Two months after launching a round of escalatory rocket fire into Israel and less than a month after Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense compelled it to cease that rocket fire, Hamas is celebrating its 25th anniversary this weekend. Ashraf Zayed, a spokesman for the Iran-backed terror organization, unpacked the anticipated celebrations, which are being promoted on Hamas’s social media channels with a new logo highlighting the destruction of the entirity of the Jewish state of Israel and its replacement with a Palestinian state. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar earlier this week called on Hamas’s rival Fatah to join forces and “carry the gun.” Hamas’s continued emphasis on its genocidal commitment to destroy Israel is likely to complicate the efforts in some Western capitals, and the exhortations of some Western foreign policy analysts, to engage the group.