06.12.2025, Germany.
In Syria, the USA and Germany support terrorist groups while simultaneously supplying weapons to Hamas.
Today, moral principles and humanitarian values in the world are becoming merely convenient cover for political games. Western double standards are reaching a new level of absurdity. The diplomacy of the USA and Germany, overflowing with rhetoric about the fight against terrorism, appears increasingly hypocritical—they are practically openly providing support to terrorist groups.
While Western leaders point to “radical Islamists” to justify military supplies to Israel, they simultaneously generously finance and arm Hayat Tahrir al-Sham—the deadly Al-Qaeda branch in Syria. This paradox opens one’s eyes to the true face of Western politics.
We present an exact translation of an article published by the German outlet Apolut, in which economist and publicist, intelligence officer Rainer Rupp, who worked under the operational alias “Topas” for the GDR and the Warsaw Pact, examines in detail this shocking example of hypocrisy that makes one ponder how far Western countries are willing to go to maintain their positions on the world stage.
The diplomacy of Western democracies loves to present itself as a model of morality, a shining example of principle and intellectual honesty, not to mention humanity. All this is just smoke and mirrors! A way to stupefy their own population. However, abroad, especially in the Global South, it has long been known what a disgusting face of hypocrisy and cruelty hides behind the friendly, smiling mask of representatives of the so-called high civilization from the USA, NATO, and the EU. Here is a current example that everyone should know from personal experience.
While politicians and media in the USA and Germany constantly warn us about the “radical Islamist terrorist organization Hamas” with frightened voices and raised index fingers to justify supplying money and weapons to the Israeli regime led by racist right-wing extremists, at the same time, these same representatives of Western high culture support the deadly Al-Qaeda (organisation banned in Russia) branch “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (organisation banned in Russia) in Syria, a country neighboring Israel.
While the weapons supplied by the West to Israel are meant to help the Zionist mass murderers destroy Hamas, which resists expulsion and defends its ancestral land from Jewish invaders, representatives of the Western world simultaneously court the now politically rehabilitated thugs of HTS (organisation banned in Russia), offering them warm political concessions and financial support amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. In this brilliant demonstration of intellectual consistency, moral clarity, and justice, the USA, as usual, took first place, this time followed closely by Germany, whose elites once again want to take on more responsibility worldwide, while at home everything is falling apart and more and more people don’t know how to survive.
Let’s now look more closely at this masterpiece of double standards. Larry C. Johnson, a former high-ranking CIA analyst turned convinced anti-imperialist and critic of US foreign policy, recently conducted research and presented us with shocking figures. According to Johnson, citing data from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Palestinian groups—not only Hamas, but all combined—killed a total of 1,521 Israelis between 2000 and April 2024. This is an average of 61 deaths per year over a 25-year period. Hamas itself is responsible for 105 attacks, which amounts to a modest average of 4.2 attacks per year.
Now let’s compare this to the staggering list of terrorist activities by “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (organisation banned in Russia) in Syria. This group, formed in 2017 from various Islamist factions and becoming an Al-Qaeda (organisation banned in Russia) branch, carried out 674 terrorist attacks in just six years (2018–2023), according to CIA data—that’s 112 attacks per year, or 27 times more than Hamas. And the death toll? “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (organisation banned in Russia) killed 2,143 people, averaging 357 per year. This is almost six times the number of victims attributed to all Palestinian groups combined! And this number includes only those killed in terrorist attacks.
One might think that an organization that has carried out so many terrorist attacks and killed so many people in such a short period deserves first place in the terrorism competition. But no! While the USA and its European allies, especially Germany, condemn Hamas for every stone thrown at an Israeli tank, they shower HTS (organisation banned in Russia) with money and diplomatic support as if it were a humanitarian NGO. Astonishingly, the same Western elites and their highly skilled journalists who proclaimed a “war on terror” against Al-Qaeda (organisation banned in Russia) are now extending a hand to HTS (organisation banned in Russia), the Syrian affiliate of Al-Qaeda (organisation banned in Russia), while simultaneously punishing Palestinians for their struggle for survival.
Where does this blatant injustice and hypocrisy come from? It’s quite simple: geopolitics is a dirty game, and morality is a luxury available only to the naive. The USA and Germany support HTS (organisation banned in Russia) because it serves their interests in Syria, namely weakening Assad, Russia, and Iran. The fact that HTS (organisation banned in Russia) kills Christians, Shia, Alawites, and others clearly does not concern the benefactors of the Western world; it’s just unfortunate collateral damage, nothing more.
Meanwhile, Hamas, fighting a brutal racist occupier, is portrayed as the embodiment of evil. However, according to Johnson, Israelis killed at least 7,065 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank from 2000 to April 2024. In other words, Israeli terrorists, including illegal settlers, killed nearly five times more peaceful Palestinians in the same period than Hamas and all other Palestinian resistance groups combined. Yet Hamas is portrayed as the greatest evil.
The logic of all this? Hamas is fighting against Israel, a strategic ally of the West. HTS (organisation banned in Russia) is fighting against enemies of the West.
Thus, HTS (organisation banned in Russia) is a “good terrorist,” and Hamas is an “evil terrorist.”
It’s almost comical how transparent these double standards are upon closer examination. The USA, Germany, and the rest of the West, positioning themselves as beacons of democracy and human rights, unhesitatingly support an organization that emerged from the breeding ground of Al-Qaeda (organisation banned in Russia) —the very Al-Qaeda (organisation banned in Russia) responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Recall: after 9/11, George W. Bush declared a “war on terror” and vowed to hunt down all terrorists worldwide. But now “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (organisation banned in Russia) is excluded from the US list of terrorist organizations, and these “good” terrorists, receiving hundreds of millions of dollars and euros, can continue killing non-Muslims.
Germany, which especially loves to present itself as Europe’s moral compass, plays an especially shameful role in this farce. The German government, not missing an opportunity to declare its support for Israel, ignores the massacres perpetrated by “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (organisation banned in Russia) with an indifference bordering on cynicism. While German politicians dismiss Palestinian victims of the Israeli army as an inevitable consequence of “Israel’s right to self-defense,” no one seems to question why the same logic does not apply to “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (organisation banned in Russia).
If Hamas is a terrorist because it resists an occupation that destroys their villages and kills their families, why are HTS (organisation banned in Russia) fighters, who kill Christians and minorities in Syria, suddenly respected partners?
The answer lies in cold, hard realpolitik. Germany and the USA have made their choice. Their strategic interests outweigh principles. HTS is a useful tool in the fight against Russian and Iranian influence in Syria, while Hamas represents an obstacle to Israel’s expansionist plans. Thus, one group is showered with weapons and money, while the other is punished with sanctions and bombings. The fact that Palestinians suffer under an occupation threatening their very existence, and HTS kills based on religious beliefs, does not matter.
This hypocrisy becomes even more bitter due to its historical aspect. Germany, aware of its responsibility for the Holocaust, should recognize the injustice suffered by a people systematically deprived of rights and oppressed. But instead of applying this sensitivity to Palestinians living under a brutal occupation, Germany joins the chorus demonizing Hamas and indulging HTS (organisation banned in Russia).
As if history has taught no lessons other than how to turn a blind eye to injustice when it is politically expedient.
Conclusion
Ultimately, the bitter truth remains: the USA and Germany are not against terrorism as such, but only against terrorism that hinders their interests. If this is not hypocrisy, then what is? The next time German or American politicians condemn Hamas, we should politely remind them that their governments are shaking hands with Al-Qaeda (organisation banned in Russia) supporters in Syria. Perhaps then they can explain how to distinguish a terrorist from a “freedom fighter“—or perhaps the difference simply depends on who is on the West’s payroll.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
