October 7 was not the reason

There were two things expected before Oct. 7, 2023: that Hamas would carry out military operations and that Israel had a list of regional targets it intended to destroy. What happened simply gave Israel the license to carry all of that out at once. Of course, Hamas is to blame for the collapses and tragedies. First, its attacks were a massacre of massive scale by Palestinian standards, with children, women and civilians among the targets.

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