According to an article published in The New York Times, Hamas leaders say they carried out the October 7 attacks against Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was fading and that “only violence could revive it.” The more than 1,400 deaths and the capture of 240 hostages do not cause “regret”, on the contrary. The text says:
“After the bloody calculation of the Hamas leaders, The carnage is not the unfortunate result of a major misjudgment. Quite the oppositeThey say: It is the necessary price of a major achievement breaking the status quo and opening a new, more volatile chapter in their fight against Israel.
It is necessary to “change the whole equation and not just have a confrontation,” Khalil alHayya, a member of Hamas’s main leadership body, told The New York Times in Doha, Qatar. “We managed to put the Palestinian issue back on the table and now no one in the region is calm.”
“I hope that the state of war with Israel becomes permanent at all borders and may the Arab world be with us,” said Taher ElNounou, Hamas press spokesman.”
“The attack turned out to be more comprehensive and deadlier than even its planners had expected, they said, largely because the attackers were able to easily breach Israel’s vaunted defenses and thus enter military bases and residential areas without much resistance.” As Hamas one They raided part of southern Israel, killing and capturing more soldiers and civilians than expected, officials said.
The attack was so devastating that it served one of the conspirators’ primary goals: resolving longstanding tension within Hamas over the group’s identity and purpose. Was it primarily a government agency responsible for managing daily life in Gaza or was it still essentially a military force tirelessly committed to destroying Israel and replacing it with an Islamic Palestinian state?
With the attack, the group’s leaders in Gaza including Yahya Sinwar, who spent more than 20 years in Israeli prisons, and Mohammed Deif, a shadowy military commander whom Israel repeatedly tried to assassinate answered that question. They intensified the military confrontation.”
The article, based on dozens of interviews with representatives of the Hamas leadership over the past thirty days, helps to demoralize the narrative that Hamas terrorism is an unwanted side effect in the struggle of an oppressed people looking for a solution to… Peace leads. Islamic radicals make no secret of their intention to collectively exterminate the State of Israel and, if possible, the Israeli population.