More Evidence Iran Was Behind the 7 October 2023 Massacre in Israel
(This is an opinion piece, but is extensively researched with a lot of hyperlinks to source material)
The road to the Simchat Torah Pogrom began almost exactly twelve years earlier, in October 2011, when Israel released Yahya Sinwar in the exchange for Gilad Shalit. Sinwar, who had been in prison since 1988 and had his life saved by Israel removing a brain tumour in 2004, became the effective leader of HAMAS in the Gaza Strip soon after this.
Sinwar was imprisoned for orchestrating the abduction and murder of two Israeli soldiers, and murdering four Palestinian civilians he accused of being “collaborators”, three of them with his bare hands, choking and suffocating them. Among the Israeli hostages taken on 7 October were the Bibas family: nine-month-old Kfir, four-year-old Ariel, their mother Shiri, and father Yarden. HAMAS’s decision shortly afterwards to strangle the two babies to death and slaughter Shiri is less surprising once one knows Sinwar’s background.
The second Gaza war in November 2012 made clear that HAMAS in the Strip, already dominated by Sinwar, operated within the IRGC Network, and all ambiguity was removed shortly afterwards when the “Political Bureau” set aside its gambit over Syria. HAMAS’s leadership was thoroughly purged, all the key military commanders around Sinwar were known for their closeness to the IRGC, and Sinwar was formally proclaimed Leader in early 2017. Sinwar was not secretive about his ideological allegiance to Iran, nor HAMAS’s wholesale material dependence on the IRGC. By the time of the fourth Gaza war in May 2021, HAMAS fought virtually undisguised as a front in the IRGC’s jihad against Israel.
In the aftermath of the 2021 round, Sinwar and his deputies became convinced a final solution was possible and began to speak of an apocalyptic showdown to would destroy Israel, what they called “the Last Promise” (al-Wa’d al-Akhir)—interestingly, a name used years earlier by a jihadi-Salafist publication in Gaza. Conferences were held where HAMAS went into demented detail about the zones of command and distribution of properties in Israel after the State was conquered. This strategic concept became the October 2023 HAMAS invasion of Israel.
https://www.kyleorton.com/p/more-evidence-iran-role-oct-7-captured-hamas-documents