The Islamic Republic of Iran’s doctrine is to “win without firing a single cartridge.” With the relays at her disposal, she manages to avoid wars by attacking her minions with them. That’s what it did to Hamas. For years, the Palestinian issue disappeared from the Chancellery’s radar. Israel, having assumed that this issue had been removed from the diplomatic agenda, was convinced that this deletion resolved the Palestinian question in the occupied territories.
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This was intended to forget the determination of Hamas, one of the richest terrorist movements in the world, to destroy the Jewish state. This offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood fights much less for the liberation of the occupied territories in the West Bank than for the complete and final annihilation of any Jewish presence in Islamic lands. It is so true that after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the ruling Hamas used hundreds of millions of dollars sent by several states to over-arm and bunker the enclave. Instead of improving, the already difficult living conditions of the Palestinians have deteriorated dramatically as a result. Since Hamas came to power, authoritarianism and extremism have always taken precedence over concerns for the well-being and improvement of daily life of the people of Gaza.
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Hamas pursues the same goals as Daesh. Far from being nationalistic like Fatah, these two movements aim to exclude the Ummah from any Jewish presence, regardless of the means by which they are implemented and the human cost they pay (including on the Palestinian side). The pogrom of October 7th was intended to show that the secret services of the “Zionist entity” were no longer effective. And to get people’s attention, the attack had to come fifty years after the 1973 Egyptian offensive that plunged the Israelis into the Yom Kippur War.
Netanyahu’s overwhelming responsibility
How can we understand the blindness of the Israeli authorities to the preparation of the invasion, which they had witnessed for about two years in preparation? Because these maneuvers were carried out in Gaza without secrecy (they were even filmed and broadcast) and in locations modeled on Israeli villages. For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it was just a pose. As evidence of this, he considered the fact that its members had spent four or five years trying to reduce their anti-Semitic hate speech.
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