What were they thinking? Hamas and Netanyahu have yet to explain
By James M. Dorsey
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What were they thinking?
It’s a question both Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist government have yet to answer.
Hamas and the Netanyahu government’s generic justifications of the carnage created by the group’s year-old October 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s ferocious response, including the Palestinians’ right to resist occupation and Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ do not cut the ice.
In a twist of irony, Hamas and the Netanyahu government mirror one another in their imagery of the other, their inability and/or refusal to formulate realistic…
