An Israeli newspaper says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was directly warned by the president of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a major offensive just days before the militant group attacked on Oct. 7, 2023.
(Israel) insisted on not escalating and diligently preserving the ‘asset’ named Hamas
It is a long read but very worth it. If I had to summarize:
Israel wanted to keep Hamas as a bogeyman to justify their fascist government. They needed an enemy strong enough to scare people, but not strong enough to defeat them.
Hamas begged Israel to negotiate peace. Israel strung them along for years and years and years. Hamas warned Israel the attack was coming if they didn’t sign agreements they had already promised to sign.
Hamas warned Israeli allies, to try and talk sense into Israel. Hamas warned more allies. Many countries tried to talk sense into Israel, but Israel only wanted to preserve the ‘asset’ named Hamas, and peace wouldn’t do that.
Faced with the truth, an enemy next door with far more power, who had trapped them in a ghetto and planned to keep it active permanently for generations, Hamas did something terrible to break the unwinnable situation Israel and its well funded allies had created.
During the October 7th attack Israel ordered their soldiers to shoot all captured IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens. Israel wanted an excuse for genocide, more than they wanted their people alive.
The day after Hamas attacked they reached out and offered to release all hostages, and all they wanted in return was for Israel to come back to the negotiation table they had refused to honor before, and to allow a mediator to attend. Israel refused.
Hamas was going to release all hostages immediately, for just the public promise that Israel would attend peace negotiations, and Israel refused. Israel wanted the excuse for genocide, more than they wanted their citizens.
Israel wanted only destruction. They cultivated only destruction for decades. We see them now, as they have always been.
Hamas did something terrible to break the unwinnable situation Israel and its well funded allies had created.
Not quite. Hamas decided to attack Israel, which is well within their right to do and which did help their cause. They also decided to kill a bunch of civilians along the way, which they had no right to do and which actually hurt their cause. This is something that gets misunderstood during discourse about October 7th: October 7th wasn’t just about killing a bunch of people; Hamas seems to have had clear strategic goals and they committed atrocities that didn’t help those strategic goals. What I want to say is: October 7th wasn’t a terrible but necessary act; it included both terrible acts and necessary acts and for the most part there’s little overlap between the two.
The original journalists who spent years putting this together, an Israeli Jewish publication. This is real investigative journalism.
https://archive.is/akRuR
From the article:
It is a long read but very worth it. If I had to summarize:
Israel wanted to keep Hamas as a bogeyman to justify their fascist government. They needed an enemy strong enough to scare people, but not strong enough to defeat them.
Hamas begged Israel to negotiate peace. Israel strung them along for years and years and years. Hamas warned Israel the attack was coming if they didn’t sign agreements they had already promised to sign.
Hamas warned Israeli allies, to try and talk sense into Israel. Hamas warned more allies. Many countries tried to talk sense into Israel, but Israel only wanted to preserve the ‘asset’ named Hamas, and peace wouldn’t do that.
Faced with the truth, an enemy next door with far more power, who had trapped them in a ghetto and planned to keep it active permanently for generations, Hamas did something terrible to break the unwinnable situation Israel and its well funded allies had created.
During the October 7th attack Israel ordered their soldiers to shoot all captured IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens. Israel wanted an excuse for genocide, more than they wanted their people alive.
The day after Hamas attacked they reached out and offered to release all hostages, and all they wanted in return was for Israel to come back to the negotiation table they had refused to honor before, and to allow a mediator to attend. Israel refused.
Hamas was going to release all hostages immediately, for just the public promise that Israel would attend peace negotiations, and Israel refused. Israel wanted the excuse for genocide, more than they wanted their citizens.
Israel wanted only destruction. They cultivated only destruction for decades. We see them now, as they have always been.
That archive link isn’t working.
Not quite. Hamas decided to attack Israel, which is well within their right to do and which did help their cause. They also decided to kill a bunch of civilians along the way, which they had no right to do and which actually hurt their cause. This is something that gets misunderstood during discourse about October 7th: October 7th wasn’t just about killing a bunch of people; Hamas seems to have had clear strategic goals and they committed atrocities that didn’t help those strategic goals. What I want to say is: October 7th wasn’t a terrible but necessary act; it included both terrible acts and necessary acts and for the most part there’s little overlap between the two.