Hamas must have known that the response to such a brutal attack on Israel would be merciless, excessive and limitless. Experts who have long studied the terrorist organization also point out that it called for such reprisals in the spirit of the cult of martyrdom that these apocalyptic groups cultivate.
It is also quite possible that the Islamists suspected that they were simultaneously opening a Pandora’s box and setting the Middle East on fire. We no longer separate truth from falsehood; The positions changed quickly.
Take Gaza’s Ahli Arab Hospital: Hit by Israeli fire or victim of a faulty rocket fired by Palestinians? Perhaps we will find out one day, but in the meantime the Arab streets have decided: from Bahrain to Morocco, via Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, the explosion is attributed to Israel, it is the ruler!
The awakening of latent antipathies was inevitable. There have been exchanges of fire in the border area between Israel and Lebanon, where Hezbollah militiamen, who are better equipped and better trained than those of Hamas, could expand and intensify the conflict.
Realistically, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the evacuation of the town of Kiryat Shmona, which is normally home to 25,000 residents, most of whom had already left. Kiryat Shmona is less than eighty kilometers from the Lebanese border.
EXTRAORDINARY AND MANDATORY PRECAUTION
As former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said (Joe Biden recently reminded us), the Israelis’ secret weapon is that they have nowhere else to go.
Americans were told to return home. Or at least exercise extreme caution in light of “heightened tensions in various locations around the world” that increase “the potential for terrorist attacks, protests or violent actions against American citizens and interests.” It is extremely rare for the State Department to issue such a… global warning.
WAR IN THE AIR
Washington is suspicious of Iran. He trained, armed and equipped Hamas militiamen; He was even more generous towards the Lebanese Hezbollah, and had been for a long time. Joe Biden emphasized this threat in his address to the nation on Thursday evening: “Iran supports Russia in Ukraine, as well as Hamas and other terrorist groups in the region.” »
Fears that the spark ignited by Hamas could ignite the region intensified after the Pentagon said a U.S. destroyer “operating in the northern Red Sea” shot down three surface-to-surface missiles and several drones on Thursday , which “may have been heading toward Israeli targets.”
Israel rightly wants to put an end to Hamas. However, its physical and moral intermingling with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will produce new civilian casualties, fueling the radicalization of the region’s Arab population and leaders.
It started just two weeks ago; Let’s hold on, it’s going to take a long time!
