(Israel Hayom) Tomer Tzaban interviewed by Ran Puni - Tomer Tzaban is a former undercover officer who fought in the Shimshon unit in Gaza in the 1990s. He described how on one of his missions, "I saw the terrorists interrogating a collaborator, and in the end stabbing and killing him. What changed my understanding of them was what happened next: they mutilated him and they cut off his legs, hands, and genitals. They took a sadistic pleasure that I couldn't understand. This was the first time I realized that they were not like us in any way. I realized that we had failed to understand something very fundamental about them, so what we saw and heard on Oct. 7, unfortunately, didn't surprise me." "Many people are willing to ignore the truth; they fall for the illusion that there is a future for us with these people. We insist on finding something, which in my experience doesn't exist....There is a people here that wants to take our place. We have to understand that." "The most important thing is the images coming out of Gaza. The Middle East understands the language of power and the destruction in Gaza resonates in the Arab world. Even those countries that want to make peace with us - the Saudis, the Emiratis - want to know that they are forming a defense alliance with a strong country. So what happens in Gaza is clearly heard and seen in Lebanon." Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah "doesn't want Lebanon to be left in ruins, and that gives us leverage over him."
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