Iranian officials spent weeks helping Hamas plan its attack on Israel, WSJ reports
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The Wall Street Journal reported officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps partnered with Hamas to plan Saturday's attack on Israel.
  • @ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    37•1 year ago

    Conspiracy theory time…. Russia asked Iran (who is already helping them against Ukraine) to help Hamas trigger a fight with Israel knowing it would pull the attention of the US away from its war with Ukraine.

    • @AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      I think Russia probably encouraged this, but I think it’s another miscalculation. America is set up at this point to fight proxy wars. Now all that happens is Israel weapons gets added as a line item alongside Ukraine on a defense budget bill that’s now easier to pass. So they may have been involved or just encouraged, but I think it’s gonna backfire.

    • @AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      That seems like a really bad idea considering that the intransigence in the house was doing a pretty good job of blocking aid to Ukraine as is. Doing anything to fuck with Israel seems like It would be obviously encouraging the parties to come to some kind of consensus so they can pass an aid bill to Israel.

      If this is a sneaky Russian plot, then they’re even worse at any of this warfare stuff than everyone already suspected.

    • BuelldozerEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      knowing it would pull the attention of the US away from its war with Ukraine.

      Nah, the US isn’t directly involved in Ukraine and it won’t be directly involved in Israel either so it doesn’t diminish our attention or our capability. The US Military is currently setup to handle our direct participation in multiple regional conflicts simultaneously so a couple of proxy wars isn’t taxing in any meaningful way.

      Frankly all this will likely do is force a pile of squabbling US politicians to get their shit together and focus. Oh, and if they can prove that Russia was involved in an attack on Israel, even tangentially, then the US is probably going to hand Ukraine the Hammer of Thor and tell 'em to go nuts.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The Wall Street Journal reported that officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have partnered with Hamas since August to prepare for the breach of Israel’s borders.

    Representatives for the Israeli Defense Force and Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

    Hezbollah focused missile strikes on a contested portion of the Israel, Lebanon, and Syria border on Sunday, according to reporting by the Associated Press.

    There have been no widespread reports of involvement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in this weekend’s conflict in Israel outside of helping to plan the attack by Hamas forces.

    The declaration of war this weekend is an escalation of decades of tension between the two groups since the founding of Israel in 1948, including the forced evictions of Palestinians from newly-declared Israeli land, and years of deadly missile strikes exchanged between the two nations.

    The Washington Post reported US officials said Sunday they expect Israel to launch a full-scale ground invasion in the next 24 to 48 hours.

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