It is rather unsettling to admit it, hut the Most Wanted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has failed in achieving his two goals in his war on Gaza while Hamas has won.
If the Trump ceasefire holds - which I doubt very much that it will, and regardless of whether or not Hamas will have any official role in the governance of Gaza (assuming we get to the point of any governance there), the net outcome of the most brutal genocide of this 21st century is the defeat of Israel and the victory for Palestine.
The two goals often repeated by Netanyahu is to retreive all the Israeli captives from Hamas and the destruction-extermination-annihilation-blah blah blah of Hamas.
Some of the captives were returned alive but the majority were retrieved as dead bodies, often killed by their own "protective" Israeli terror army and its blind bombing of targets in Gaza during two years. We are far from the Entebbe (Uganda) raid that liberated Israeli captives in 1976. We are far from the undercover assassinations of Palestinian refugee leaders in exile in Beirut in April 1973, those same leaders whose PLO jumped overnight from a terrorist organization to a partner in peace. All these operations were held as testimony to Israel's might. Yet, Israel could not achieve militarily its goals in Gaza despite unprecedented violence stemming out of the desperate realization that it lost control of itself first and of the situtation second.
Yes, Israel is a regional superpower, supplied with the latest most advanced western weaponry. But its violent creation and deficiency at making friends in the region has condemned it to live in a constant state of war, at the mercy of western generosity (largely hinging on the guilt of the Holocaust), and literally in the protective custody of the West. All it takes to realize the precariousness of life as a violent and brutal foreign colonial implant in a Near East that has not ceased, and will continue, to reject it, is to imagine the Gaza War with the Palestinians supplied with the same arsenal of weapons as Israel.
Ironically, not only has Israel's failure, in spite of its barbarity and savagery in Gaza, exposed its vulnerabilities, it has also opened the eyes of the world to the genesis of this colonial rapist of Palestine. Long occulted out of the mainstream by Zionist propaganda and Western guilt, Israel's creation was not the heroic war of independence that had beren presented to the world. It was itself a Gaza 1.0.
By sheer overwhelming illegality and terror, hundreds of thousands of illegal European migrants descended on Palestine, wave after wave, under the pernicious collusion of the British empire which had a fiduciary international mandate over Palestine (and did not own Palestine, neither as British territory nor as a British colony). With terror organizations like Palmach, Haganah, the Stern Gang, Irgun, and many others, the illegal migrant Jewish European terrorists waged a campaign that killed, raped, expelled, bombed, displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of their villages and towns to create the artificial state of Israel.
No amount of UN resolutions reversed the course of events to allow Palestinians to return to their lands. Only one resolution was enough, the one that created Israel, adopted not by the Security Council (where a single veto could have changed the course of events), but by a vote in the General Assembly, that same body that has voted a million times in favor of a Palestinian state. General Assembly votes are non-binding now, but it was conveniently binding only once, when Israel was created out of nothing by the violent uprooting of an entire nation out of its ancestral lands.
Israel is today a rogue criminal colonial apartheid state shunned by most countries around the world. The crimes of Hamas on October 7 pale in comparison to the crimes of the Jewish terror organizations of the 1930s and 1940s (see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_attacks) that enabled the creation of Israel. Despite its brutality and violence, and despite its Islamist ideology, Hamas is matched by the brutality and violence of Israel and its ultra-religious Jewish supremacist ideology.
Just as Jewish Zionist terror won back in the 20th century, Palestinian terror is also bearing fruit. After demonizing Yasser Arafat and his secular resistance organization, the PLO, for decades, Israel was forced to make Arafat its partner in peace. To counter the trend towards peace born out of Oslo, because it went against their fundamental colonial ambitions, the Zionists then invented or enabled Hamas as an Islamic resistance. It is easier to demonize a radical Islamist Palestinian resistance than a moderate secular Palestinian resistance.
With his own enabled terror organization Hamas as a very convenient pretext, Netanyahu blockaded Gaza for decades, yet he continued to funnel Qatar money to Hamas, allowing it to grow and prosper: His objective was to weaken his own partner in peace - the Palestinian Authority (PA) - and divide the Palestinians. He could no longer blame the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization, so he had to create a substitute: He let Hamas take the lead of the resistance so he could blame its Islamist ideology as the fountain of terror. His real objective is to exterminate ANY Palestinian resistance. He doesn't want Palestine, period, even if it is the most democratic, peaceful and civilized nation on earth. Instead of building and cementing the Oslo Accords, Netanyahu's Radical Right did everything to undermine the PA: more expulsions, more demolitions, more killings, more land stealing and settlement building...
And now, Zionists are back to their stale games. As peace with Hamas becomes inevitable, and with it a free State of Palestine, the Zionists are already creating terrorist substitutes to Hamas. Some time soon, Israel will no longer be able to blame Hamas, so it needs another boogeyman among the Palestinians with which to reduce the resistance of an entire nation to a terror organization.
Mark my words: the so-called "clans" you will read about in the CNN piece below as a challenge to Hamas will become the Hamas of tomorrow. Israel is arming them now it is funding them now.... but if and when they assert their dominance over Hamas, Israel will use them as the new terrorist pretext to continue its rape of Palestine.
But for now, Netanyahu and his ultra-religious Jewish supremacist fundamentalists have been caught at their own game. The net outcome of October 7, 2023 is that Israel lost and Palestine won. Period.
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Hamas asserts control in Gaza and targets alleged collaborators as ceasefire takes hold
Tim Lister and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN
Sun, October 12, 2025
Members of the internal security forces loyal to Hamas in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Israel has been pulling back its forces as part of a ceasefire agreement - Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
Hamas is reasserting control of parts of Gaza not occupied by Israeli forces as the ceasefire takes hold – amid continuing uncertainty about security in the territory if the group is disarmed.
Hamas’ internal security forces were pictured on the streets of Gaza City on Saturday, and there have been multiple reports of clashes between the group and clans opposing it in recent days.
“A number of collaborators and informants were apprehended and arrested in Gaza City, after it was proven that they were involved in spying for the enemy,” as well as “participating in the assassination of several resistance members,” the Palestinian Home Front, a Telegram channel affiliated with Hamas, said Sunday.
“The security services and the resistance are conducting a wide-scale field campaign across all areas of the Gaza Strip, from north to south, to locate and arrest collaborators and informants,” it said.
A video distributed by Hamas-affiliated Telegram channels on Saturday showed an alleged collaborator being beaten in an unknown location.
Other social media videos showed armed and masked Hamas personnel walking through a street market in Gaza City, and the Hamas-run interior ministry shared images of officers with rifles and baseball caps that read “police” in Gaza City interacting with locals.
Members of the internal security forces man a checkpoint in the Nuseirat refugee camp. - Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
Hamas has long held an iron grip over Gaza that continued even into the war. CNN has reported on Hamas executing and maiming alleged looters, a sign of the group’s continuing power despite being weakened by Israel.
The Hamas-controlled interior ministry has declared a week-long amnesty to begin Monday for members of criminal gangs “not involved in bloodshed or killings.”
But Hamas’ control of Gaza has been challenged by several clans in recent months, especially in the south. Some of those groups have received protection from the Israeli military.
Social media channels affiliated with Hamas reported clashes in the Sabra area of Gaza City between a prominent family and security forces during which Muhammad Imad Aql, the son of a senior Hamas military commander, was killed.
Hamas forces surrounded the Dughmush family’s neighborhood on Friday night. Sources told CNN that several members of the family had been killed, and a large number of masked, armed men had been deployed around the Jordanian hospital in Gaza City.
CNN was told Sunday that clashes continued in the area.
In southern Gaza, a group opposed to Hamas known as the Popular Forces has refused to lay down its arms.
The group has been involved in escorting aid shipments and has publicly challenged Hamas, which in turn has said it will confront what it called a criminal gang.
One of its commanders, Hussam al-Astal, posted on Facebook Saturday: “To all the Hamas rats, your tunnels are destroyed, your rights no longer exist. Repent before it’s too late – there is no Hamas from today onward.”
“We are trying to be an alternative to Hamas,” al-Astal told Israeli network Channel 12. “They commit to psychological warfare… and they will use all their power to prove that there is no other option in the Strip but them.”
However, Popular Forces members are thought to have relocated behind what is known as the ‘yellow line’ inside southern Gaza, where Israeli forces are still present.
Unresolved questions
It is unclear how security and policing will work in Gaza in weeks and months to come.
Palestinian flags flutter on top of rubble in Gaza City. - Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images
Israel has long demanded that Hamas disarm but the group has resisted this.
US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan, published last week, says that “Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty.”
It also says there will be a process of demilitarization of Gaza “under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning.”
In the place of Hamas, according to the Trump plan, an International Stabilization Force (ISF) will immediately deploy to Gaza and “will train and provide support to vetted Palestinian police forces.”
But critical details of the security force and a planned international oversight mechanism have yet to be worked out beyond the vague bullet points of the initial plan.
In the complex reality of Gaza’s current situation, such a force could take months or longer to establish, especially amid a humanitarian crisis and massive damage to buildings and other infrastructure.
“Deployment (of the ISF) in the required numbers will have to occur over some time, and will be a major logistical challenge,” according to London-based think tank Chatham House.
“Issues of coordination, direction and control of an untested multinational venture of the scale required will also be formidable,” it said last week.
Casualties among Gaza’s police force during the two-year conflict have contributed to a deterioration in security, with looting of aid becoming commonplace.
Jordan and Egypt are expected to take the leading role in training and supervising the new police force. But it’s unclear when that force will begin to patrol the streets of Gaza, and whether Hamas’ internal security forces will disappear when it does.
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