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“War” is no longer the right word for what Israel is doing in Gaza.
It happened on October 7, 2023. The world was shocked by the story—how in a concerted, well-planned surprise attack, Hamas had kidnapped 251 hostages and killed over 1,200 innocent Israelis, mostly young revelers who only wanted to attend a music festival.
It happened on October 7, 2023. The world was shocked by the story—how in a concerted, well-planned surprise attack, Hamas had kidnapped 251 hostages and killed over 1,200 innocent Israelis, mostly young revelers who only wanted to attend a music festival. The element of surprise would later be questioned, as Israeli intelligence was accused of knowing that such an attack was imminent—although anticipated to be a much smaller one—and that the IDF had not been mobilized in time.
Despite the possibility that Netanyahu—through negligence or something more sinister—had actually allowed the horror…
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