Hamas Leader Is Apparently Having Some Second Thoughts About Oct. 7

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One of the yet-unliquidated leaders of Hamas has been quoted in the New York Times questioning the wisdom of the terrorist group's massacre of 1,200 people on October 7, 2023.  With the evil organization's leadership decimated, much of its rank and file membership dead, and huge swaths of Gaza reduced to rubble by Israel's counteroffensive, Mousa Abu Marzouk is having some second thoughts.  He just didn't expect what would occur after his colleagues butchered, raped and kidnapped as many Jews as they could, in a shocking orgy of violence that left more Jewish people dead in any single day since the Holocaust.  I'll have a few thoughts on the sentiments he expresses, but here are the quotes themselves:

 

"Hamas has declared “victory” over Israel, and some of its officials have vowed that their fighters will carry out more Oct. 7-style attacks in the future. But now one of Hamas’s top officials is publicly expressing reservations about the assault, which also touched off a humanitarian crisis that displaced nearly two million and led to critical shortages of food and health care. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the Qatar-based head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said in an interview with The New York...Read more, see Xs and video here.