11 ore 26 min, 21 giug 2025 anni - Jerusalem Post: Israel’s counterterrorism expert who predicted the Hamas invasion

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MK Edelstein tells Post ‘Hamas carried out the terrorist attack, but Iran is the one behind this shocking murder of dozens of innocent Israeli women, children and men’.
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
OCTOBER 8, 2023 14:20
Updated: OCTOBER 8, 2023 19:49

Yigal Carmon, the founder and president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), wrote on August 31, in a piece titled the “Signs Of Possible War In September-October,” that “there has been an increase in efforts by Iran and Hezbollah to smuggle weapons into the West Bank, similar to the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.

“Lately,” he continued, “there have been growing indications that a war against Israel may break out in September or October. The trigger may be spiraling violent clashes resulting in many casualties, or the use of new weapons leading to many fatalities on the Israeli side,” wrote Carmon, who worked to combat terrorism for Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.

He also noted the recent reports about “the potential use of new weapons by Hezbollah, Hamas, and the PIJ that can cause a large number of Israeli fatalities, such as extra-powerful explosive charges and rockets fired on Israeli localities... In this situation, Israel will likely be compelled to undertake a large-scale response, above and beyond its routine counterterrorism measures, even at the cost of an all-out war.”

PIJ secretary-general Ziad Al-Nakhaleh said that, during his June meeting with Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei, the latter had “reiterated [the need to] develop the arming of the West Bank and the resistance there.”

Nakhaleh added that “We, as Palestinians and as resistance forces and movements, understand the importance of arming the West Bank, but this requires efforts by the Palestinians themselves, and also the assistance of our brothers in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

People react on the road, in the aftermath of rocket barrages that were launched from Gaza, in Ashkelon, Israel October 7, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)
People react on the road, in the aftermath of rocket barrages that were launched from Gaza, in Ashkelon, Israel October 7, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)
Predicting the attacks
Carmon told The Jerusalem Post that the attack aimed “to prevent normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia,” with respect to bilateral diplomatic relations.

The role of Iran in all this was covered in other parts of his essay, as Israeli and American politicians stressed that the Hamas invasion was backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.....

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