Hamas had a plan for what its October 7, 2023 attack would accomplish, and it looks like things went according to plan. From Mike Whitney at unz.com:
In the last few days, a significant number of countries have announced their decision to recognize a Palestinian state. At the same time, the leaders of these countries have repeatedly condemned the attacks of October 7. Can you see the problem here? The two positions are logically incompatible.
It makes no sense to repudiate the actions of a group like Hamas as “terrorism” and then cave in to their demands on statehood. And –despite what you might have read in the western media– the explicit goal of the October 7 attacks was the creation of a Palestinian state.(More on that later) So, yes, condemning Hamas’s methods while giving into its demands appears to be hypocritical.
But is that what’s really going on here or are many of these countries simply acknowledging that Hamas is not a terrorist organization at all but a national liberation movement that is justified in defending its land from foreign occupation? (According to Grok– As of September 23, 2025, only 10 countries have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization.The designation is basically a hoax to propagandize western populations) Aren’t these nations simply admitting what reasonable people have known from the beginning, that oppressed people have the right to self-determination (including armed resistance) in cases of colonial domination, foreign occupation, or alien subjugation. These rights are guaranteed under international law.
So, these leaders are not hypocrites; they’re just acknowledging the “rightness” of Hamas cause, which is why they are throwing their support behind an independent Palestinian state.
