The New York Times: Behind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit To Create A ‘Permanent’ State Of War
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Ben Hubbard
Maria Abi-Habib

By Ben Hubbard and Maria Abi-Habib

  • Nov. 8, 2023

Hamas leaders say they waged their Oct. 7 attack on Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was slipping away, and that only violence could revive it.

“Thousands have been killed in Gaza, with entire families wiped out. Israeli airstrikes have reduced Palestinian neighborhoods to expanses of rubble, while doctors treat screaming children in darkened hospitals with no anesthesia. Across the Middle East, fear has spread over the possible outbreak of a broader regional war.

But in the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’s leaders, the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a big miscalculation. Quite the opposite, they say: It is the necessary cost of a great accomplishment — the shattering of the status quo and the opening of a new, more volatile chapter in their fight against Israel.

It was necessary to “change the entire equation and not just have a clash,” Khalil al-Hayya, a member of Hamas’s top leadership body, told The New York Times in Doha, Qatar. “We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm.”

Israeli soldiers inspecting the bodies of people killed in the village of Kfar Azza, Israel.
Israeli soldiers inspecting the bodies of people killed in the village of Kfar Azza, Israel.Credit…Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

Since the shocking Hamas attack on Oct. 7, in which Israel says about 1,400 people were killed and more than 240 others dragged back to Gaza as captives, the group’s leaders have praised the operation, with some hoping it will set off a sustained conflict that ends any pretense of coexistence among Israel, Gaza and the countries around them.

“I hope that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all the borders, and that the Arab world will stand with us,” Taher El-Nounou, a Hamas media adviser, told The Times.”

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