How the Hamas Attack Took Israel by Surprise
Posted By: Judy W., 10/26/2023 7:41:29 AM
A week before its attack Hamas agreed to another truce with Israel. The agreement negotiated by Qatar, Egypt and the United Nations traded an end to border attacks for more imports, a bigger fishing zone and more work permits that allowed 20,000 Gaza Muslims to enter Israel. The agreement reached between Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and Sukkot, the conclusion of the High Holy Days season, offered an end to the explosives and rocks being hurled at Israeli soldiers on the border and the incendiary balloons starting fires on Israeli farms. And terrorist attacks on civilians like the murder of Batsheva Nigri: a kindergarten teacher shot
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Eternally optimistic, Israel keeps trying to make friends with terrorists. Those thousands of Gazans with work permits in Israel were just spies figuring out exactly where they would kill women and children. Hamas cares nothing about the money these workers were bringing into Gaza, or the benefits Gazans could have if Hamas made peace. All these monsters care about is wiping out Jews and the state of Israel. I'm sure Hamas is here in the U.S. and we'll see their work soon.