https://www.vox.com/24055522/israel-hamas-gaza-war-strategy-netanyahu-strategy-morality

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According to Devorah Margolin, an expert on Hamas at the center-right Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the entire point of the October 7 attack was to provoke a massive Israeli response.

"The goal of that ultraviolence was to create a visceral response from Israel that would be seen as so disproportionate that the violence it carried out on October 7 was pushed to the side, and that Israel would be seen as the irrational actor," she tells me. "In that sense, I think they actually succeeded."

By inflicting mass suffering on Palestinians without a long-term plan for addressing the political consequences of their misery, Israel is playing right into Hamas's hands. The current Israeli approach is less likely to destroy the militant group than to strengthen it.

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Even if Hamas can be eradicated, Palestinian hatred of Israel and the slaughter she has inflicted on innocent Palestinians, will be long remembered.

The only way to remove the existential threat of revenge arising from that is to genocide Palestinians, flush them out of Israel, which is what Netanyahu and the far right are aiming for.

But it won't remove the existential threat of revenge, only push it slightly further away. And then there is the increased hatred Israel has engendered outside the Palestinian diaspora, amongst Arabs, Muslims, westerners and others appalled at Israel's murder and slaughter, and more so if Israel pursues genocide or expulsion of Palestinians, succeeds in stealing all Palestinian land.

Netanyahu's strategy to retain self-serving power has only made Israeli lives more dangerous, has destroyed any chance of peace Israelis have longed for.

Netanyahu and his far right junta have been the best thing Hamas and those who are anti-Israel could have asked for. He has not diminished ideological hatred, towards Israel, only increased it.

And the Axis of Evil has done itself no favours in supporting Netanyahu and his fascists, backing the slaughter and murder, Israel's war crimes.