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*IDF: Hamas’s Oct 7 massacre aimed at torpedoing normalization efforts between Israel and Saudi Arabia*
May 19, 2025 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams <jihadwatch.org/author/christine-williams>7 Comments <jihadwatch.org/2025/05/idf-hamass-oct-7-massacre-aimed-at-torpedoing-normalization-efforts-between-israel-and-saudi-arabia#comments>
Prior to October 7, Hamas had a $2 billion <nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/hamas-money> annual budget, while “the cumulative net worth of Hamas’s top leaders abroad is estimated at $11 billion.” Hamas has made no secret of its mission: to destroy the Jewish state. The Palestinian culture of hatred has financially benefitted it handsomely. For instance, the Palestinian Authority spent <www.jpost.com/american-politics/will-biden-circumvent-us-law-against-pay-for-slay-664006> nearly $350 million annually on its pay-for-slay program (also known as its “martyrs fund”) to incentivize the murder of Israelis. By comparison, it spent only $220 million “for its other welfare programs for the rest of its citizens.”
According to the Arab Center <arabcenterdc.org/resource/international-aid-to-the-palestinians-between-politicization-and-development/> in Washington DC:
figures compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, aid to Palestinians amounted to more than *$40 billion between 1994 and 2020.* The largest portion of this assistance (35.4 percent) went to support the PA budget, while the rest was allocated to various services and economic sectors in the Palestinian territories. The bulk of the aid—nearly 72 percent—came from ten donors: the European Union (18.9), the United States (14.2), Saudi Arabia (9.9), Germany (5.8), the United Arab Emirates (5.2), Norway (4.8), United Kingdom (4.3), the World Bank (3.2), Japan (2.9), and France (2.7).
Although the Wall Street Journal reported that “then-Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was concerned that US-brokered normalization efforts between Saudi Arabia and Israel would take attention away from advancing the notion of a Palestinian statehood,” it really was never about Palestinian statehood at all. The entire “resistance” is about a one-state solution, that is, the total obliteration of Israel.
The IDF documents, however, reveal “that Sinwar said that there was ‘no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly,’ and that such an agreement would ‘open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.’”
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has also declared the unity of the Muslim ummah on the Palestinian cause <www.un.org/unispal/document/mauritania-oic-letter-10may24/#:~:text=Condemning%20the%20continuation%20of%20the,colonialism%20and%20gain%20their%20rights.>. Khamenei also called for unity of Muslim ummah <jihadwatch.org/2025/05/khamenei-calls-for-unity-of-muslim-ummah-to-defend-gaza-and-yemen-ahead-of-this-years-hajj> to defend Gaza and Yemen ahead of this year’s hajj.
Should Arab states normalize relations with Israel, it will be a blow to the Palestinian leadership, as well as a blow to the entire Islamic jihad worldwide. Arab states have tried to destroy Israel from the day of its founding. It makes sense that jihadists everywhere will would aim to keep the jihad against Israel alive. October 7 also served to “*globalize the intifada,”* as jihadists had planned, but they did not expect such a successful retaliation from Israel. Hamas is now greatly reduced, as is Hizballah.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s Gaza plan threatens to stymie efforts to preserve the Palestinian cause as a united one, not to mention keeping Palestinians as eternal victims, bleeding other countries in donations.
Unity in Palestinian victimhood unites jihadists everywhere, and has been lucrative.
Hamas invasion intended to thwart Israeli peace with Saudi Arabia, docs reveal – WSJ,” Jerusalem Post <m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854372>, May 18, 2025:
Yahya Sinwar was quoted in secret Hamas meeting notes that ISraeli-Saudi normalization would “open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.”
Hamas’s October 7 massacre was aimed at torpedoing the normalization efforts between Israel and Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Hamas meeting transcripts found by the IDF.
The WSJ reported that then-Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was concerned that US-brokered normalization efforts between Saudi Arabia and Israel <m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-853029> would take attention away from advancing the notion of a Palestinian statehood.
According to the documents, Sinwar said that there was “no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly,” and that such an agreement would “open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.”
In the months leading up to Hamas’s 2023 attack on southern Israel, the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia had all suggested that differences were narrowing between Riyadh and Jerusalem.
Sinwar reportedly planned the attack “to bring about a major move or a strategic shift in… the region concerning the Palestinian cause,” the documents cited by the WSJ demonstrate….
*IDF: Hamas’s Oct 7 massacre aimed at torpedoing normalization efforts between Israel and Saudi Arabia*
May 19, 2025 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams <jihadwatch.org/author/christine-williams>7 Comments <jihadwatch.org/2025/05/idf-hamass-oct-7-massacre-aimed-at-torpedoing-normalization-efforts-between-israel-and-saudi-arabia#comments>
Prior to October 7, Hamas had a $2 billion <nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/hamas-money> annual budget, while “the cumulative net worth of Hamas’s top leaders abroad is estimated at $11 billion.” Hamas has made no secret of its mission: to destroy the Jewish state. The Palestinian culture of hatred has financially benefitted it handsomely. For instance, the Palestinian Authority spent <www.jpost.com/american-politics/will-biden-circumvent-us-law-against-pay-for-slay-664006> nearly $350 million annually on its pay-for-slay program (also known as its “martyrs fund”) to incentivize the murder of Israelis. By comparison, it spent only $220 million “for its other welfare programs for the rest of its citizens.”
According to the Arab Center <arabcenterdc.org/resource/international-aid-to-the-palestinians-between-politicization-and-development/> in Washington DC:
figures compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, aid to Palestinians amounted to more than *$40 billion between 1994 and 2020.* The largest portion of this assistance (35.4 percent) went to support the PA budget, while the rest was allocated to various services and economic sectors in the Palestinian territories. The bulk of the aid—nearly 72 percent—came from ten donors: the European Union (18.9), the United States (14.2), Saudi Arabia (9.9), Germany (5.8), the United Arab Emirates (5.2), Norway (4.8), United Kingdom (4.3), the World Bank (3.2), Japan (2.9), and France (2.7).
Although the Wall Street Journal reported that “then-Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was concerned that US-brokered normalization efforts between Saudi Arabia and Israel would take attention away from advancing the notion of a Palestinian statehood,” it really was never about Palestinian statehood at all. The entire “resistance” is about a one-state solution, that is, the total obliteration of Israel.
The IDF documents, however, reveal “that Sinwar said that there was ‘no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly,’ and that such an agreement would ‘open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.’”
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has also declared the unity of the Muslim ummah on the Palestinian cause <www.un.org/unispal/document/mauritania-oic-letter-10may24/#:~:text=Condemning%20the%20continuation%20of%20the,colonialism%20and%20gain%20their%20rights.>. Khamenei also called for unity of Muslim ummah <jihadwatch.org/2025/05/khamenei-calls-for-unity-of-muslim-ummah-to-defend-gaza-and-yemen-ahead-of-this-years-hajj> to defend Gaza and Yemen ahead of this year’s hajj.
Should Arab states normalize relations with Israel, it will be a blow to the Palestinian leadership, as well as a blow to the entire Islamic jihad worldwide. Arab states have tried to destroy Israel from the day of its founding. It makes sense that jihadists everywhere will would aim to keep the jihad against Israel alive. October 7 also served to “*globalize the intifada,”* as jihadists had planned, but they did not expect such a successful retaliation from Israel. Hamas is now greatly reduced, as is Hizballah.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s Gaza plan threatens to stymie efforts to preserve the Palestinian cause as a united one, not to mention keeping Palestinians as eternal victims, bleeding other countries in donations.
Unity in Palestinian victimhood unites jihadists everywhere, and has been lucrative.
Hamas invasion intended to thwart Israeli peace with Saudi Arabia, docs reveal – WSJ,” Jerusalem Post <m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854372>, May 18, 2025:
Yahya Sinwar was quoted in secret Hamas meeting notes that ISraeli-Saudi normalization would “open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.”
Hamas’s October 7 massacre was aimed at torpedoing the normalization efforts between Israel and Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Hamas meeting transcripts found by the IDF.
The WSJ reported that then-Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was concerned that US-brokered normalization efforts between Saudi Arabia and Israel <m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-853029> would take attention away from advancing the notion of a Palestinian statehood.
According to the documents, Sinwar said that there was “no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly,” and that such an agreement would “open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.”
In the months leading up to Hamas’s 2023 attack on southern Israel, the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia had all suggested that differences were narrowing between Riyadh and Jerusalem.
Sinwar reportedly planned the attack “to bring about a major move or a strategic shift in… the region concerning the Palestinian cause,” the documents cited by the WSJ demonstrate….
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