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The ISIS-Israel-U.S.-NATO Alliance to Eliminate the Gazans

15 June 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Wikipedia’s article “Islamic State – Sinai Province” is about ISIS in the Egyptian Province of “Sinai,” which borders on Gaza, and which branch of ISIS is identified there as being called “Wilayat Sinai.” It is an important branch of ISIS.

Regardless of whether a reader here is for the Palestinians, or for the Israelis, I am writing here for anyone who recognizes that in order to wage a war, only a fool won’t know that the necessity, above all else, is that one must first UNDERSTAND one’s enemy — even if only in order to defeat that enemy. The enemy here is ISIS and its allies. It is important to know whom its allies are — and whom its enemies are.

On 1 December 2017, Madamasr-dot-com headlined “The tales of Palestinian fighters in Sinai”, and opened:

“We emphasize that the recent agreements between the infidel Egyptian intelligence and the apostate Hamas leadership, which aim to besiege the mujahideen and tighten the noose around the caliphate soldiers in the blessed land of Sinai, will not be fruitful. And what comes next will be greater. What you heard about us yesterday, you will see with your own eyes today. To the gangs of the apostate Hamas, supporters of the Egyptian military, we say to let up on the mujahideen, or what comes next will be worse and more bitter.”

This harshly worded warning, placing Hamas and Egyptian security forces in the same sentence, took up most of the terse statement released by the Islamic State-affiliate Province of Sinai [Wilayat Sinai] on September 12. It was the statement in which the group claimed responsibility for the September 11 attack on a security convoy coming from Bir al-Abd, west of Arish, that left 18 Egyptian Armed Forces soldiers dead.

The article said “One critical voice to emerge was that of Abdel Latif Moussa, who founded the Salafi [meaning extremist Sunni] jihadi group Jund Ansar Allah in 2008.”

It called

August 14, 2009 a landmark day in the internal struggle between Hamas and the Salafis [Wilayat Sinai, al-Qaeda, and any other Sunni extremists]. It was the day that Moussa, from the pulpit in the Ibn Taymiyyah Mosque, announced the establishment of an Islamic Emirate. He directed members to put on explosive belts and march around the city.

The Qassam Brigades sent Abu Jibreel al-Shamali, a prominent commander who had been involved in the capture of Israeli Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, to negotiate with the militants once they retreated into the mosque. After the negotiations, Shamali was killed at the door of the mosque.

In a statement, the Qassam Brigades blamed Moussa’s men for Shamali’s death. “Abu Jibreel spent years of his life in jihad for God hoping to meet Him as a martyr of direct confrontation with the occupation forces in order to rub their noses in the dirt, but God’s will be done,” it said. “A sector of aggressors came out and declared that the resilient Hamas and its government, who are patient against all conspiracies, are apostates.”

Hamas’ response was swift and conclusive. They directed heavy gunfire at the mosque and surrounding buildings. Dozens were wounded on both sides, and 24 people were killed, including Moussa and Abu Abdalla al-Muhajer (sometimes known as Abu Abdallah al-Suri), who was Moussa’s military commander and once active in the Qassam Brigades.

For the Hamas security official [who was “a Hamas security official” and “tells Mada Masr, speaking on condition of anonymity”], this was a watershed moment. “Since this incident, many young people in the Qassam Brigades have leaned toward the jihadis, at least intellectually if not necessarily organizationally,” he says. “Anyone engaged in armed struggle has ideas which lean toward extremism and away from civic life. However, the narrative of victimhood of the Abdel Latif Moussa group played a role. And it is not strange to later find those individuals taking on roles in helping extremists in their wars, years after the mosque incident, as in Syria, after the Arab Spring, and in Egypt, particularly after the removal of [Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated President Mohamed] Morsi. Not only did Hamas’s political leadership not issue a political decision to advance this. It ran contrary to their desires.”

Moussa was killed, but he left behind some disciples.

One disciple is Nour Sobhi Eissa, a young leading Palestinian militant who was arrested in the Salam neighborhood, east of the Palestinian city of Rafah near the border with Egypt, on October 6.

In a statement announcing the arrest, Hamas’s Interior Ministry Spokesperson Eyad al-Bazm said the 27-year-old Eissa, also known as Abu Anas al-Maqdisi and Abu Anas al-Ghazi, is “one of the most important wanted people in Gaza, known for his allegiance to the Islamic State.” …

According to the Hamas security official, “Hamas was not responsible for militants moving from Gaza to Egypt, or to other places, be they Libya or Syria. Most of those who moved were pursued or apprehended by [Hamas] security forces. And this has been a constant for many years. There is a clear belief on the part of the politicians of Gaza that the existence of organizations which work under the patronage of Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State are a threat to the security of the resistance in Gaza as a whole [i.e., to Hamas].”

On 9 December 2021, the Israeli-American site, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), headlined “Egypt’s Counterinsurgency Success in Sinai” and reported:

The Rise of Wilayat Sinai

Wilayat Sinai emerged in November 2014, when the jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Over the next year, attacks in Sinai increased by about 130 percent and fatalities rose 250 percent, according to statistics from the Global Terrorism Database. …

The group has executed notorious terrorist attacks, most notably the 2015 bombing of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268, which killed 224 people.

During its peak, Wilayat Sinai drew on several sources for its strength, none more important than its tribal connections. Many of its leaders hailed from the large Sawarka and Ramailat tribes and leveraged these ties to gain support and recruits. Years of neglect and discrimination by the central government had fueled profound grievances among the Bedouin. … Wilayat Sinai also benefited from smuggling activities that originated with Palestinian militant groups in Gaza (chiefly Hamas). Jihadists used these networks to acquire weapons, funds, and recruits. Similarly, access to seasoned IS members from Iraq and Syria brought important experience and technical know-how that helped the group boost its fighting capabilities, while the IS branch in Libya and its facilitators helped smuggle captured materiel from there to Sinai.

Because WINEP is an Israel-U.S. front (which keeps secret its list of top donors and therefore must be assumed to be operating as a propaganda-organization instead of as any type of credible source), that phrase “Wilayat Sinai also benefited from smuggling activities that originated with Palestinian militant groups in Gaza (chiefly Hamas)” was written so as to deceive readers to think that ISIS in Egypt is allied with, instead of warring against, Hamas; but the reality in this particular matter might more likely have been that ISIS in Egypt was receiving weapons from the few ISIS (Wilayat Sinai) supporters in Gaza (such as was “Nour Sobhi Eissa, a young leading Palestinian militant who was arrested [by Egypt] in the Salam neighborhood”), who smuggled the weapons out to Wilayat Sinai, and NOT to think that ISIS was smuggling weapons INTO Gaza (as WINEP sought to make its readers to believe). ISIS, after all, is an enemy of Hamas. WINEP’s link there to “chiefly Hamas” is to an article of theirs that presumes jihadism to be a Shiite (chiefly Iranian) phenomenon, instead of the reality, that virtually 100% of jihadists are Sunni extremists — which is one reason why the Governments of U.S., Israel and NATO secretly BACK jihadists AGAINST Iran and AGAINST secular Sunnis such as Hamas. Furthermore, the main (biggest) source of jihadists is Saudi Arabia, which (as opposed to the leading Shiite country, Iran) is the most fundamentalist-Sunni or “Salafist,” of all nations, and leads the Sunni religion abroad around the world, and which was central to propping up the U.S. dollar as being the world’s reserve currency; so, the U.S. economy has been tied to that Government, the Sauds, against Iran.

What is clear is that Wilayat Sinai is ANTI-Hamas — just as are Israel, U.S., and NATO. I have just now Googled “jihadists against Israel” and also “Al Qaeda against Israel” and “ISIS against Israel,” and found nothing, for any of those three searches. But an article DID come up, “Why is Israel not intervening to counter the Islamic state?”, and its Conclusion opened: “Since the self-declaration of the so-called Islamic caliphate in June 2014, the campaign against ISIS has brought together an increasing number of Western and Middle Eastern countries. Surprisingly, Israel, the strongest military power in the region, has not directly intervened to counter the ISIS threat.” I also found an article “Is Israeli Intel Abetting Daesh Terror Operations in Middle East?”. (“Daesh” is ISIS.) I also found an open online forum in which one person asked “Has ISIS ever ‘denied israel's right to exist’? Israel always says that Muslims across the world deny Israel has a ‘right to exist’ but Israel is always muted about ISIS.” (And if ISIS has ever denied Israel’s right to exist, then I, too, have not seen it.) None of the respondents there even so much as just suggested that the answer was yes. However, clearly, the secular and predominantly Sunni Hamas, and virtually all Shia Muslims, say that Israel exists ONLY by ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians, neither of which is acceptable under international law — so, Israel actually DOES have no right to exist. It was created (‘legitimated’) by fiat by U.S. President Harry Truman, but was already ‘created’ physically by ethnic cleansing and thus created illegally.

On THIS basis, The Collective West, or “The West,” supports Israel’s entirely ILLEGAL invasion of Iran on 13 June 2025. (Iran is the leader among the 28 countries that DO deny Israel’s right to exist.) It’s not enough that the U.S. and its colonies (or ‘allies’) supply Israel with the weapons to exterminate the Gazans and to expell the West Bank’s Palestinians from those people’s lands. Now they’re backing Israel’s blatantly illegal invasion of Iran.

There is even a Wikipedia article titled “Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State”. ISIS hates Iran; and the most effective nation fighting against ISIS has been Iran. So, when the U.S., Israel, and NATO, back Israel’s invasion of Iran, that’s expressing what they truly ARE.

Germany, which had been the land of Hitler, is now the land that by law rejects asylum requests and immigration of anyone who says no to the question “Does Israel have a right to exist?” That anti-Semitic country equates “Israel” with “Jew,” as-if any Jew who is anti-Israel is an anti-Semite, instead of merely a decent human being who just happens to be also a Jew. The U.S. Government has imposed such a Government upon Germany and its ‘news’-media. It stereotypes “anti-Israel” as “anti-Jew,” though many Jews are against Israel — and they are NOT anti-Semites (though Germany and the U.S. treat them as-if they were).

Maybe after Israel and its Western partners will have succeeded at genociding and/or ethnically cleansing all Gazans out of their land, Gaza, the rest of the world will BDS not ONLY Israel but The West, and this not ONLY because some nations would tariff by at least 100% everything from those countries (the entire U.S. empire), but ALSO because so large a percentage of the residents of those non “The West” countries will be simply refusing to buy products and services that have been produced by companies headquartered in those countries — the U.S. empire. There are enough good products and services from the decent countries, so that doing this BDS should not be too difficult. But it would need to be internationally organized. It wouldn’t just spontaneously happen. It would need leadership.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.