US EditionHamas Wanted to Torpedo Israel-Saudi Deal With Oct. 7 Attacks, Documents Reveal: WSJ
- Hamas orchestrated the October 7, 2023 assault from Gaza with the intent to obstruct the Israel-Saudi normalization talks that were close to reaching an agreement.
- The attack was planned for two years amid concern that the U.S.-mediated deal would marginalize the Palestinian cause.
- Documents uncovered by Israeli forces showed Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, viewing normalization as an existential threat and calling for increased attacks to oppose it.
- The attack resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,200 Israelis and triggered a large-scale Israeli military operation that brought any advancement on the Israel-Saudi normalization process to a standstill.
- This conflict has reshaped regional dynamics, complicating Palestinian statehood prospects and altering Saudi diplomatic calculations regarding normalization.
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Editorial: Hamas strategy has been a deadly miscalculation
Israel has stepped up its ground campaign in Gaza in an effort to free remaining hostages and to pressure Hamas terrorists to end the futile war they started. And as the conflict drags on, it has become apparent that the Hamas strategy of embracing death and destruction over peace and compromise has been a massive failure. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that documents recovered by the Israeli military reveal that Hamas leaders initia…
Let Israel finish the job
The Israeli military discovered the recorded minutes of a high-level Hamas meeting, the Wall Street Journal reported, revealing the true motive for the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. According to the document, Hamas leaders ordered the attacks in southern Israel and killed over 1,200 civilians to torpedo peace negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. This confirmed what most analyses have suspected. Hamas’s Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, told fellow…
Public-law journalism is financed by the general public. Nevertheless, there are always strange contributions about the Jewish state. A former moderator even justified Hamas' terror. That is certainly not in the sense of the contributors.
Hamas has carried out the massive terrorist attack on Israel primarily to sabotage the rapprochement between Tel Aviv and Riyadh. Saudis should be attacked against Israel, because a bloody retaliation action was certain. A propaganda coup, which many European media have also swallowed up, and since then has been in a victim-perpetrator turnaround. The Wall Street Journal has published internal documents from the Palestinian terrorist organizatio…
Revealed: Why Hamas actually launched Oct 7 raids on Israel in 2023, the real target was a peace pact
Documents recovered by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip have reportedly revealed that the purpose of the Hamas-led October 7 attack was to derail the normalisation of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Hamas leaders wanted to derail peace agreement negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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