“Hamas built schools, hospitals….” Well, she is right about that. But she does not ignore what these schools and hospitals are used for. She simply thinks that it is legitimate to use schools and hospitals in order to attack Jews and access terror tunnels. Because she belongs to the group of people who are respectable people who support making killing Jews respectable.
Francesca Albanese: “People continue to say ‘But Hamas, Hamas, Hamas’… I don't think people have any idea what Hamas is. Hamas is a political force that won the 2005 elections—whether we like it or not. Hamas built schools, public facilities, hospitals. It was simply the… pic.twitter.com/F9sGqAJPY2
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) August 15, 2025
What most people need to understand is that this woman and NY mayoral candidate Momdani have basically the same world outlook. It is an outlook that truly strives to see the destruction of the Jewish State, but couches it in diplomatic concern for the humanitarian plight of Arabs. It is barely even hidden in diplomatic jargon. These Israel-haters simply deny that Hamas is all about fighting and killing Jews. They claim that Hamas just wants to have self-determination and their own State, and then all would be fine.
Well, they had their own State, and all Hamas did was to promptly usurp 90% of the finances transferred from all over the world and turn them into terror tunnels, missile factories, and mansions for the few corrupt leaders at the top of the pyramid. The pathetic thing about all of those who claim to stand for “justice in Palestine” is that they conveniently choose to ignore the Hamas leadership themselves who say nothing about wanting an Arab State beside the Jewish State. Hamas clearly states their intention to destroy the Jewish State. Compromise is not part of their vocabulary and their is nothing to discuss about them even recognizing the existence of the Jewish State.
No, Hamas is not just a democratically elected group that builds schools and hospitals. They are an organized terrorist group that intimidates and controls nearly 90% of the Arab population in Gaza and builds schools and hospitals to further this ideology of death.