Gaza Genocide07 October, 20262 min read
Marwan Bishara Says Hamas Set Gaza War Process In Motion On October 7
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Hamas set Gaza war process in motion on October 7, says Bishara. Netanyahu and his government allegedly exaggerated and deceived about October 7 events.
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Bishara on “Twelve Days”
Marwan Bishara argued that “Twelve days were enough” to “expose the anatomy of Israel’s war, its intent, its strategy, and the method of its madness” in the period from Benjamin Netanyahu’s October 7 speech to Biden’s “rare” Oval Office speech on October 19. Bishara said “Genocides don’t start with bombs; they start with ideology,” and he added that “the ideology has been decades in the making.”
Bishara linked the start of the Gaza war to “the attack of October 7” as “the trigger for what came after,” and he said Hamas “set the process in motion on October 7” before “lost control of that process the very same day.” Bishara described a sequence that began with “the dehumanization” of Palestinians “as animals, Nazi-like,” and he said Netanyahu and his government “had to go overboard, to exaggerate, to lie, to deceive about what exactly happened” to justify actions in Gaza.
Hannibal doctrine and escalation
Marwan Bishara explained the Hannibal doctrine as an Israeli military concept invoked in the early 1980s, saying it was framed around not “afford to have Israeli soldiers being captured.” Bishara said the doctrine meant that if “any one Israeli soldier — later on, civilian — is captured,” the Israeli military would take “extraordinary measure to kill the operation,” including “to kill the soldier, the Israeli soldier, or the Israeli civilian.”
Bishara said that on October 7, “in the early hours of the morning of October 7,” the Israeli military “invoked the Hannibal doctrine,” and he described Israeli aircrafts, jets, bombers, and tanks carrying “attacks against suspected conflict zones.” Haaretz framed Israel’s Gaza war as a shift in regional dynamics, writing that “Israel launched the war in Gaza with half-baked goals but an insatiable thirst for revenge.”
Regional consequences and new calculations
Sabah Zangeneh, in an interview with KhabarOnline, said that “Three years after the October 7 operation” the Middle East faces “a broad set of security, political, and geostrategic developments.” Zangeneh said the Gaza war and subsequent confrontations “raised the level of hostilities from proxy to direct confrontation,” and he described how “Gaza, except for some areas, was reduced to dust.”
Zangeneh said “all security holes or gaps were identified both by the Palestinians and by the Israeli regime,” and he said both sides “pursued filling these security holes.” Britannica’s account of the wider 2026 Iran war described how “Operation Epic Fury was the U.S. code name for its joint military operations with Israel against Iran” that began on February 28, 2026, and concluded on May 5.