For the Tuesday edition of CBS Mornings, foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab did a profile on Hamas and while acknowledging the organization seeks to eliminate Israel, hailed their “sheer determination,” as if they were a scrappy football team, and its leader's “personal” revenge against Israel.’
Speaking live, Tyab proclaim, “over the years I've made frequent trips to Gaza and have spoken with several Hamas leaders and, you know, they know their military capabilities are no match for Israel's enormous fire power. But what they lack in fire power, they make up for in ideology and sheer determination. That resolve despite the odds may be what caught Israel so off guard.”
It is one thing to note that the enemy will fight hard and the effort to come will be difficult, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done, but Tyab seems to be treating them as if they are an underdog playing above their abilities against a much better team.
In a recorded segment, Tyab spoke with “former Israeli undercover commando and journalist who has interviewed several Hamas leaders” Avi Issacharoff, who declared, “They said it very honestly and very clearly. We will not stop until-- we will eliminate the state of Israel.”
In a voiceover, Tyab recalled, “When Hamas swept into power in 2007, it was almost immediately blockaded by land, sea, and air by Israel and Egypt. Since then, it's fought four major wars with Israel.”
Tyab then appeared to forget that context as he reported, “The leader of Hamas military-wing, Mohammad Deif, one of the self-declared masterminds of this weekend's attacks, said it was in response to recent Israeli raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque known to the Jews as the Temple Mount. Deif also said it was for the detention of Palestinians in Israeli jails and he said it was so Israel could understand its quote ‘time of rampaging without accountability has ended.’”
Nobody with any ability to think critically believes Hamas chose the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War to launch its war because of the Temple Mount or “the detention of Palestinians in Israeli jails.”
Worse, Tyab continued, “But for Deif, attacking Israel was also personal. His entire family was killed in an Israeli airstrike that was meant to target him.”
And why was Deif being targeted in the first place? Eventually Tyab got around the actual reason Hamas and Iran launched this war at this exact moment, “Over the past few months, the Biden Administration has also been trying to broker a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel.”
That is the reason for this war: Hamas and their Iranian patrons are opposed to peace because peace eliminates their entire ideological purpose for existing.
Here is a transcript for the October 10 show:
CBS Mornings
10/10/2023
9:04 AM ET
IMTIAZ TYAB: Good morning. You know, Vlad, over the years I've made frequent trips to Gaza and have spoken with several Hamas leaders and, you know, they know their military capabilities are no match for Israel's enormous fire power. But what they lack in fire power, they make up for in ideology and sheer determination. That resolve despite the odds may be what caught Israel so off guard.
Since its founding, Hamas has made ideals clear: Israel has no right to exist and that every Israeli citizen is a legitimate target.
AVI ISSACHAROFF: They didn't hide what they're planning to do. Even for one second.
TYAB: Avi Issacharoff is a former Israeli undercover commando and journalist who has interviewed several Hamas leaders.
ISSACHAROFF: They said it very honestly and very clearly. We will not stop until-- we will eliminate the state of Israel.
TYAB: When Hamas swept into power in 2007, it was almost immediately blockaded by land, sea, and air by Israel and Egypt. Since then, it's fought four major wars with Israel. The leader of Hamas military-wing, Mohammad Deif, one of the self-declared masterminds of this weekend's attacks, said it was in response to recent Israeli raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque known to the Jews as the Temple Mount.
Deif also said it was for the detention of Palestinians in Israeli jails and he said it was so Israel could understand its quote “time of rampaging without accountability has ended.”
But for Deif, attacking Israel was also personal. His entire family was killed in an Israeli airstrike that was meant to target him. Still, there are other major factors at play. Over the past few months, the Biden Administration has also been trying to broker a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
