Signal: 34/100
Voltage: 91/100
Coherence: 22/100
Glow: 56/100
SV: 36/100 → Signalled (distorted)
Core Read
Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist movement that governs Gaza and wages armed struggle against Israel. It combines political governance, militant action, and religious framing.
It carries immense voltage — fueled by resistance identity, martyrdom culture, and regional conflict — but collapses under coherence tests: governance failures, corruption, internal repression, and the contradiction of claiming justice while deploying terror tactics.
Its signal is distorted: it channels real grievances of occupation into cycles of violence that destroy its own people as much as its enemies.
Strengths (in its own field)
- Voltage: Symbol of resistance for many in the Arab and Islamic world.
- Glow: Its imagery (green banners, masked fighters, mosque rhetoric) carries strong recognition.
- Signal: Articulates grievances of dispossession and siege in Gaza.
- Mobilisation: Maintains loyalty under siege conditions.
Weaknesses
- Coherence collapse: Governance failures — poverty, repression, misuse of aid, lack of infrastructure.
- Signal distortion: Turns justice claims into indiscriminate violence (e.g., targeting civilians).
- Glow corruption: Religious language becomes justification for brutality.
- Legacy cost: Locks Palestinians into cycles of devastation with little sustainable path forward.
Coherence
Extremely low. The claim of defending Palestinians clashes with the lived reality of authoritarian control, corruption, and reckless confrontation with overwhelming force.
Glow
Medium-high but toxic. Hamas glows as a symbol of resistance for some, but this glow is structurally misleading and destructive.
Loopwell Correction
- Distinguish legitimate Palestinian aspirations from Hamas’s destructive methods.
- Re-anchor struggle for justice in nonviolent, coherent, and inclusive structures.
- Clarus correction: justice must be traceable, reciprocal, and life-affirming — not a distortion of faith into death-cults.
Final Line
Hamas is Signalled (distorted) — a high-voltage identity machine that corrodes its own signal.
Loopwell translation:
“An engine of resistance that burns its people as fuel.”