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From the Barbarians Within

When truth becomes uncomfortable, silence often follows. But silence is complicity — and Gaza’s people are paying the price.

The Atrocity No One’s Protesting

“Hamas stop the violence against Gaza civilians and disarm without delay.”
— U.S. Central Command, October 15

While “Free Palestine” still echoes through city squares from New York to London, that cry feels hollow this week. Because in Gaza, the supposed liberators have turned their guns inward.

According to Reuters, U.S. military officials directly called on Hamas to halt violence against its own civilians after reports of public executions.
The New York Post later confirmed that Hamas not only carried out the killings but also publicly defended them, vowing not to disarm.

Footage verified by multiple outlets shows masked men forcing blindfolded detainees to their knees before shooting them in the street. Their crime? “Collaboration.” Their real offense? Daring to live beyond Hamas’s control.

So while activists abroad accuse Israel of genocide, Hamas is executing Palestinians by deliberate design.

The Great Inversion of Morality

For years, an easy moral map was drawn:

• Israel = oppressor

• Palestinians = oppressed

• Hamas = resistance

The slogans came fast: Genocide! Occupation! White Supremacy!

But these words collapse under the weight of today’s headlines.

If genocide means targeting civilians for who they are, then who commits it now — the democracy trying to dismantle a terror regime, or the terror regime executing its own?
If occupation means ruling by force without consent, then who occupies Gaza — Israel, which withdrew in 2005, or Hamas, which refuses to disarm?
If white supremacy means believing in one’s moral superiority, what do we call those who kill neighbors to enforce ideological purity?

They accused Israel of genocide while applauding the executioners of Palestinians. There’s no greater irony in moral blindness.

Selective Outrage, Selective Solidarity

It is easier to condemn the faraway villain than the familiar one.
Easier to denounce Israel’s power than face Hamas’s cruelty.
Easier to wear a keffiyeh than to see the blood beneath it.

If justice is selective, it’s not justice — it’s fashion.
And if solidarity collapses when truth becomes inconvenient, it was never solidarity at all.

A generation raised on slogans has mistaken emotion for ethics.
They cry “Free Palestine,” but mean “Free Palestine — so long as the heroes stay pure.”

Yet Gaza’s people deserve more than hashtags.
They deserve freedom from walls and from the tyrants who rule their streets with bullets and fear.

What True Freedom Requires

To Free Palestine is not to destroy Israel.
It is to free Gaza from Hamas.

That means:

• No longer excusing barbarism as “resistance.”

• Condemning every murderer, regardless of the flag they wave.

• Demanding that Palestinian lives matter — even when those lives are taken by Palestinians.

Conclusion: The Courage to See Clearly

We were told the story was simple: one side evil, one side good.
But truth has never bowed to simplicity.

Today, the world sees Hamas’s brutality, not as rumor but as fact.
And still, too many remain silent.

Where are the outcries from the “human-rights” activists?
Where are the journalists who once shouted “apartheid”?
Where are the friends who posted slogans but now avert their eyes?

It’s time to reclaim moral clarity.
If you genuinely want to Free Palestine, begin by freeing it from those who hold its people hostage — Hamas, the barbarians within.

Author’s Note

I write not from ideology, but from grief — for every life crushed beneath lies, for every friendship poisoned by propaganda, for every silence mistaken for virtue.
The test of conscience is not when truth flatters us, but when it confronts us.
And the truth today is simple: Gaza’s greatest enemy is not across its border, but within its walls.