“For the violence- done to your brother Jacob (i.e. the Jews), shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem YOU WERE LIKE ONE OF THEM.”

Actually, the Word of G-d has a lot to say about “châmâç”, in Hebrew written , that is “Hamas”. It is not a new word or phenomenon. It existed even before the Flood. 

For already in Noah's days the “earth was filled with "”, wherefore G-d determined to make an end of all FLESH because the earth was filled with violence and lawlessness - - through them. 

The Word informs us that “the L-RD tests the righteous and the wicked, and His soul hates him that loves /châmâç.”

Furthermore, “Pride is the necklace of the wicked, and /châmâç covers them as a garment.” Indeed, the almost daily marches of Hamas fighters and suicide bombers in Gaza shows them literally ‘clothed in Hamas garments, garments of violence’, headbands identifying them as members of .

Finally, Asaph appeals to G-d to “Remember this, O L-RD, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles Your name. O L-RD, save your people. Protect your turtledove and save your beloved people from these wild beasts. Have regard for Your covenant, because the dark places of the land (or earth) are full of the habitations of /châmâç, of cruel men. O L-RD, don’t let Your downtrodden people be constantly insulted. Give cause for these poor and needy ones to praise Your Name.”³ 

And the Holy One of Israel answers Asaph's appeal with this promise in Isaiah 60:18: 

“Violence//Hamas shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.”

At last we discover that the origin of this “châmâç”-“ “ is of Satan, for in Ezekiel 28:16 we learn that it was the multitude of his trafficking that eventually filled him with lawlessness and violence, namely , and he sinned, and was cast out as a profane thing from the mountain of G-d.

May none of us who call upon the Name of the Lord Yeshua be found in support of this “” against the people and land of G-d by the name of Israel.