The main underlying reason for equating Hamas, a Palestinian resistance movement, with Daesh is to criminalise ordinary Palestinians whose lives could be compromised with impunity.
People with Palestinian flag and banners gather in front of the US Embassy to protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza in Beirut, Lebanon on October 18, 2023. / Photo: AA Archive
“Daesh has become a byword for absolute, unmitigated evil that is removed from any context and not related to a cause that anyone would want to defend,” says Heiko Wimmen, the project director of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon at the International Crisis Group, an American think-tank.
But almost totally disregarding such backdoor talks held in the past, “Israeli propagandists have overshot the mark and internationalised their local propaganda to not only vilify Hamas but dehumanize Palestinians as a whole,” Moiz tellsThe Hamas-Daesh identification also aims to amplify the outpouring of “international support for Israel even more and discourages criticism of the Israeli conduct of the war and a possible ground invasion,” says Wimmen, the Beirut-based political analyst.
While all these groups are armed organisations, they have significant differences from their historical roots to regional objectives and overarching ideologies, says Ahmad. But the West under the influence of Israeli propaganda increasingly loses the big picture, seeing almost all Muslims as potential terrorists, according to Ahmad..
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