Before the October 7th massacre, in 2023, 300 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank alone. This is an ongoing process. October 7th did not just happen in a vacuum.
I didn’t say it did.
What was the objective? Did they bother to think about October 8th? 9th? The live streaming of the murder of Americans in Israel?
Tit for tat with a bigger stronger foe eventually gets you a good slap. Not many expected this slap, but then maybe they mistook the slapper for someone else?!
Appears to have been a big mistake, UNLESS the real objective was to start a massive regional war, while America (Israel’s biggest ally) is in a precarious situation?
I was chastised about the continued re-arming of Israel by the US months ago, when being told I was a monster for supporting the U.S. export of bombs and missiles and aircraft to Israel while they pushed south in Gaza!
I dared to say that the U.S. has to maintain a strong Israel because Hamas (& Hezbollah) are impotent without Iranian finance and arms, and they have to ready to defend themselves NOT against Hamas, but Iran.
Guffaws ensued…even though Israel was already defending themselves on both (H&H) fronts.
Now, here we sit.
What, no laughing anymore at the prospect of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel???
No giggling over the possible Israeli response(s)?
The conflict in this entire region is amongst nations and peoples with exceedingly long memories, yet most of us put events into the new social media timeline context of yesterday, last week, or last month.
These people are playing multi-generational, possibly multi-century, three dimensional chess…and so far only the pawns and a few rooks, plus a black knight (or two) have being taken. Let’s see how far the kings will go to protect their queens!
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