In Jamie Glazov’s most recent book, Barack Obama: The Real Legacy: How He Transformed America, Daniel Greenfield makes a significant contribution. Experts rushed to explain why it had adopted” ISIS tactics” after the atrocities committed by the Hamas. Some believed that the attacks were only intended to obstruct Israel’s negotiations with Saudi Arabia. Others claimed that Hamas attempted a modest assault that grew worse when Israel didn’t act quickly. Some people seem perplexed as to what Hamas might have hoped to gain from such an assault. As usual, the experts are mistaken because they don’t comprehend Hamas. And because they don’t understand Islam, their ignorance prevents them from understanding Muslim terrorism. Like the PLO and other Islamist terrorist organizations, Hamas had spent a large portion of its existence promising to invade Israel, seize and occupy its territory, and take Jewish villages and towns in stages over the years before one day besieging Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority, which is supported by British taxpayers, continues to play off of Arafat’s earlier speeches, in which he urges” millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem.” Israelis and Americans disregarded like rhetoric as being serious. When Hamas tried to carry it out, the cost was over 1, 200 lives. In terms of operations, Hamas changed from being a criminal group to being more like ISIS or Hezbollah. Israel had grown accustomed to anticipating minor hit and run raids. It didn’t anticipate a real invasion. With this some Jihadists, a hit-and-run raid makes no sense. This raid wasn’t a hit-and-run operation. According to Jewish defense leaders, Hamas arrived to occupy and seize control of the Jewish communities it had invaded rather than merely launch an attack. To hold, fortify, and annex those areas, it brought large firepower and some of its best-trained Jihadists. The majority of what the world saw was the second phase of a three-stage plan. Hamas civilians, particularly women and children, would have been brought in to occupy the captured communities in the second stage, while the Jihadists of the next stage would be able to secure the communities they had captured. When operating from behind its own animal shields, the Israeli military would have had to decide between firing on enemy civilians crossing the border and attempting to fight Hamas. The villages that were taken would have been formally annexed. Israel would have to expel the Arab civilians who were currently residing inside them even if it had recaptured them. Israel may have been prevented from taking such a step by animal rights organizations and international pressure. Luckily, Hamas never made it to the plan’s second stage. Before the invaders could fortify themselves and finish the next stage, Israel was allowed to destroy them. However, there is every reason to believe that Muslim jihadists like Hamas will attempt it once more. When viewed in the context of Israel’s history and the strategies used by Islamist organizations like ISIS, the Taliban, Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Mali, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Houthis in Yemen, to name a few, it was obvious that the Hamas attacks would occur. The second stage of Muslim warfare is not terrorism. Islamists switch to guerrilla warfare once they have the numbers and the power, seizing and holding territory from which they then expand upwards while killing and driving away non-Muslims and affiliated Muslims. The Hamas attacks employed the similar tactic. Perhaps the most heinous acts of cruelty, such as rapes, executions by beheading, torture, and the deaths of children, are included in the normal Islamic playbook. Atrocities are used to expel non-Muslim populations in order to bring in Arab populations to replace them, in addition to satisfying their followers and luring new recruits. Terror was also employed to wipe out Hindus from Kashmir. A Buddhist teacher was raped and sawed in half while she was still alive, among other Islamist crimes. Related strategies were used by ISIS and the Islamic Jihadis operating in Africa. Rape and the killing of children are used to incite non-Muslims to flee the area and allow Muslims to colonize and occupy it. Before the State of Israel was reborn, Muslims had employed the exact strategies against Jews. Muslims tortured, killed, and mutilated women and children during the Hebron Massacre in 1929 to exterminate the Jewish community in the storied city. Similar to those used by Hamas, Sunni forces attempted to overrun Israeli communities and butcher their residents during Israel’s War of Independence. The standard” kibbutz” back then was strongly fortified, and its residents were able to hold out even against larger populations. While some of the” kibbutzim” that Hamash was after managed to hold out this time, others were unprepared for such an assault. Once the Hamas terrorists were able to get past their security barriers, their meager security forces were overpowered by better manpower. Painfully, what would hardly have worked against a kibbutz in 1948 has done so well in 2023. Israel experienced a theoretical failure in addition to an intelligence failure. Hamas sees itself as a replacement for the Arab Sunni forces that used the same strategies to attack Jews in the 20s and 30s, never to mention the 40s. The Izz ad-din al-Qassam Brigades are the name of the jihadist organization’s cleric who attempted to carry out his holy wars in Syria and Libya before traveling to Israel and targeting Jewish communities there with his” Black Hand.” Even though it is impossible to predict terrorist behavior without knowing what they believe, Israel, like America, treated terrorists’ actions as important but their intellectual worldview as irrelevant. To avoid dealing with the Muslim beliefs that drive the Jihadists to act as they do, this schizophrenic approach to terrorism is required. Government officials all over the world are deceiving themselves every time they assert that terrorists have nothing to do with Islam. It is impossible for countries to accurately predict future Islamic attacks due to the false beliefs that there are” moderate” and” extremist” Islamic terrorists or that the various terrorist groups are simply reacting to something we did rather than advancing their beliefs. Modern counterterrorism is reactive; it focuses on what the terrorists are doing right now and learns how to stop them, but it lacks the ability to predict when they will change their strategy, as Al Qaeda did when it changed from strategically planned long-range attacks to” lone wolf” attacks locally. Just by comprehending the motivation behind Islamic warfare can these transformations be foreseen. The Jihad is a colonial settler project to impose Muslim law throughout the world. Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a senior Hamas official, stated last year that” the entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under[ a system ] where there is no injustice, oppression, treachery, Zionism, or treacherous Christianity.” Israel’s capture is merely the first step toward capturing the entire 510 million km. Because Jihadists project their personal tendency toward needless political complexity onto them more than understanding how they think, experts are unable to comprehend Islamic terrorism. They overthink everything and believe that Muslim terrorists want us to” react to them” because they are unwilling to acknowledge that the only way to deal with brutal armed force is with brute force. When it comes to negotiations, Islamist terrorists cannot be trusted, but when they state what their best objectives are, we should take them at their word. Hamas has been outlining its objectives to us all together. It suggested a” March of Return” over the past five years, urged Gazans to breach the border fence, and made promises to conquer Israel and seize Jerusalem. This nightmare resulted from not believing what Hamas said about its intentions. Israel’s military and political leadership needs to fundamentally change the way it thinks. Half of Hamas’ invasion was successful. Therefore, if Gaza is left under its control, it will do so once more. The success it attained will inspire a wave of money and recruits. Hamas has now partially surpassed ISIS as the world’s top jihadist organization thanks to the propaganda images. Hamas has often been clear about its goals. In order to attack, invade, and destroy Israel, it aims to mobilize the entire Muslim Arab population of Israel as well as the surrounding nations. It started a second major invasion to depopulate and then take control of Jewish communities near the Gaza border after years of shelling. Currently, some Israeli communities have been depopulated. Some locals will rebuild, while others will depart. For departures are being celebrated by Hamas as proof of its plan to expel all of Israel’s Jews with sufficient terror. Muslims will then take control. Hamas leaders bet that they would be able to flee any Jewish retaliation by hiding behind civilians. Biden will threaten to halt support once ample bombs have been dropped on abandoned structures and Israel is accused by the media of destroying Gaza and killing civilians. Unless a united Israel is ready to defy the Biden administration and complete the job, past Jewish retaliations have persistently turned out this way, and this one may too. Then, Israel should expect that Hamas will rebuild stronger and bigger than ever with more resources and a influx of fresh recruits driven by concrete proof of the horrors they are capable of. Once family members put enough pressure on the government, the hostages will be exchanged for terrorists. Hamas will then start making plans for a new invasion. This one might be successful. Because they don’t understand Islam, the experts will continue to get it wrong. Additionally, predicting an enemy’s actions is extremely challenging without understanding their worldview and beliefs. Failures of intelligence are rooted in a superficial view of the adversary. Because Israel’s intelligence chief believed that the timing made no military sense, it came dangerously close to being destroyed during the surprise Yom Kippur War fifty years before. And he was accurate. However, the Ancient invaders gave the holiest day of the Jewish calendar priority when they attacked. Although the Yom Kippur War timetable may not have made sense from a liberal standpoint, it did make sense to those who recognize that Islam’s supremacy over all other religions is the goal of Muslim warfare. a command represented by the Islamic cries of” Allahu Akbar.” Experts are baffled by the Hamas invasion from a liberal corporate standpoint, but because it was planned for the day of Simchat Torah, the joyful conclusion of the Jewish High Holy Days, it makes great sense. It wasn’t a criminal attack; rather, it was an invasion intended to carry out Hamas’ overall mission of reconquering Israel, driving the Jews out, colonizing their towns and cities, killing the majority of them, and capturing others as slaves. and of all Muslim terrorist organizations active within Israel. The following time, Hamas will attempt to fortify, occupy, and annex Israeli communities in order to reach its second stage. The enemy will then cease to be” out there” and instead start its conquest of Israel in an effort to join forces with Arab Muslim towns and villages for Jihad’s final campaign. Israel will be fighting Hamas inside the Israeli State unless it defeats him right away.
[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America. ]After the Hamas atrocities, experts scurried to explain why it had embraced “ISIS tactics”. Many saw the attacks purely as a way of sabotaging Israel’s talks with Saudi Arabia. Others argued that Hamas had tried for a small attack that escalated when Israel failed to promptly respond. Some express bafflement at what Hamas could have hoped to gain from such an attack.The experts as usual are wrong because they don’t understand Hamas. And their ignorance stems from their inability to grasp Islamic terrorism because they don’t understand Islam.Hamas, like the PLO and other Islamic terrorist groups, had spent much of its existence promising to do exactly what it tried to do, invade Israel, and seize and occupy its territory, taking Jewish villages and towns by stages over the years until one day besieging Jerusalem.The Palestinian Authority, funded by American taxpayers, still airs Arafat’s old speeches in which he calls for “millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem”. Americans and Israelis refused to take such rhetoric seriously. The cost was over 1,200 lives when Hamas tried to carry it out.In operational terms, Hamas transitioned from a terrorist organization to a guerrilla force like ISIS or Hezbollah. Israel had been conditioned to expect small hit and run raids. It was not expecting an actual invasion. A hit and run raid with this many Jihadists makes no sense.This wasn’t a hit and run raid.Israeli military leaders are now saying that Hamas had not come just to attack, but to occupy and take over the Jewish communities that it invaded. It brought heavy firepower and some of its best trained Jihadists to not just attack, but to hold, fortify and annex those areas.What the world witnessed was mostly the first stage of a three stage plan. In the second stage, Hamas Jihadists would have secured the captured communities while in the third stage, Hamas civilians, especially women and children, would have been brought in to occupy them. The Israeli military would have had to choose between firing on enemy civilians crossing the border or trying to fight Hamas once it was operating from behind its own human shields.The captured villages would have been functionally annexed. Even if Israel had recaptured them, it would then have to expel the Muslim civilians now living inside them. Human rights groups and international pressure might have prevented Israel from taking such a step.Fortunately Hamas never reached the third stage of its plan. Israel managed to destroy the invaders before they were able to fortify themselves and complete the second stage.But there is every reason to think that Hamas or other Islamic jihadists will try it again.The Hamas attacks were predictable when viewed in the context of Israel’s history and of the tactics of Islamic groups like ISIS, the Taliban, Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Qaeda and ISIS affiliates in Mali, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen, to name just a few.Terrorism is only the first stage of Islamic warfare. Once they have the numbers and the firepower, Islamists transition to guerrilla warfare, seizing and holding territory that they then expand outward from, killing and driving away non-Muslims and unaffiliated Muslims.The Hamas attacks followed that same strategy. Even the vicious cruelty, the rapes, the beheadings, the torture and the dead children, are part of the standard Islamic playbook. Beyond gratifying their followers and gaining new recruits, atrocities are used to drive away the non-Muslim populations so that Muslim populations can be brought in to replace them. .Terror was used to depopulate Kashmir of Hindus. The Islamic crimes included raping and sawing a Hindu teacher in half while she was still alive. ISIS employed similar tactics as do the Islamic Jihadis operating in Africa. Rape and the murder of children are used to panic non-Muslims into fleeing and leaving the area to be colonized and occupied by Muslims.Muslims had used these same tactics against Jews before the State of Israel was reborn. During the Hebron Massacre in 1929, Muslims tortured, killed and mutilated women and children to destroy the Jewish community in the historic city. During Israel’s War of Independence, Muslim forces, similar to those deployed by Hamas, tried to overrun Jewish communities and butcher their inhabitants. The difference is that the typical ‘kibbutz’ back then was heavily fortified and its residents were able to hold out even against superior numbers.While some of the ‘kibbutzim’ targeted by Hamash held out this time around, others were unprepared for an attack of this kind. Their limited security forces were overwhelmed by superior manpower once the Hamas terrorists were able to get past their security barriers. What would not have worked against a kibbutz in 1948 has succeeded tragically well in 2023.What went wrong in Israel was not just an intelligence failure, but a conceptual failure.Hamas views itself as a successor to the Arab Muslim forces that had attacked Jews in the 20’s and 30s, not to mention the 40s, using these same tactics. Its jihadist force is known as the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades after a Muslim cleric who had tried to conduct his holy wars in Syria and Libya, before coming to Israel where his ‘Black Hand’ targeted Jewish communities.Israel, like America, treated the actions of terrorists as relevant, but their ideological worldview as irrelevant, even though the only way to predict their actions is by understanding what they believe. This schizophrenic approach to terrorism is necessary to avoid dealing with the Islamic beliefs that motivate the Jihadists to do what they do. Every time government officials around the world claim that the terrorists have nothing to do with Islam, they are blinding themselves.The false notions that there are “moderate” and “extremist” Islamic terrorists or that the various terrorist groups are just reacting to something we did, rather than advancing their beliefs, has made it impossible for nations to accurately predict future Islamic attacks.Modern counterterrorism is reactive, training on what the terrorists are doing now, and learning to prevent it, with no ability to anticipate when the terrorists change their tactics, as Al Qaeda did when it switched from centrally planned long-range attacks to ‘lone wolf’ attacks locally. These transformations can only be anticipated by understanding the purpose of Islamic warfare.The Jihad is a colonial settler project to subjugate the world under Islamic law. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar said last year that “we are not talking about liberating our land alone… the entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under [a system] where there is no injustice, no oppression, no treachery, no Zionism, no treacherous Christianity.” Seizing Israel is just another stage toward seizing all 510 million kilometers.Experts fail to comprehend Islamic terrorism because rather than understanding how Jihadists think, they project their own tendency toward unnecessary geopolitical complexity onto them. Unable to admit that the only way to meet ruthless armed force is with ruthless armed force, they overthink everything and assume that Islamic terrorists want us to ‘react to them’.Islamic terrorists cannot be trusted when it comes to negotiations, but they should be taken at their word when they describe what their ultimate goals are. Hamas has been telling us all along what its goals are. Over the last 5 years, it proposed a ‘March of Return’, urged Gazans to cut through the border fence and promised that they would conquer Israel and seize Jerusalem.The failure to take Hamas at its word about its intentions is what led to this nightmare.Israel’s political and military leadership needs to fundamentally reorient its thinking. Hamas partially succeeded in its invasion. That means that if left to control Gaza, it will do it again. The success it achieved will spur a wave of recruits and money. Already the propaganda images have allowed Hamas to temporarily eclipse ISIS as the leading jihadist organization in the world.Hamas has always made its intentions clear. It is out to mobilize all of Israel’s Arab Muslim population and those of the surrounding countries to provide it with money and manpower to attack, invade and destroy Israel. After long years of shelling, it launched a first major invasion to depopulate and then seize Jewish communities within range of the Gaza border.Some Jewish communities have now been depopulated. While some residents will rebuild, others will leave. Hamas is celebrating such departures as a validation of its strategy that with enough terror all the Jews of Israel will leave the land. And the Muslims will take over.Hamas leaders gambled that hiding behind civilians would allow them to survive any Israeli retaliation. After enough bombs have been dropped on empty buildings and the media accuses Israel of devastating Gaza and killing civilians, Biden will threaten to cut off support. Previous Israeli retaliations have consistently played out this way and this one may too unless a united Israel is willing to defy the Biden administration and finish the job. Otherwise Israel should anticipate that Hamas will rebuild bigger and stronger than ever with more wealth and a flood of new recruits motivated by tangible evidence of what horrors they can accomplish. The hostages will be traded for terrorists once family members level enough pressure on the government. And Hamas will resume planning for another invasion. And this one may succeed.The experts will go on getting it wrong because they don’t understand Islam. And without understanding an enemy’s worldview and beliefs, predicting their actions is very difficult.Intelligence failures are rooted in a materialistic reading of the enemy. Israel was nearly destroyed 50 years ago during the surprise attack of the Yom Kippur War because its intelligence head was convinced that the timing made no tactical sense. And he was right. But the Egyptian invaders prioritized attacking on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.The Yom Kippur War timetable may have made no secular strategic sense, but it made sense to those who understand that the purpose of Islamic warfare is to assert the supremacy of Islam over all other religions. A mandate embodied by the Islamic cry of, “Allahu Akbar”.From a secular strategic perspective, the Hamas invasion baffles experts, but scheduled on the day of Simchat Torah, the joyous conclusion of the Jewish High Holy Days, it makes perfect sense. It was not a terrorist attack, but an invasion meant to fulfill the Islamic mission of reconquering Israel, driving out the Jews and colonizing their towns and cities, killing most, taking captives for ransom, and others as slaves, which is the entire purpose of Hamas.And of every Islamic terrorist group operating in and around Israel.The next time, Hamas will try to reach its third stage, to fortify, occupy and annex communities within Israel. And then the enemy will no longer be ‘out there’, but beginning its conquest of Israel, seeking to link up with Arab Muslim towns and villages for the final campaign of Jihad.Unless Israel finishes Hamas now, it will be fighting Hamas deep inside the Jewish State.
