame on the West for pressuring Israel to make peace with people who wish them dead. It is delusional to believe that a Palestinian State would lead to peace in the Middle East. That is utter nonsense. The Palestinians have already had a state of their own in Gaza, and how has that worked out? Not very well.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminded the West of this at a New York Times Dealbook Summit, stating, “There was a Palestinian state. It’s called Gaza. That’s exactly what it was. It was a de facto state. And we didn’t get peace. What we got was the most horrific massacre of the Jews since the Holocaust. And if you ask Israelis now—and it just covers an enormous spectrum from left to right—we had a vote in the Knesset. We have 120 Knesset members. 10 abstain. 99 to 11 opposed being forced on a Palestinian state. I mean, that tells you something. And so people say, ‘Look, there has to be a solution with the Palestinians,’ but it’s not one in which they don’t recognize the Jewish state. They commit themselves over and over again to do this massacre again. They indoctrinate their children with textbooks that are calling for people—for children—to become suicide bombers, and they pay-for-slay. The more Jews you kill, the more you’re paid. This whole thing is not where it’s going to go. We’ll have to find a path for peace—and I think it begins in Gaza by removing Hamas and offering it a different future.”

The Palestinians had a chance to make Gaza something good, to make Gaza, as former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman put it, “the Singapore of the Middle East.” Instead, they took the billions of dollars they received in international support, and they invested it with one sole purpose: to destroy Israel. Now that they have miserably lost the war, they want to play the victim card and point the finger at Israel instead of blaming themselves for their disgusting hatred and incompetence.

Somehow, the West is still buying into this propaganda. The only thing that makes sense of this lunacy is that it is demonic in origin.

The God of Israel has given us His Word, which not only tells us the source of this hatred, but also that it will intensify until the whole world turns against Israel (Zechariah 12-14). Though that may sound depressing, I want to remind you that there is a day coming when Israel and the Jewish people will no longer be a doormat for the Gentiles to walk over. Instead, the Gentile nations will come in reverence one day to worship the King of the Jews in Jerusalem when Jesus returns at His second coming.

Psalm 48:1-2 reads, “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.”

A day is coming when the whole world will joy over Jerusalem, the city of the great king: the King of the Jews.

Robert Gottselig is the Director of The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Canada, the host of ‘In News Surrounding Israel’and Cruizin’ For Zion, and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.