Israel is a politically vibrant state - contentious disagreement and heated debate along several fault lines. That’s awesome! But nothing unifies like an existential threat.
That being said, the areas in the south, the kibbutz hardest hit by 10/7, are also some of the most reliably left-leaning voting areas in the country. In other words,…
Israel is a politically vibrant state - contentious disagreement and heated debate along several fault lines. That’s awesome! But nothing unifies like an existential threat.
That being said, the areas in the south, the kibbutz hardest hit by 10/7, are also some of the most reliably left-leaning voting areas in the country. In other words, most critical of the nationalist agenda and most sympathetic to the Gazan situation. These were the people they chose to massacre.
It would be like BLM or Antifa attacking the heart of San Francisco or Seattle...so the political calculus from Hamas seems a bit more “gas the Jews!” than 3-dimensional chess in hindsight.
Israel is a politically vibrant state - contentious disagreement and heated debate along several fault lines. That’s awesome! But nothing unifies like an existential threat.
That being said, the areas in the south, the kibbutz hardest hit by 10/7, are also some of the most reliably left-leaning voting areas in the country. In other words, most critical of the nationalist agenda and most sympathetic to the Gazan situation. These were the people they chose to massacre.
It would be like BLM or Antifa attacking the heart of San Francisco or Seattle...so the political calculus from Hamas seems a bit more “gas the Jews!” than 3-dimensional chess in hindsight.