Who Palestinian prisoners are

[Igel]

11. I go with what the Hamas leadership said was going on.

The Palestinian cause per Hamas was being ignored, Arab states were letting their cause fall off their radar. And even Sa'udiyya was probably going to have a rapprochement with Israel. At the same time, the West Bank was an issue that nobody seemed to care about.

And it didn't help that just a few weeks prior Israel had increased the number of workers allowed in from Gaza. Meaning that relations with the Gazan population were working towards acceptance and normalization.

But they were clear--the status quo was shifting away from *their* agenda and had been for well over a year so something needed to be done.

That "something" was 10/7.

What was happening in the weeks or 2-3 months prior to 10/7 can't cause the planning that started over a year before.

What Lion's Den and its pups were producing also can't be discounted.

Hamas gave their reasons. It just doesn't fit the narrative. Instead of "all the truth that's fit to print" becomes "all the truth that fits we print."

It's like what Hamas wants--an Islamic theocracy in Palestine. Those defending it pretend Hamas doesn't have this goal--or like Israel for the last 4-5 years, think that Hamas was tamed by the need to govern wisely.