Hamas practiced in plain
sight, posting video of
mock attack weeks before
border breach
WHAT WERE YOU DOING NETANYAHU! HERE IT IS, THE HAMAS DRESS REHEARSAL FOR GENOCIDE IN A PHOTOGRAPH!
Less than a month before Hamas fighters blew through Israel’s high-tech “Iron Wall” and launched an attack that would leave more than 1,200 Israelis dead, they practiced in a very public dress rehearsal.
A slickly produced two-minute propaganda video posted to social media by Hamas on Sept. 12 shows fighters using explosives to blast through a replica of the border gate, sweep in on pickup trucks and then move building by building through a full-scale reconstruction of an Israeli town, firing automatic weapons at human-silhouetted paper targets.
What did you think this was Netanyahu, a set for a Hollywood action flick! WHAT WERE YOU DOING, NETANYAHUA?!
The Islamic militant group’s live-fire exercise dubbed operation “Strong Pillar” also had militants in body armor and combat fatigues carrying out operations that included the destruction of mock-ups of the wall’s concrete towers and a communications antenna, just as they would do for real in the deadly attack last Saturday.
While Israel’s highly regarded security and intelligence services were clearly caught flatfooted by Hamas’ ability to breach its Gaza defenses, the group appears to have hidden its extensive preparations for the deadly assault in plain sight.
NETANYAHU, RESIGN! YOU HAVE FAILED INCOMPREHENSIBLY IN YOUR ONLY TASK: TO PREVENT THE SLAUGHTER OF ISRAELI INNOCENTS!
“There clearly were warnings and indications that should have been picked up,” said Bradley Bowman, a former U.S. Army officer who is now senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington research institute. “Or maybe they were picked up, but they didn’t spark necessary preparations to prevent these horrific terrorist acts from happening.”
The Associated Press reviewed and verified key details from dozens of videos Hamas released over the last year, primarily through the social media app Telegram.
NETANYAHU'S INCOMPETENCE IS TREASONOUS AGAINST THE JEWISH STATE!
In a separate video posted to Telegram from last year’s Strong Pillar exercise on Dec. 28, Hamas fighters are shown storming what appears to be a mockup Israeli military base, complete with a full-size model of a tank with an Israeli flag flying from its turret. The gunmen move through the cinderblock buildings, seizing other men playing the roles of Israeli soldiers as hostages.
Michael Milshtein, a retired Israeli colonel who previously led the military intelligence department overseeing the Palestinian territories, said he was aware of the Hamas videos, but he was still caught off guard by the ambition and scale of Saturday’s attack.
“We knew about the drones, we knew about booby traps, we knew about cyberattacks and the marine forces … The surprise was the coordination between all those systems,” Milshtein said.
RESIGN MILSHTEIN! YOU FAILED CATASTROPHICALLY! HOW CAN YOU HAVE SEEN THE HAMAS VIDEOS AND BE "STILL CAUGHT OFF GUARD"?! YOU ARE INCOMPETENT, MILSHTEIN! YOU ALLOWED GENOCIDE AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO OCCUR WHEN YOU SAW THE PREPARATORY VIDEOS! DISGRACEFUL!
“In our neighborhood, we need to protect ourselves from wild beasts,” Netanyahu said in 2016, referring to Palestinians and neighboring Arab states. “At the end of the day as I see it, there will be a fence like this one surrounding Israel in its entirety.”
ARE YOU BORROWING FROM YOUR "OLD FRIEND" TRUMPIE, NETANYAHU! Build a "FENCE"--MORE LIKE A BEADED CURTAIN! WALLS DON'T WORK, KING OF THE JEWS! YOUR DERELICTION ALLOWED YOUR GENOCIDAL WAR ENEMIES, NOT TERRORISTS, WAR ENEMIES, TO RAPE JEWISH WOMEN TILL THEIR VAGINAS BLED, DECAPITATE AND BURN ALIVE JEWISH BABIES AND WOMEN! YOUR BEADED CURTAIN WAS EASILY PUSHED ASIDE TO ALLOW THE "WILD BEASTS" TO INFLICT THE WORST LOSS OF JEWISH LIFE SINCE THE THIRD REICH! RESIGN!
Snipers took out Israel’s sophisticated roboguns by targeting their exposed ammunition boxes, causing them to explode. Militants armed with assault rifles sailed over the Israeli defenses slung under paragliders, providing Hamas airborne troops despite lacking airplanes. Increasingly sophisticated homemade rockets, capable of striking Israel’s capital of Tel Aviv, substituted for a lack of heavy artillery.
IT ALL FAILED, NETANYAHU! YOU FAILED THE ONLY PLACE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE TO GO! HOW DARE YOU ASK THE UNITED STATES, A VIBRANT, STRONG STATE, TO SAVE YOU AND YOUR DECREPIT REGIME FROM GENOCIDE WHOSE PREPARATIONS WERE MADE "IN PLAIN SIGHT" OF YOU?! YOU WERE WARNED BY EGYPT AND DOWNPLAYED THE WARNINGS! IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE UNITED STATES TO SAVE A FAILED, HOLLOWED OUT, INCOMPETENT REGIME FROM DESTRUCTION AND TELEGRAPHED GENOCIDE.
Shortly after dawn on Saturday, Hamas fighters pushed through Netanyahu’s wall in a matter of minutes. And they did it on the relative cheap, using explosive charges to blow holes in the barrier and then sending in bulldozers to widen the breaches as fighters streamed through on motorcycles and in pick-up trucks. Cameras and communications gear were bombarded by off-the-shelf commercial drones adapted to drop hand grenades and mortar shells — a tactic borrowed directly from the battlefields of Ukraine.
Last weekend’s devastating surprise attack has shaken political support for Netanyahu within Israel, who pushed ahead with spending big to build walls despite some within his own cabinet and military warning that it probably wouldn’t work.
THIS IS TRUMP-LEVEL INCOMPETENCE, DERELICTION, CORRUPTION. THE NETANYAHU REGIME IS SOUTH VIETNAM CIRCA 1964. THERE IS NO SAVING SUCH A REGIME. THE ISRAELI PEOPLE SHOULD RISE UP AND OVERTHROW NETANYAHU--IF THEY HAVE THE COURAGE, IF THEY HAVE THE WILL. THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT PROP UP THIS REGIME!
In his push to build border walls, Netanyahu found an enthusiastic partner in then-President Donald Trump, who praised Netanyahu’s Iron Wall as a potential model for the expanded barrier he planned for the U.S. Southern border with Mexico.
IT WAS TRUMP! YOUR "OLD FRIEND", NETANYAHU!
But even with all its high-tech gadgets, the Iron Wall was still largely just a physical barrier that could be breached, said Victor Tricaud, a senior analyst with the London-based consulting firm Control Risks.
“The fence, no matter how many sensors ... no matter how deep the underground obstacles go, at the end of the day, it’s effectively a metal fence,” he said. “Explosives, bulldozers can eventually get through it. What was remarkable was Hamas’s capability to keep all the preparations under wraps.”
SHAME, NETANYAHU. SHAME EVERLASTING!
