Uncovering the Mask of Hamas

The True Face of Hamas' Psychosexual Perversion

screenshot for educational purposes from The Jerusalem Post 06.04.25

By

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, PhD

Counter terrorist experts often refer to covering the face with a keffiyah, scarf or mask as a tactical strategy so that their entities cannot be revealed. In the case of Hamas, this prevents identification and targeting by the IDF and other intelligence agencies. Thus, we see that the experts focus on the presenting layer of a complex meaning system in psychological warfare.

Yet we know that 95% of thinking and 94% of non-verbal behavior is unconscious. So what does covering the face really mean? And what does it show us? Like the elephant in the room, it’s easy to miss what is literally in plain sight.

We need to remember that we are dealing with a hyper shame-honor culture. You can think of it as having a group personality or a group self that is borderline with a severe twist of psychopathic behavior. This means that the driver of the unconscious fantasies—packaged by their violent genocidal ideologies—lies at the heart of the matter.

Elsewhere, I have pointed out that their violent annihilistic fantasies, which seek to wipe Israel off the map, arise from massive unmet psychological needs. Psychological needs should not be confused with economic needs. Therefore, throwing money at Gaza does not solve the problem. The majority do not have individually developed, self-standing, autonomous, functional personalities. They engage in constant brutal scapegoating of each other within their group. They cannot get their needs met in their shame-honor culture.

The face mask is an unconscious sign that they harbor a severe perversion with regard to the female. What this means is that early childhood personal boundaries were not observed, and everyone becomes an erotic sexual object to the other, to be manipulated and abused. I don’t say this to promote empathy for Hamas, but rather to confront what it is we are really dealing with. Such behavior is projected onto and into us, and if we are not aware of it, it causes a psychological blindness—like what we saw on October 7—because it is so absolutely horrifying. Hamas is such an amazingly damaged culture that we don’t talk about how deep the root of the problems are. We merely say dismissive things like "it, i.e. the hatred and violence, comes in their mother's milk" which does not help us deal with the devil in the details. We can no longer be politically correct.

A perversion is characterized by the erotized hatred of the female. Furthermore, those who suffer from severe perversions do not want to be seen because the shame is so deep that they cannot tolerate presenting themselves as human beings. They also engage in mutilation of the body, which we tragically encountered on October 7th.

So now is the time to call a spade a spade and to foreground why they cover their faces. It’s not just to avoid being identified by the IDF. They harbor such a severely damaged being that they literally cannot face reality. They do not distinguish between fantasy and reality. We are nothing more than objects rattling around in their group self-violent mind. Even Mr. Witkoff, US special envoy for negotiations with Hamas, failed to understand Hamas when he recently tried to negotiate with them. He admitted he had been duped but this is because to be subjected to Hamas' flagrant psychosis is so terrifying as it threatens our sanity. However, knowing this becomes our critical tool in our psychological toolbox to be used against them. It is only in this way that we prevail.