NYT: Hamas decided to attack due to internal unrest in Israel | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | Tishri 11, 5785 – Sunday, October 13, 2024

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Records of secret Hamas meetings seized by the IDF and acquired by The New York Times provide a comprehensive account of the preparations for the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack. These documents also reveal the efforts of mega-terrorist Yahya Sinwar to attack Iran to convince Hezbollah to take part in the attack or at least start a war with Israel should Hamas make a surprise incursion across the border.

The transcripts reveal the integrity of the right’s arguments during the year of arguments over the government’s judicial reform, the rallies, the paralysis of Ben-Gurion airport, trains and major arteries and, most importantly, the movement of the air force and others Reservists refusing to serve under Netanyahu played an important role in Sinwar and his lieutenants’ decisions to attack.

They weren’t wrong. The Hamas invaders found an open border with infantry soldiers sleeping in their bases and lambs to slaughter, and the air force was only able to intervene in the late afternoon of October 7.

“As they prepared arguments aimed at Hezbollah, Hamas leaders said Israel’s ‘internal situation’ – an apparent reference to unrest over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial plans to overhaul the judiciary – was one of the reasons “Why they were ‘forced to turn to a strategic battle,'” the NY Times quoted from the Hamas minutes.

The documents are the minutes of 10 confidential planning meetings held by a select group of Hamas political and military officials leading up to the attack. This transcript contains 30 pages (59 pages according to the Washington Post) of previously unpublished information about the operational dynamics of the Hamas leadership and the extensive preparations for the attack.

These protocols also illustrate how well Sinwar et al. were informed about the Israeli security establishment’s concept. They reveal Hamas’s significant efforts to mislead Israel about its true intentions while laying the groundwork for a daring offensive and potential regional conflict that Sinwar expected would lead to Israel’s downfall.

Haaretz reluctantly reported on Saturday evening: “The documents say that one of the reasons for the Hamas attack was the internal conflict that broke out in Israel due to the attempts of the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu to encourage the judicial coup.”‘ état.” Nothing about Haaretz’s pervasive role in fomenting war between brothers. And nothing about this anti-Zionist newspaper’s ongoing efforts to poison the newly formed brotherly love in Israel after the catastrophe of October 7th.

Hamas originally planned to carry out the operation, dubbed “the big project,” in the fall of 2022. However, it postponed the implementation of this plan while trying to involve Iran and Hezbollah. In July 2023, Hamas sent a senior official to Lebanon, where he consulted with a senior Iranian commander and requested assistance in targeting critical locations early in the offensive.

This senior Iranian official told Hamas that both Iran and Hezbollah supported it but needed additional time to prepare. Possibly because Tehran had more accurately assessed Israel’s ability to recover from a surprise attack, even if it occurred on two fronts.

But Sinwar was not wrong in his assessment of Israel’s weakness due to its internal conflict. Here is one example out of hundreds, if not thousands: On July 16, 2023, Israel Hayom reported that “against the background of the threats of refusal and in anticipation of the ‘Day of Resistance’ that will take place on Tuesday, on Sunday a In the name of the reservist protests The “Brothers in Arms” issued a statement saying: “If there is not the change necessary for the tough measures, the damage to the people’s army will be irreversible.”

The blunt threat came ahead of a Knesset vote on the reasonableness clause, which denied the Supreme Court the power to overturn government actions, even if they were in accordance with the law, because the justices deemed them “unreasonable.”

“At the beginning of a week, we all understand that there is no second chance for Israeli democracy,” Brothers in Arms proclaimed, adding: “The passage of the law to repeal the adequacy clause is the gateway to a dictatorship after which Israel is no longer “democratic.”

“If the Israeli government does not demonstrate its willingness to change this week, the damage will be greatest to the People’s Army,” the group threatened.

It was. In total, more than 1,200 Israelis were murdered and 240 taken hostage by Hamas in one day.

None of this stopped President Yitzchak Herzog from awarding Brothers in Arms the country’s volunteer award as part of a broader effort to whitewash the group’s despicable role in degrading the IDF’s military capabilities.

Thank God for Yahya Sinwar who kept track…