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Hamas Sees Oct. 7 Attack as Part of a Religious War Against the Jews
(Israel Hayom) Itay Ilnai - Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, Chair for Geostrategy at the University of Haifa and head of the Middle Eastern Studies program at Yezreel Valley College, said that the Oct. 7 attack followed "an orderly work plan, the result of Hamas' poison machine, which built this event over a long time. This was accompanied by a long mental preparation, which allowed people to commit the atrocities they committed." "The younger generation in Gaza has grown up all their lives under a regime that promotes ideas that present the Jew in a dehumanized way, as an inferior creature....In Hamas, they learned religious rulings that allow them to harm any Jew, since even a child and an elderly person were or will be soldiers. Hamas commanders gave orders on Oct. 7, while quoting verses from the Quran and highlighting cases from Islamic history where famous commanders beheaded and dismembered during battle." "When you talk about killing and abusing Jews as a commandment that promises you reward in the afterlife, it has a significant impact. Even an ordinary Gazan citizen who enters Israel doesn't feel that he's acting for something material, but performing these actions - murder, rape, looting - for the sake of a religious war. It's no coincidence that in the terrorists' GoPro videos, you can see them singing songs of praise and glory to the Prophet Muhammad and Allah, and not talking about liberating Palestine. The idea of a religious struggle is what accompanies them, not the idea of national liberation."