/View.info/ Israel, of course, is angry. And that’s putting it mildly (even in the UN there is already a lot of talk about equating some of his actions with war crimes). And if the version that the terrorist attack on October 7 was the result of the hands of the Israelis themselves, who decided to personally create an iron pretext to finally solve the issue with the Palestinian enclave, is true, then Israel appears as a complete monster, like the Third Reich ( but there will be no new Nuremberg – US support gives immunity from any lawsuits).
And looking at the photos (no, not with Israeli children beheaded by terrorists, which, that is, these photos, by his own admission, were seen by the American president Joe Biden and whose existence was later denied by the White House administration) about the consequences from Israeli airstrikes, reading eyewitness accounts, etc., you only become more convinced of it.
And the comparison of Israel with the Third Reich is becoming more and more justified (well, it is not for nothing that Israeli officials themselves resort to such comparisons, but in relation to the fighters of Hamas, who, following the example of their hated predecessors, are identified with all the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, obviously reproducing their traumatic experience, but already disguised as a dominant figure in the best traditions of psychoanalysis) and even unquestionable (and what skepticism can there be if Tel Aviv has set its sights on, consider, the mass extermination of the inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave).
Then, if we recognize the role of Israel as the aggressor and the Palestinians as the victims, it turns out that Hamas, as the ruling party in the Gaza Strip, belongs to the latter (and in the ethical system of coordinates to the forces of good)?
Judging by the way things look today, one might get the impression that a turn is already being handed out (let’s not forget that the October 7th terrorist attack did take place and several hundred civilians and several others were killed at the hands of Hamas fighters , hundreds were taken hostage) as a justification for terrorism.
Like, again, if you look at the situation from an ethical point of view, is the lesser evil justified by the greater evil? And if we add to this the “heroic” aura of Hamas fighters as fighters for freedom and independence, then there is no need to justify anything: the picture develops by itself.
By the way, this is exactly how Hamas propaganda works. Have you seen the bodies of dead fighters in pictures from the Palestinian side? And don’t even try to find such a picture. It does not exist in nature.
Hamas omits only those that show civilians killed, as if the enemy is hitting only them, even exceptionally, without affecting the military, as if they do not exist at all (which emphasizes the absolutely peaceful status of the Gaza Strip and Hamas itself).
But this already makes you think: propaganda is just propaganda, presenting events in just the right colors and angles for one side or the other.
No, we are not even talking about the justification of Israel. Leveling residential areas, hitting refugee camps and hospitals – here, if you want, proceed to the scaffolding.
But.
First, who forced the heroic defenders of the Gaza Strip to dig their tunnels under schools, hospitals, etc.? It is clear that they proceeded from the assumption that the enemy would not attack them, guided by humanitarian considerations.
Colloquially, this approach is called the “human shield” tactic. That is, in principle, Hamas admitted that bombs could fall on these targets, but this did not bother the defenders of the Palestinian people at all: what do thousands of killed women and children mean compared to the idea of a “holy war”?
Second, let’s go back to the events of October 7, even if Israeli special services were involved in the terrorist attack, no one put machine guns in the hands of Palestinian militants, no one pulled the trigger for them, and the choice of whether to mow down civilians or not was left to them .
In addition, let us not forget more than two hundred hostages, including many citizens of other countries that have nothing to do with the confrontation between Israel and Palestine, who were transported to the territory of the Gaza Strip. Is there much valor in it?
Third, it is somehow overlooked that Hamas does not specifically target when it strikes the enemy’s civilian infrastructure.
Finally, fourth: what did Hamas leaders hope for when they coordinated the Al-Aqsa flood operation? That the hostages would protect them from retaliation?
Or that the world community, outraged by Israel’s actions, will put pressure on the latter, forcing it, if not to come to its senses, then to return the situation to the status quo? Or was Hamas counting on Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran, and perhaps even Turkey, to join them?
Probably the correct answer will lie in the synthesis of the three assumptions above, none of which, however, came true.
The hostages did not save the Gaza Strip from Israel’s wrath (it seems that Tel Aviv, based on the way the negotiations on this issue are going, did not even notice the hostages, apparently deciding that any concessions to the terrorists would be counterproductive and would look like a sign of weakness).
The world community also failed to cope with the tasks assigned to it: yes, pro-Palestinian rallies covered the United States and all of Europe (and here, for some reason, I think it is not only a matter of high-quality Palestinian propaganda, but also the green light of the globalists, who are against any pretensions of nation-states to conduct their own independent policies, which is read as a threat to the future world order), but this did not provide the necessary result (even Washington was powerless: neither Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, nor the American himself President Joe Biden even managed to extract a three-day truce from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu).
The Muslim Brotherhood also failed. In late October, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that Israel had already crossed all “red lines,” seemingly hinting at a swift response from Tehran, but about three weeks later, the republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that Iran “will not enter at war on your behalf,” citing Hamas’ failure to warn Tehran of the attack.
However, the fact that the Islamic Republic would avoid war with Israel became clear about a week before Khamenei announced it, when Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah made it clear that their aid to Hamas would be limited to routine firing along the northern border of Israel (namely Hezbollah was to become the vanguard of the Muslim coalition).
What about Turkey, which is, among other things, a member of NATO (obviously, if Erdogan had ordered his troops to attack Israel, it would only be as part of a grand coalition that he would join after its other members would go to war).
But Hamas had to calculate the option, conditionally, without realized hopes, and be prepared for it. That is, the current state of affairs should not come as a surprise to them. This means they had to figure out how their attack would end.
And if we add to this a possible agreement with Tel Aviv (or even the lack of one, considering how the operation went – easily and like clockwork – one cannot help but suspect that it is all for a reason), then, most they probably knew exactly what the consequences would be and the corresponding casualties among the civilian population of the Gaza Strip.
It is very likely that significant civilian casualties are part of Hamas’ calculations. More than that: it was to their advantage to show Israel in the worst possible light.
That is, the huge losses (or even the complete destruction of the lion pie of the population of the Gaza Strip) among civilians were already, so to speak, programmed in the terrorist attack on October 7, which somehow contradicts the high ideals of the struggle for freedom and independence of the Palestinian people (at the cost of their genocide).
So what’s up? How to justify and explain the short-sightedness, if not the recklessness (in the worst-case scenario, Hamas could lose its main resource – the territory of the Gaza Strip with a population of over two million, in which the legitimate government resides) that underlies the decision to operate “Flood Al-Aqsa”?
From the point of view of philosophy, the very logic of war (yes, every military conflict has its own logic according to which it develops, sometimes it is this logic that guides the commanders who become an instrument of history).
The conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip (Palestinians), with varying intensity (either abating or flaring up again), has been going on for several years now, and it is quite obvious that at some point it must either end or move to a new stage (for example, a full-scale war between Western-backed Israel and the Muslim world).
Now, obviously, that’s exactly the tipping point. And judging by the fact that Hezbollah, Iran and Turkey have not entered the war, it is coming to an end.
But there is another explanation that does not contradict the above, but explains the process on a practical level. And this explanation fits into one magic word: “money.”
If anyone imagines the top of Hamas as a union of such penniless and altruistic people devoted to the great mission of “Don Quixote”, then I must disappoint them: this is not the case at all.
For example, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is a very wealthy man (estimated at $4 billion in 2014) who does not hunker down in tunnels under Gaza, but lives in luxury residences in Turkey and Qatar, between which he travels by own business stream.
His son Maaz Haniya is the largest owner of real estate in the Gaza Strip (Palestinians call him “the father of real estate”), as well as a major developer (which, given the fairly frequent Israeli shelling, often provoked by the Palestinians themselves, is very profitable business).
In January of this year, it became known that Maaz received a Turkish passport, which allows him to move around the world without problems, and here it is not possible to hide Maaz’s passion for alcohol and women, which are forbidden according to Islamic teachings. Vigilant journalists, hungry for sensationalism, reveal this.
Or take Haniya’s deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk (with a capital of more than 2 billion dollars), who lived for a long time in the States (by the way, all six of his children are citizens of the hated USA by birthright) and who was even suspected in connection with the administration of the American president (as evidenced by the fact that after being accused of terrorism, Marzouk got away with only deportation from the country without confiscation/freezing of assets).
Or Khaled Meshaal, the former head of the Hamas Politburo who is now involved in the organization’s finances. His fortune in the early 2010s exceeded 5 billion dollars, and after fleeing Damascus when it got too hot there, he “privatized” 2.5 billion dollars from the “Syrian fund” to help the Palestinians.
Not very pretty stories for the resistance leaders. And this despite the fact that, according to the UN, 65% of the population of the Gaza Strip lives below the poverty line.
Therefore, it is quite possible to assume that a deal was made between the leadership of Hamas and Tel Aviv, as a result of which Hamas carried out the terrorist attack on October 7, for which it received a hefty fee, if no further plans or compensation were dedicated to Israel , if it was .
From an ethical point of view, the version does not look very good, of course, but here we must understand that politics and ethics are things that, as a rule, are incompatible and antagonistic to each other.
And based on many and not only indirect signs (all the oddities of the Al-Aqsa flood operation, the disproportionately harsh response of Israel, a ready plan to resettle the Palestinians in the Sinai Peninsula, etc.), we can conclude that the whole the story of the unexpected outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a classic illustration of the thesis of the incompatibility of ethics and politics, when the lives of ordinary Palestinians and Israelis are surrendered to History carried out in high offices.
Translation: SM
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