As the Middle East burns and the massacre of civilians in Gaza continues, a series of unanswered questions have emerged. Let’s remember the facts.
From 2012 to 2023, Netanyahu authorized Qatar to transfer a total of more than $1 billion to Hamas, according to The New York Times report published on December 10, 2023. The method: Qatari envoys arrived with suitcases loaded with dollars to Israel and Mossad escorted them into Gaza, where they handed them over to Hamas. The interpretation of the Israeli press is that Netanyahu thus strengthened Hamas against the Palestinian Authority and reduced international pressure for the creation of a Palestinian State. Although he later denied it, that was what Netanyahu told the prestigious Israeli journalist Dan Margalit in December 2012.
Another fact. Israel maintains that Hamas’ barbaric attack on civilians caught them by surprise. Hard to believe because Gaza was full of spies who could not have failed to notice preparations of such magnitude. But there is more. The CIA warned of the attack on Israel shortly before. The Israeli version is that they did not believe it because they did not consider that Hamas was capable of such an operation. They didn’t even prepare for the contingency of it happening. We are talking about the almighty Mossad, considered the most efficient intelligence agency in the world.
An additional fact. In the midst of the Gaza war, with the potential danger of Hizbullah and with the majority of world public opinion, including in the United States, against Israel, Netanyahu decides to attack the Iranian consulate in Damascus and assassinate three Guardian generals. of the Revolution, among others. According to international observers, it was a provocation that Iran could not leave unanswered. Therefore, the US chief of staff immediately traveled to Tel Aviv to coordinate the prevention of Iran’s retaliatory attack. Which meant that the US and its allies, including the United Kingdom and Jordan, were able to neutralize numerous Iranian drones and missiles before they hit Israel, where the Iron Dome did the rest.
Of course, such effectiveness was possible because Iran, not eager for an all-out war, assured the US that it would limit itself to a warning. With time for the Americans to deploy their fighters. Still, Netanyahu planned a response that possibly included bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran’s response would be war. Biden stopped it. Because that war, which would trigger inflation, before the elections, is not convenient for him. In exchange he allowed him to occupy Rafah, seeking to induce a Palestinian exodus.
How to explain the concatenation of these events? A hypothesis consistent with what we know would be that the Israeli Government, the most extremist in its history, wanted to ensure the unanimous support of its population and attack all its enemies, counting on the United States, in a generalized war to establish total control. Postponed but still projected.