Periodically, new levels of the great miracles which our people experienced within the terrible slaughter which took place on Simchas Torah two-and-a-half years ago, surface to our attention. This time, these involve documents testifying to the exchange of information between top men of Hamas and the former secretary-general of Hizbullah, Hassan Nasrallah.
According to these documents, a many branched massive invasion was planned for Pesach, half-a-year before the actual attack, to attack the North of Israel. The one who opposed this plan was Nasrallah. Hamas, however, persisted in its plan. A deep political and social crisis was identified by Hamas as a very opportune chance to strike, upon finding Israel plunged in "a weakness of the Israeli society," and he sought very forcefully that Hizbullah join the battle.
Very surprisingly, Nasrallah was not convinced and rescinded from the idea. "Basically, the idea is good, logical and worth considering, but does not answer our particular goals which involve the very the scope of our actions. Do we actually expect this clash to result in a total withdrawal of the occupation? Are we actually interested in preventing Jews from entering the El Aksa mosque? This is a modest goal which does not call for war."
And thus did Hamas remain the sole promoter of its strategy for war which it executed half-a-year later, according to its original plan. Hamas believed that when war would actually break out, Nasrallah would join in and was surprised that its involvement was initially carried out with a low level of attack, a fact that enabled our military forces to organize themselves for defense against an invasion on the Northern border.
All security experts agree that had Nasrallah embraced the Hamas plan and joined the war at the very beginning, with a full involvement of the military power at his disposal, the tragedy would have been a thousand-fold greater, causing massive ruin and destruction, G-d forbid. Indeed, only recently have we discovered the bastion of Hizbullah power within the Beaufort Fortress, only a few kilometers from the northern border, where a huge array of the organization's armory was stored in preparation of an attack on Israel.
Only pure Providence and Divine mercy prevented the Shiite terror organization from amalgamating with the terrorists from Gaza in a joint destructive attack. It was not our 'might' nor our 'power' which prevented such a manifold massive massacre, but Divine compassion, in the merit of our Torah scholars and mitzvah-performers who constitute the protective barrier of the Jewish nation.
