Hamas’s aim may have been to make Israel look bad from their retaliation and rally the other Middle Eastern enemies of Israel. But we don’t really know yet.
Edit: Caspian report just came out with a really great video about the complicated web of relationships that may have caused it, including torpedoing an Israel peace deal. https://youtu.be/2xjmelFwJow
It’s not working though. Israel has massive support. Gaza is in ruins. Israel have the excuse and political capital to spend to completely remove Gaza from the map. If I lived in Gaza I would be disgusted with the irresponsible and atrocious actions of Hamas.
Definitely. But information was imperfect too, maybe Hamas thought Israel’s recent political turmoil over trying to weaken the judicial branch. But still a horrible action and probably a massive blunder on Hamas’ part.
If the Israeli Government reacts with the same level of proportion as they have done every time since the far-right took power there, not even the vastly superior Israeli Propaganda Machine will be able to offset the impact on anybody but the most tribalist Israeli supporters of the picture of mass graves and dead women and children that will come out of this, especially if the blockade of Gaza leads to mass deaths from thirst and starvation.
It actually makes a lot of sense that Hamas escalated things this much because of just how bad Israeli escalation will look if they maintain the disproportion of reaction levels that they’ve had so far.
The leaderships on both sides couldn’t care less about human life.
Hamas’s aim may have been to make Israel look bad from their retaliation and rally the other Middle Eastern enemies of Israel. But we don’t really know yet.
Edit: Caspian report just came out with a really great video about the complicated web of relationships that may have caused it, including torpedoing an Israel peace deal. https://youtu.be/2xjmelFwJow
It’s not working though. Israel has massive support. Gaza is in ruins. Israel have the excuse and political capital to spend to completely remove Gaza from the map. If I lived in Gaza I would be disgusted with the irresponsible and atrocious actions of Hamas.
Definitely. But information was imperfect too, maybe Hamas thought Israel’s recent political turmoil over trying to weaken the judicial branch. But still a horrible action and probably a massive blunder on Hamas’ part.
it’s possible they really did not expect to penetrate so far inside Israel.
Potentially Israel also had prior warning from Egypt.
If the Israeli Government reacts with the same level of proportion as they have done every time since the far-right took power there, not even the vastly superior Israeli Propaganda Machine will be able to offset the impact on anybody but the most tribalist Israeli supporters of the picture of mass graves and dead women and children that will come out of this, especially if the blockade of Gaza leads to mass deaths from thirst and starvation.
It actually makes a lot of sense that Hamas escalated things this much because of just how bad Israeli escalation will look if they maintain the disproportion of reaction levels that they’ve had so far.
The leaderships on both sides couldn’t care less about human life.
That’s surely it, Hamas playing 4D chess. 😂