Did Hamas merely want to kick-start the statehood process with its barbaric rapes and murders on 1200-plus unarmed men, women, and children on October 7? Not according to a report from Haaretz last week. Hamas leaders had launched the attack expecting to trigger a calamitous and overwhelming conquest of Israel. In fact, they had such confidence in their war strategy that they had already divided Israel into cantons, assigned leadership to them, and made plans for its population under a new Islamist regime.
And those plans will sound very, very familiar to scholars of the last regime that set out to conquer the Jews.
Haaretz’ Shlomi Eldar got the story from the wealthy Gazans that managed to flee from the war Hamas started. Gazans call them “the new Jews” because of their wealth in the midst of their poverty, a rather telling anti-Semitic trope. These elites still make money off of…
