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When You Fight Yourself

I asked an Israeli friend this week if in fact Israel had killed the rest of the Hamas senior leadership in Doha. Initial reports were that seven were eliminated, including Khaled Mashaal.

My friend usually knows what’s going on. Were they killed?

“We’ll see.”

Okay. Evidently, the hit on the Hamas ghouls was not entirely successful. Or was it?

Such is the state of spycraft these days, in an age of instant information. We see things happen in real time, and hours later, question what we saw. Are the assassins operating now in America homegrown, lone losers? Or part of a terror cell team?

Who knows?

If Israel did in fact avenge Israeli deaths from Oct. 7 by killing Hamas demons (who have been living in luxury in Qatar for years) then we are closer to victory in Gaza. If not, it simply delays the inevitable.

But a disturbing report emerged late this week in which the Mossad chief apparently over-rode Benjamin Netanyahu’s order of the operation in Doha. So rather than have operatives on the ground, to ensure success, Israel instead went in with an airstrike.

From The Jerusalem Post:

“The Mossad reportedly scrapped a plan it drew up in recent weeks to assassinate senior Hamas officials on Qatari soil using agents within the country, two Israelis familiar with the decision-making told The Washington Post in a Friday report.

“The two Israelis, who spoke to the US source on condition of anonymity, said that the intelligence agency’s director, David Barnea, opposed the plan due to concerns about the future of the relationship the Mossad had built with the Qataris, noting that Doha was mediating hostage deal agreements between Israel and the terrorist organization.

“One of the Israelis told the US source that, ‘this time, Mossad was unwilling to do it on the ground,’ with the report referencing the assassination that killed then-Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh when a bomb was planted in his room in Iran. The other anonymous Israeli said, ‘We can get them in one, two, or four years from now, and the Mossad knows how to do it.’”

It doesn’t matter, but I don’t agree with the spy agency cancelling the operational plan. And there is a further oddity:

“The exclusive Washington Post report comes a day after a former senior official from the Israeli intelligence agency told 103FM radio station on Thursday that its indirect contact with Qatar may have caused some of its officials to object to Israel’s Tuesday airstrikes in Doha.”

Washington Post exclusive?

Former senior official?

 103FM radio?

This sounds like some weird Cohen Brothers film, a dark comedy. Why in the world would operational plans and discussions and strategy be discussed in public? What’s going on here?

We know that in the strike on Iran this summer, the Americans coordinated with Israel, even to the point of luring Iran into a false sense of relative safety, before lowering the boom.

So what is really going on now in the hunt for Hamas leaders? Is Israel really airing its dirty laundry in pubic, infighting about decisions to kill or pull back? Are Trump and Bibi coordinating? It seems Trump almost apologized to Qatar for the Israeli strikes, vowing it wouldn’t happen again. On the face of it, all this seems odd. Even bizarre. Are we fighting against ourselves? Are we fighting to win? All this seems reminiscent of the morally weak Bill Clinton not taking the shot against Osama bin Laden long before 9/11.

One hopes this is another Trump-Netanyahu feint.

We shall see.

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The Final Assault

If we can believe reports, Israel is finishing-off the last Hamas strongholds in Gaza. They’ve told Hamas to either surrender or be destroyed. I think we have to pray very hard for a miracle regarding the hostages. The Hamas ghouls will kill them when the IDF gets close. Yet nothing is too difficult for God.

A report from the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center gives some interesting detail into Israel’s final stages for this war forced on it two years ago.

“IDF forces continued aerial and ground attacks on terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, primarily of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), focusing on the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, Jabaliya in the north of the Strip and the outskirts of Gaza City, part of preparations for the takeover of the city. The forces attacked terrorist squads and eliminated terrorist operatives, including Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Hamas military wing, and the head of ISIS’s ‘Palestine’ district. The forces destroyed buildings used for military purposes, rocket and weapons storehouses, tunnels and underground facilities, rocket launching and sniper positions, some operating in or near civilian buildings. IDF forces and the Israel Security Agency also recovered the bodies of two Israelis who had been kidnapped in the October 7, 2023 attack and massacre. An IDF officer was killed in an operational accident in Khan Yunis.”

We also see clearly the multiple levels of chaos and complexity Hamas has forced.

“’Palestinian sources’ reported that the neighborhoods of al-Zeitoun, al-Shuja’iya and Tuffah in eastern Gaza City were destroyed and emptied of residents. Most of the area’s population was reportedly pushed into the western part of the city, mainly into the al-Saraya area, al-Jalaa Street, al-Nasr Street, the area around the university, Tel al-Hawa, and the seafront promenade (al-Nuseirat News Telegram channel, August 29, 2025). The spokesperson for Civil Defense in Gaza also claimed that since the start of the Israeli operation on August 6, 2025, the IDF had completely destroyed more than 1,500 residential buildings in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, stating that the southern part of al-Zeitoun was ‘razed to the ground and no building stands.’ He added that the situation in the Jabaliya refugee camp and Jabaliya al-Nazla was no less dire, with the IDF’s continuing artillery shelling and the deployment of ‘explosive robots,’ without the ground advancement of military vehicles (Anatolia Agency, August 28, 2025).

It’s possible that at one time Israel might have allowed Hamas to leave. Not anymore. Hamas finds itself in the same type of situation the Nazis were in during the Battle of Berlin in 1945.

“On August 29, 2025, the Hamas military wing reported fierce battles in the southern part of the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. Hamas claimed its operatives had detonated a powerful charge which ‘destroyed’ an Israeli APC near the University of Gaza, and that IDF rescue helicopters were seen landing after the incident (Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades Telegram channel, August 29, 2025). ‘Sources in Gaza City’ claimed that ‘resistance fighters’ infiltrated through tunnels and reached Israeli forces in al-Zeitoun, surprising them with gunfire and explosive charges, some of which had been placed in advance. The ‘sources’ confirmed that the ‘fighters’ tried to abduct soldiers, but their activities were ‘disrupted’ by the Israeli Air Force aerial attacks (al-Sharq al-Awsat, August 30, 2025). Seven IDF soldiers were wounded, one seriously, when their APC hit an explosive charge in al-Zeitoun.”

 

For the duration (until Jesus returns), terrorists will attempt to abduct innocents, including IDF soldiers. It’s their one real piece of leverage and a lesson learned 20 years ago when Gilad Shalit was kidnapped and held for five years by Hamas. A staggered 1,027 terrorists were swapped for Shalit. It all worked well for the terrorists.

And while the “Day After” has been discussed, and reports vary widely as to the fate of Gaza, the model of America stepping in and remaking the vanquished area as a resort-style paradise is back in vogue. Intensifying negotiations over the fate of the Arabs of Gaza—nobody wants them—will land who knows where. Egypt doesn’t want them. Not surprisingly, the “Palestinians’ brothers” are not throwing open their front doors anywhere. Some have said Ethiopia or Sudan would bring in a sizeable number.

Who knows?

For us believers, besides advocating for the hostages, let’s pray very hard for the individual IDF troops that have walked into this hell-scape. I wouldn’t be surprised if this operation is largely over…just in time for the second anniversary of the barbaric attacks of October 7, 2023.

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