Ari Flanzraich
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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But that's a bit of a problem for Hamas.
You're a group of gritty, sort of nitty gritty resistance fighters.
You came to power, you fought some wars, didn't win, but you didn't get totally beat.
And now you're just bureaucrats.
Now you have to go from grit to governance.
And that's fine, maybe for a year, maybe for two, because the next big battle's coming.
What happens three, four, five years later?
At some point, people are sitting there.
They have a much lower quality of life than people in the West Bank.
Palestinians in the West Bank, at the very least, can come into Israel for years and years and years, half of them illegally in work, make an Israeli salary, go back home.
In Gaza, they didn't have a whole lot going for them.
And I think at some point in time, maybe around 2018...
it became clear that, I think people were kind of starting to ask the question is like, okay, if we picked you and you're supposed to fight and now we're just eating shit here, we might as well get the PA back.
And you say that you don't sit down with the Jews and you don't recognize the Jews and you're not going to make peace with them.
But like you talk to them on a weekly basis, you just have some Egyptian guy in the middle playing telephone tag.
And I think that the leader of Hamas, I think Yahya Sinwar,
Um, I think he understood that I think around 2018, he began to understand that like, this is not a sustainable, this is not something sustainable.
Can't keep going like this.
in terms of the planning if you're talking about the concrete steps look i'm not an intelligence analyst um from what we know i think from what was released uh we understand that sometime in october 2022 it might have the real planning could have been underway the conceptual planning for something of this sort i think had been working within sinuar since he was probably a teenager
I mean, there's a famous quote.
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