We attach here just one of many examples of Arabs and religious figures saying clear and loud that the war with Israel is a war of the whole Islamic world, and not just the Palestinians.
That statement alone demolishes one of the most persistent narratives pushed in Western media: that Israel is a regional superpower oppressing a small, oppressed local population in a purely nationalist conflict. When a religious leader in Gaza openly frames the conflict as a struggle against Jews as Jews, the political mask falls away.
The demographic reality makes the claim even starker. The Muslim world numbers roughly 1.8 billion people. The Jewish people number around 15 million globally — with only about 7–8 million living in the world’s sole Jewish state. This is not a clash of equals. It is a tiny nation fighting for survival against an ideological current that vastly outnumbers it and openly rejects its right to exist.
For years, Israeli leaders have warned that Hamas and similar terror organizations are driven by Islamist ideology, not grievances that can be solved by concessions. Statements like this confirm that assessment.