Articles on Netanyahu’s Support of Hamas Before October 7 and on Israeli Women Soldiers’ Warnings of a Possible Hamas Attack Being Ignored

There are information tales that may be present in sudden locations that deserve a lot higher consideration and needs to be regularly cited.

One such article was within the New York Instances on December 10, 2023 beneath the title ‘Shopping for Quiet’: Contained in the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas. 

A second instance was revealed by Hadassah, The Girls’s Zionist Group of America, whose president describes Zionism as “the nationwide liberation motion of the Jewish individuals.” The July/August 2024 concern of Hadassah Journal accommodates an article with the title “Ignored Till it was Too Late.” It covers how “repeated warnings [from female observer soldiers] a few potential Hamas infiltration” [prior to October 7] had been “ignored?”

Readers of the New York Instances article are knowledgeable that “For years, the Qatari authorities had been sending hundreds of thousands of {dollars} a month into the Gaza Strip—cash that helped prop up the Hamas authorities there.” Moreover, and of significance, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not solely tolerated these funds, he had inspired them.” (emphasis added) These funds got here to “billions of {dollars} over roughly a decade.” Moreover, the funds, “ostensibly a secret” had been “extensively recognized and mentioned within the information media for years.”

With out this assist, might Hamas have carried out the actions it undertook on October 7, 2023? Based on the article, Netanyahu referred to as any suggestion that he sought to empower Hamas “ridiculous.”

A lot of what’s coated within the story signifies in any other case.(1)

The article describes a visit to Qatar, simply weeks earlier than October 7, undertaken by the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence company) chief, David Barnea, during which he was requested if Israel needed the funds to Hamas to proceed. Barnea is paraphrased answering “sure. The Israeli authorities nonetheless welcomed the cash from Doha, [Qatar’s capital].”

The subheading of the New York Instances article is “Prime Miniter Netanyahu gambled {that a} robust Hamas (however not too robust) would maintain the peace and scale back strain for a Palestinian state.” Nonetheless, based on the report, “Even because the Israeli navy obtained battle plans for a Hamas invasion and analysts noticed important terrorism workout routines simply over the border in Gaza, the funds continued.” (emphasis added)

The Qatar funds supposedly had “humanitarian objectives…However Israeli intelligence officers now imagine that the cash had a job within the success of the Oct. 7 assaults” since they allowed for funds to be diverted “in the direction of navy operations.” And the Netanyahu authorities didn’t know this to be the case? Is sizzling sauce sizzling?

A motivation for permitting this assist of Hamas is supplied:

“Way back to December 2012, Mr. Netanyahu informed the outstanding Israeli journalist Dan Margalit that it was essential to maintain Hamas robust, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority within the West Financial institution. Mr. Margalit, in an interview, mentioned that Mr. Netanyahu informed him that having two robust rivals, together with Hamas, would reduce strain on him to barter towards a Palestinian state.”

The reporters proceed, “The official within the prime minister’s workplace mentioned Mr. Netanyahu by no means made this assertion. However the prime minister would articulate this concept to others over time.”

Actually, based on the article, in 2017, “Netanyahu even lobbied Washington on Qatar’s behalf…as Republicans pushed to impose monetary sanctions on Qatar over its assist for Hamas.”

This lobbying effort occurred regardless of Netanyahu’s protection minister in 2016, Avigdor Lieberman, writing a “secret memo” to Netanyahu stating that, within the phrases of the New York Instances reporters, “Hamas was slowly constructing its navy talents to assault Israel.”

The Israeli authorities’s assist for Hamas clearly represents a typical imperialist divide and conqueror technique. On this case, assist one’s enemy, even one you view as calling to your elimination, to cut back the ability of one other enemy.

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The Israeli authorities’s assist of Hamas has been reported elsewhere. The Instances of Israel,  nicely earlier than the New York Instances article, on October 8, 2023, simply after the Hamas assault, had a narrative with the headline  “For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces.”  Netanyahu’s “coverage” handled “the phobia group as a companion.” Why? From the article: “The thought was to forestall [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas…from advancing towards the institution of a Palestinian state.” In consequence, “Hamas turned stronger.”

Israeli Authorities Advance Information of The October 7 Assault

One of many key questions surrounding the Hamas assault on October 7 is whether or not the Israeli authorities knew about it upfront, and didn’t act to forestall it. The New York Instances article asserts that Israeli leaders and “intelligence officers” assessed that Hamas “was neither concerned with nor able to a large-scale-attack” that this paper of file attributes to “intelligence failures and different defective assumptions.” Nonetheless, once more, in the identical New York Instances report, the Israeli navy had “obtained battle plans for a Hamas invasion and analysts noticed important terrorism workout routines simply over the border in Gaza.”

Particulars about that advance data are supplied within the Hadassah Journal article. It profiles younger girls who had been a part of the Israel Protection Forces Fight Intelligence Corps working as observers who had been “monitoring Israel’s border with Gaza” at a base positioned lower than a mile from the border with Gaza.

They had been skilled in firearms utilization. Nonetheless, they had been unarmed as a result of previously, some observers had dedicated suicide.

On October 7, many on the bottom had been killed, together with 15 unarmed feminine discipline observers. Seven had been taken as captives.

Earlier than October 7, the observers

“had knowledgeable their superiors repeatedly that Hamas gave the impression to be planning an assault that might probably contain breaking by means of the border fence…As early as Might 2023…they witnessed a part of a large-scale, all-day Hamas drill that probably served as preparation for the October 7 assault.”

One of many observers noticed, as paraphrased by the reporter, “many Palestinians…method the border fence with maps, analyzing the realm and digging holes” solely to be “informed by her superiors they had been farmers and to not fear.”

Within the months earlier than the assault, one other observer described how the coaching went from as soon as per week to nearly nonstop and that it, as paraphrased, “included driving tanks and even crossing the border into Israel.”

When an Israeli Protection Forces (IDF) spokesperson was requested in regards to the “observers’ warnings” not being “heeded,” this particular person replied, “Questions of this type can be regarded into at a later stage.”

Causes supplied within the article as to why the observers’ warnings had been ignored embody gender bias (sexism) within the Israel navy and their low rank.(2) Within the phrases of 1 observer:

“We had been 18- and 19-year-old ladies.  Despite the fact that we knew the entire space completely and will inform you about it in our sleep, we weren’t thought-about excessive sufficient ranked, so they didn’t pay attention. They favored to belittle us. It didn’t shock me.”

May there be different causes not mentioned within the article? May there have been a need for a Hamas assault for use as an excuse for finishing up the next destruction and mass murders to allow Israel to totally take over what stays of Palestinian territory within the Gaza Strip and West Financial institution? Is the struggle an try to finish the desires of a higher Israel (that features Southern Lebanon) held by a few of the founders of Israel?(3)

Notes.

1.) A November 21, 2023 Politico article quotes former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saying “Within the final 15 years, Israel did the whole lot to downgrade the Palestinian Authority and to spice up Hamas. Gaza was on the point of collapse as a result of they’d no assets, they’d no cash, and the PA refused to present Hamas any cash. Bibi [Netanyahu] saved them. Bibi made a cope with Qatar and so they began to maneuver hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to Gaza.”

One other Politico article factors out: “Most incriminatingly, Netanyahu himself mentioned in 2019 at a Likud get together convention: “Anybody who needs to forestall the institution of a Palestinian state must assist strengthening Hamas.””

2.) From the Haddasah article: Girls within the IDF “represent 45 % of junior officer positions” that shrinks to about “20 % on the lieutenant degree” and declines additional amongst senior officers.In different phrases, on the whole, girls will not be handled as equals inside the IDF. Nonetheless, after October 7, “there was a major enhance in girls enlisting in fight items.” On the identical time, the observers “nonetheless haven’t any weapons and the hierarchy within the military has not modified.”

3.) Ben-Gurion is described in Wikipedia as “the first nationwide founderof the State of Israelas nicely as its first prime minister.” In “The Delivery of Israel,” Pantheon Books, 1987, writer Simha Flapan, who was a dedicated socialist Zionist (pg. 10), wrote on pg. 31 “Ben-Gurion had all the time considered partition as step one towards a Jewish state in the entire of Palestine, together with Transjordan, the Golan Heights, and southern Lebanon.”