ISRAEL IS WALKING INTO A TRAP”
“Hamas’s ruthless attack on southern Israel last Saturday was many things, but above all, it was intended as a trap—one that Israel appears about to fall into.”
“Hamas’s leaders and their Iranian backers have a conscious strategy. Like almost all other acts of spectacularly bloodthirsty terrorism, Hamas’s assault on southern Israel was designed to provoke an emotional and equally or even more outrageous response by the targeted society.”
“Hamas surely would not have meticulously planned its audacious assault without also extensively planning a response to the hoped-for Israeli counterattack on the ground.”
“Iran and Hamas are counting on Israel to attack Gaza with such ferocity that the international sympathy of the past week toward Israel, even in the Arab world, evaporates quickly and is replaced by outrage at the suffering inflicted on the 2 million residents of Gaza.”
“IHamas and its Iranian patrons want to block the diplomatic-normalization agreement that the United States has been brokering between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
“Hamas is also attempting to seal the fate of Fatah, and maneuver to eventually take over the PLO and its international diplomatic presence, including United Nations observer-state status and embassies around the world. By taking the battle directly into Israel, claiming to be defending Muslim holy places Hamas seeks to belittle Fatah and demonstrate the primacy of its policy of unrestrained armed struggle over the PLO’s careful diplomacy.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-iran-trap/675628/
Hamas has to know that their terrorism wasn’t going to accomplish anything concrete but pissing off Israel, and they have been thru this before, knowing the consequences, so it raises the question of what is their primary goal?
Is Israel possibly stepping into a trap? What alternative does Israel have?
“Hamas’s ruthless attack on southern Israel last Saturday was many things, but above all, it was intended as a trap—one that Israel appears about to fall into.”
“Hamas’s leaders and their Iranian backers have a conscious strategy. Like almost all other acts of spectacularly bloodthirsty terrorism, Hamas’s assault on southern Israel was designed to provoke an emotional and equally or even more outrageous response by the targeted society.”
“Hamas surely would not have meticulously planned its audacious assault without also extensively planning a response to the hoped-for Israeli counterattack on the ground.”
“Iran and Hamas are counting on Israel to attack Gaza with such ferocity that the international sympathy of the past week toward Israel, even in the Arab world, evaporates quickly and is replaced by outrage at the suffering inflicted on the 2 million residents of Gaza.”
“IHamas and its Iranian patrons want to block the diplomatic-normalization agreement that the United States has been brokering between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
“Hamas is also attempting to seal the fate of Fatah, and maneuver to eventually take over the PLO and its international diplomatic presence, including United Nations observer-state status and embassies around the world. By taking the battle directly into Israel, claiming to be defending Muslim holy places Hamas seeks to belittle Fatah and demonstrate the primacy of its policy of unrestrained armed struggle over the PLO’s careful diplomacy.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-iran-trap/675628/
Hamas has to know that their terrorism wasn’t going to accomplish anything concrete but pissing off Israel, and they have been thru this before, knowing the consequences, so it raises the question of what is their primary goal?
Is Israel possibly stepping into a trap? What alternative does Israel have?