Hamas is acting as if Israel is no longer what it used to be
The Jerusalem Post by Seth J. Frantzman 18 February 2025

Extracts:

• 'Old' Israel would never have let 07 October 2023 happen

For Hamas, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy

It attacked on October 7 because it assumed it could get away with murdering more than 1,000 Jews, the most killed on any day since the Shoah

Exactly right! Hamas assumes Israel today is not the Israel of old when Israeli leaders would never have let,
1. their kibbutzim be overrun by terrorists
2. and their soldiers carted off to captivity

Hamas looks at Israel today and it consults with its backers in Doha, Ankara and Tehran and it assumes the changing world order means thatSadly.... true Israel is not the Mighty, Powerful, Fort Knox Secure it was