Hamas shows the weaknesses of the Israeli secret service – and at the same time strengthens Netanyahu.
Innsbruck (OTS) – The attack on Israel could spark a conflagration and will certainly not bring a solution to the Palestinian conflict.
To this day, the Yom Kippur War has left a deep mark on Israel’s collective memory. 50 years ago, on October 6, 1973, an alliance of Arab states attacked an unprepared country on the most important Jewish holiday. 50 years later, Hamas launched a long-planned attack on Israel: on Shabbat and the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. And once again Israel is caught unprepared. The Israeli secret service may have failed. Hamas can at least celebrate this as a victory in a propaganda war. But a solution (of whatever kind) to the decades-long Palestinian conflict has probably made it impossible for the coming decades. It is not yet possible to predict what impact the attack will have. Hamas’ intention seems clear. She wants to disavow the attempt by Arab countries to achieve political normalization with Israel. She hopes that there will also be an uprising in the West Bank and is counting on the support of Hezbollah.
But Hamas risks a conflagration. And it plays into the hands of her opponent, the ailing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He will take tough action against Hamas – also in order to distract from the resistance within the country against his government. Israel’s President Yitzhak Herzog said on Friday in view of the divided Israeli society: 50 years after the Yom Kippur War, nothing has been learned. The only difference is that the threat now comes not from outside, but from within. Herzog was wrong. Likewise Hamas. There are only losers everywhere.
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