It is now nearly two years since Hamas’s genocidal assault on southern Israel, and the revelations keep piling up. Each one is more damning than the last. The latest: a Mossad position paper, published a mere two weeks before the slaughter of Oct. 7, confidently declared that Hamas “was not interested in a military confrontation with Israel.”
Let that sink in. Just days before terrorists stormed across the border, burning, raping, and butchering, Israel’s premier intelligence service, and one of the most revered and feared spy agencies the world, publicly assured the country that Hamas had been deterred and was seeking “stability.”
The report, exposed by Israel’s Channel 12, painted Hamas as cautious and defensive. Its military wing, the Mossad paper suggested, was merely on alert for targeted assassinations, not planning an assault of historic proportions. “It is clear that the Hamas leadership in Gaza is not interested in a military confrontation with Israel at the present time,” it stated flatly.
How could such a conclusion have been drawn? Even then, Hamas was launching incendiary balloons into Israel. Gaza...
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