Hamas’s Real Fight Was Always for Hearts And Minds

How Are They Waging It? And Who Is Winning?

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When Hamas soldiers and Gazans, some committed fighters, others caught up in the euphoria of Jew-killing, stormed into Israel on October 7, what was their real objective?

Was this an operation designed to capture and hold territory, dismantle Israel’s military infrastructure, or even threaten Israel’s sovereignty?

Despite the horrific scale of the massacre, Hamas made no serious attempt to seize strategic locations, cr…