The Hamas-run Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike caused an explosion that killed hundreds at the Ahli Arab hospital, but the Israeli military says it was a misfired Palestinian rocket.
Hitler had a plan.
So did Napoleon.
As the underrated military historian Mike Tyson has noted, everybody has a plan.
Until they get punched in the face.
Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attack on Israel wasn’t dreamed up overnight.
Iran helped script the mayhem and signed off on the timing, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Documents found on the bodies of dead terrorists indicate a comprehensive agenda of murder and bloodshed mapped out months, even years in advance.
“I’ve never seen this kind of detailed planning,” an Israel Defense Forces official told NBC News.
So it wasn’t a lark.
Someone put a lot of thought into this atrocity.
And viewed one way, the plan was a success.
If the goal was to kill more than a thousand Israelis and kidnap hundreds back to Gaza, then Hamas should be satisfied with its weekend of dirty work.
But it’s worth asking what Hamas and its Iranian puppet masters hoped all this savagery would achieve in the long run.
Because they’ll almost certainly end up getting more than they planned for.
Osama bin Laden thought he could chase the United States out of the Middle East with a single sucker punch.
He made a big mess, but now he’s gone.
Uncle Sam still has his toes in the sand. That wasn’t in the plan.
In 1948, the Arab states tried to strangle Israel in its infancy.
