Hamas Leader Is Apparently Having Some Second Thoughts About Oct. 7
Guy Benson
6–8 minutes
One of the yet-unliquidated leaders of Hamas has been quoted in the New York Times questioning the wisdom of the terrorist group's massacre of 1,200 people on October 7, 2023. With the evil organization's leadership decimated, much of its rank and file membership dead, and huge swaths of Gaza reduced to rubble by Israel's counteroffensive, Mousa Abu Marzouk is having some second thoughts. He just didn't expect what would occur after his colleagues butchered, raped and kidnapped as many Jews as they could, in a shocking orgy of violence that left more Jewish people dead in any single day since the Holocaust. I'll have a few thoughts on the sentiments he expresses, but here are the quotes themselves:
https://twitter.com/ariel_oseran/status/1894060641805119556 Hamas has declared “victory” over Israel, and some of its officials have vowed that their fighters will carry out more Oct. 7-style attacks in the future. But now one of Hamas’s top officials is publicly expressing reservations about the assault, which also touched off a humanitarian crisis that displaced nearly two million and led to critical shortages of food and health care. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the Qatar-based head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said in an interview with The New York Times that he would not have supported the attack if he had known of the havoc it would wreak on Gaza. Knowing of the consequences, he said, would have made it “impossible” for him to back the assault...“If it was expected that what happened would happen, there wouldn’t have been Oct. 7,” as far as he was concerned, he said.A fragrant manifestation of the so-called 'FAFO' principle. Hamas 'F***ed around,' and they've been 'finding out' ever since. As several observers have pointed out, notice what this person does not say. He does not evince any regret over the wanton slaughter of children, the mass sexual assault of women, or any of the horrors Hamas inflicted that day. What's giving him second thoughts are the negative consequences for Hamas and Gaza, based on Israel's reprisals. My strong suspicion is that Hamas and their allies calculated that Israel would respond forcefully to the attack, but only relatively briefly, as international pressure mounted on them to relent. That morally-inverted international pressure did arrive rather quickly, of course, as expected. What Hamas may not have bargained for was Israel basically ignoring the bullying, including defying warnings from the Biden administration, and prosecuting an extended and aggressive war as its leadership saw fit. And with a new American administration coming into power during the war, and explicitly taking the leash off of Israel, the plan doesn't seem to have quite panned out as the terrorists anticipated.
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