JERUSALEM, Israel — Amit Halevy, a senior member of Israel’s governing Likud Party, advised Breitbart News on Saturday evening that one of many causes Israel was unprepared for the Hamas terror assault Oct. 7 was as a result of the standard knowledge was that Hamas had grow to be a traditional governing celebration.
In actuality, he stated, the group — whose identify is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — had by no means modified its dedication to Islamic fundamentalism.
“For a few years, we didn’t take critically the non secular dimension of our enemy … We hear [about] materials concerns, possibly inside concerns of a battle between some teams inside Gaza or inside Lebanon — nonsense.
If you research the Hamas constitution, Halevy stated, the group’s targets are clear: it desires to remove Jews, not simply in Israel however worldwide. And it desires Islam to dominate the world.
“They say exactly what they mean, and they mean exactly what they say. So it’s about time that the Western world — because the West is next — that we will take very seriously those intensions.”
Halevy added: “Not only the West is next, but also MBS [Mohamed bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince] is next.”
He stated that the timing of the assault was motivated by MBS’s interview with Fox News final month, through which he stated that peace with Israel was within reach, and hinted {that a} Palestinian state wouldn’t be a mandatory situation.
Halevy argued that the excellence between Hamas and Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not all the time clear. There had been, he stated, civilians who had participated within the massacres of Israelis, crossing into Israel behind the Hamas terrorists. “In [Kibbutz] Be’eri there were [Palestinian] kids that burned our kids — six-year-old kids.”
He stated that Israel ought to contemplate bombing the underground services that Hamas maintained in Gaza, though it typically positioned them below hospitals, faculties, and mosques. International legislation, he stated, made “dual use” civilian services professional targets.
Halevy, who leads the international affairs and nationwide safety committees in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, acknowledged that there could be main political modifications in Israel because of the shock from the Oct. 7 assault. But it was too early for politics, he stated.
For now, the nation was centered on successful the battle. The solely debate was about learn how to do it. He praised the atypical residents who raced to the scene of the assault and prevented many 1000’s extra folks from being killed within the assault.
Tune in to SiriusXM Patriot 125 on Sunday, Oct. 22, from 7-10 p.m. ET, for an interview with Halevy on Breitbart News Sunday.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the creator of the brand new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He can also be the creator of the latest e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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