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| Crown said: At the end of this war, Hamas will have to ask itself if it was really a good thing for them to do what they did the 7, given the number of deaths, the fact that it is on one leg and now that Hezbollah is biting the dust too. Israel really has no shame in what they are doing back, they are similar mentally. It is a matter of survival in the minds of both sides. They really dont care about human right. |
They have and are asking that question and knew there would be retaliation.
Here is a long comprehensive interview with Hamas form July, asking the difficult questions
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-record-with-hamas/
Hamad told me that no one involved with the planning of the October 7 attacks that he spoke with predicted the full scope of Israel’s response and that many Hamas leaders expected a more intense and prolonged version of previous Israeli attacks on Gaza. “This is a point that is very sensitive,” he said. “No one expected this reaction from the Israel side, because what happened now in Gaza, it is a full destruction of Gaza, killing about 40,000 people, destroying all the institutions, hospitals and everything. I know the situation is horrible in Gaza. It’s very, very hard. And we need at least ten years to reconstruct Gaza.”
“This war is totally different,” Hamad said. “Totally different.”
