they know the US has their back - that's the fundamental problem here - but western voters (especially youth, PoC, women etc) are waking up and are not going to stand for the status quo position regarding this issue anymore.
No western country should ever support Israel unless they agree to a two state solution, that recognizes the right of Palestinians to also exist.
Both Hamas (1200 killed in 10-7 attack) and IDF are evil (30k killed and counting, including many children). The difference is one is a stateless terror group and the other has the backing of western superpowers, that is now using the terror attack as a pretext for ethnic cleansing.
And for years Netanyahu empowered Hamas:
NPR: 'Everybody got it wrong': How did Israel fail to detect Hamas' planned invasion?
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1210076717/everybody-got-it-wrong-how-did-israel-fail-to-detect-hamas-planned-invasion
MAZZETTI: Sure. This was, in essence, a kind of divide-and-conquer strategy for Netanyahu. But it was a sort of cynical strategy by Netanyahu that was very controversial in the past, and some past ministers of his resigned over it. But it was a sort of way to balance Hamas from - with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, to sort of allow Netanyahu to say publicly, well, I have no real partners. I've got Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. They're indistinguishable. Hamas wants the eradication of Israel. And so therefore, we can never really have peace with the Palestinians. And so by strengthening Hamas, he sort of put them on the same plane as the Palestinian Authority. And it allowed him, in essence, to sort of slow roll the peace process and sort of make it - kick it down the road so there was never real pressure on him to sit down at the table and talk about a Palestinian state.
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