For months, the world has clung to a comforting illusion that Hamas can be “managed,” deterred, contained, reasoned with. That October 7th was an “outburst,” a “desperation move,” something that can be prevented next time with the right arrangements, the right mediators, the right formulas.
Segev Kalfon, kidnapped from the Nova music festival and held for
hundreds of days inside Hamas terror tunnels, has come out with testimony that
should shatter every fantasy still floating around in diplomatic circles.
Senior Hamas officials told him directly: They have no problem promising
Netanyahu that there would be no more October 7th massacres, as they would then
massacre Jews on October 8th and October 9th instead.
From Hamas’s perspective, concepts like peace, de-escalation, or restraint are not end goals but tactical language— deception used as a tool of strategy. They frame temporary truces as pauses—much like the early Islamic precedent of a hudna.
Kalfon describes long conversations in the underground tunnels with the
commander of Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion, a senior figure connected to Ismail
Haniyeh’s inner circle. These were not low-level fighters. These were
decision-makers. And according to them, the horror of
October 7th was only considered a “mistake” for one reason: Iran, Hezbollah,
and the broader Muslim world did not join the war.
They did not regret their actions of slaughtering babies, burning people
alive or raping, kidnapping and mutilating them. No.
They regretted it because they were left to fight alone.Think about what
that means.
From inside the tunnels, from the mouths of those running this terror
army, the regret is not moral—it is logistical. Their complaint was not that
they went too far. It was that their partners did not show up.
This aligns perfectly with what we have seen for decades: a worldview
where deception is a tool, where “agreements” are tactical, and where the
ultimate goal is not coexistence, but elimination.
Kalfon also recounts Hamas leaders openly mocking Qatar and the broader
Muslim world. The objective was not negotiations or leverage. It was
annihilation. The language of “understandings,” “arrangements,” or a so-called
“day after” is not taken seriously by them. It is a stage prop. A tactic. A
mask.
This is not a theory or an analysis. This is first hand testimony from a
man who sat face-to-face with Hamas leadership while they believed they had all
the time in the world.
And yet, even now, there are still voices talking about rebuilding Gaza
with Hamas still breathing, about “stabilization,” about international
frameworks that assume this is a conflict that can be cooled rather than an
ideology that must be defeated.
We are not dealing with a rational adversary seeking a better political
arrangement. We are dealing with a jihadi Islamic enemy that openly says its
only regret was not killing more Jews with more help.
Anyone still clinging to illusions should listen carefully.
Gaza must be cleared of all jihadi Muslims who educate their children
in United Nations UNRWA
schools to kill Jews and destroy Israel.
The truth came out of the tunnels.
