When you teach your children for 2+ generations to hate the Jews and to have every intention of killing or maiming them reflexively at the first opportunity, I would not expect such a people to produce great strategists for winning a protracted conflict that requires careful selection of where and how to battle the enemy. Rather they will go for instant gratification of their reflexive indoctrination to kill and maim with occasional pauses to ransom hostages for money.
That said, it appears obvious to me that Israel intelligence and security intentionally stood down for this attack to succeed, even going as far as to move a soft target of expendables right next to the Palestinian's border to encourage the attack and provide the media the necessary bodies (both Israeli and foreign) for outrage to take over with minimal questioning of the narrative. Once initial outrage is achieved, they move on to providing further evidences of horrific acts on Israeli settlements (also betrayed by intelligence and security stand down) with little worry of uncomfortable questions since the world is already operating on emotion and outrage.
Generations of kids taught to hate. Families paid off when sons are "martyred" for the cause. There are no innocents in Palestine....unfortunate, but true.
Solid assessment. Except Hamas leadership isn't so dumb. I guess they don't care if Palestinians suffer the consequences while they sit in Qatar with a nice payoff from the CIA.
When you teach your children for 2+ generations to hate the Jews and to have every intention of killing or maiming them reflexively at the first opportunity, I would not expect such a people to produce great strategists for winning a protracted conflict that requires careful selection of where and how to battle the enemy. Rather they will go for instant gratification of their reflexive indoctrination to kill and maim with occasional pauses to ransom hostages for money.
That said, it appears obvious to me that Israel intelligence and security intentionally stood down for this attack to succeed, even going as far as to move a soft target of expendables right next to the Palestinian's border to encourage the attack and provide the media the necessary bodies (both Israeli and foreign) for outrage to take over with minimal questioning of the narrative. Once initial outrage is achieved, they move on to providing further evidences of horrific acts on Israeli settlements (also betrayed by intelligence and security stand down) with little worry of uncomfortable questions since the world is already operating on emotion and outrage.
Generations of kids taught to hate. Families paid off when sons are "martyred" for the cause. There are no innocents in Palestine....unfortunate, but true.
Solid assessment. Except Hamas leadership isn't so dumb. I guess they don't care if Palestinians suffer the consequences while they sit in Qatar with a nice payoff from the CIA.