Q&A: How Does God Judge Hamas Terrorists?

question is when you have people like Kamas uh where a lot of the uh people were lit literally indoctrinated they were brainwashed from a very young age to hate Jews to want to kill Jews and then they grow up and they become murderers and they become terrorists so the question becomes how does Hashem judge them does Hashem say hey you guys are Nazis you guys are Hitlers therefore you get the biggest punishments that one can imagine or there is is there some side of mitigation giving the fact given the fact that they were brainwashed so it's very interesting so first of all we do have to differentiate between let's say the leadership of Kamas and maybe the rank and file followers uh the leadership are sitting in Qatar with a billion dollar uh Estates and enjoying the fruit of the land while they're ordering their followers to uh do suicide missions and and everything else so certainly I don't think the leaders get a pass at all uh with respect to the uh rank confin again this may be a little controversial I think the one thinges looks at a person's background he looks at the difficulties and that will be a mitigation Factor there's no question but it's not an excuse and the proof that it's the very proof that it's not an excuse is from the guy I refer to more than once already son of Kamas or green Prince whatever he goes by uh that guy very very fascinating person he was a son of one of the founders of kabas who was arrested in his is for terrorism and he underwent uh literally a conversion talk about Bal Chua he became a spy for Israel and Kamas and uh now he goes around and talks about it a lot and he's very very pro-israel although it's kind of amazing why there's not a fwa against him but uh apparently he goes around and does this so the Kish of that is that you see that even the person who's brainwashed from youth has the kak to make the right decisions and therefore Hashem will hold people accountable for not making those right decisions I've mentioned a number of times the famous of rabi none the beginning of M where he points out that the people of sadom were punished for not being charitable and even though charity is not one of the seven mitvah no so why are responsible he said a human being is supposed to figure certain things out and if he doesn't figure certain things out then Hashem will hold him accountable so so this doesn't totally answer your question meaning my answer would be for sure they will be accountable and punished for their riches but it won't be as as the person who made a premeditated meditated choice because you are correct their B has been taken away from them now you might be thinking right off the bed well maybe this is similar to a pyro situation right the famous question where it says Hashem hardens Pyro's heart and then hasem punished MIM and the r asks theha ifro didn't have how could there be punishments but the rambam's answer doesn't cover this situation the rambam's answer was that for the first five plagues pyro hardened his own heart and therefore the rambam says if you repeatedly go against Hashem eventually you you lose your capacity of but then you'll be accountable for everything you do because after all it came from your in the first five so that doesn't really cover that that you can't I don't think you can use the rambam to cover your situation because the kids who were indoctrinated from the age of three never had a b that they were they were choosing to assert in a good way right so it's different than parro who initially had B and then lost it as a result of his Rebellion so it is an excellent question but as I say um one way of looking at this is that we're not going after after Hamas in Revenge for their being bad people we're going after Hamas because it's like a rabid dog that you have to kill mean meaning the issue is not I mean Hashem will deal with punishment but our issue is not punishment we are not into punishing Kamas we are into eliminating a threat now at that point it makes no difference if it's a rabid dog or or or whatever it is uh you have to destroy that which is a threat to humanity or to the threat of am Israel see it's very very important that the law of Roda and the laws of mil that says we destroy an enemy is not based on punishment in fact even a cuton can be aodi if God forbid you had a you had a little kid who was wielding a gun that could go off any second the would be you could do whatever you have to do to disable the child including killing him so it's not a question of fault or Rous it's a question of uh Danger