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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Educate me please.
So Palestinians are essentially cut off from supply routes and trapped. Supplies are already running low (apparently). Why would Hamas have put themselves in this position? Couldn’t they have seen this coming, or are they expecting help from other countries?
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It's hard to say. Could be:
1. Hamas is out of touch with reality. They actually think they can win. They believe the fanatical rhetoric they spew about holy wars.
2. Hamas doesn't think things through.
3. Hamas is worried about their future and is desperately holding onto power.
4. Hamas has actually, in the past, garnered all sorts of sympathy from their tactics. Attack Israel until it reacts, hide your military infrastructure amongst civilians, depict Israel as the bad guy when your civilians eventually start to die. It's their game plan.
5. These has a lot to do with geopolitics and outside forcing influencing Hamas. The Russians are stirring up crap everywhere. The Russians and Iranians both dread an Israeli/Saudi peace deal, which, about a week ago, seemed imminent.
Probably a combination of the above.