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Every other Muslim entity in the region has played with a certain degree of cynical politics, brinksmanship, and realpolitik in order to extract leverage from various players in the region. Even Iran, notoriously antagonistic on the global stage, has obeyed a certain patient rationale in trying to shit everything up. Even here, while Iran and the QUDs are involved, the state has a certain gray-zone deniability which means it'll probably just be slapped with more sanctions atop a pile it already largely ignores.This entire cosmology of thought trickles down to EVERYTHING Muslim countries and organizations do.
Palestine, uniquely, seems to throw shit around and expect someone else to swoop in and protect them from blowback. Even Pakistan doesn't get to this level of a death wish.
I think given Bibi's position being in such peril (corruption allegations, protests against measures intended to alter the court / codify a constitution, and a general embarrassment that this happened under his watch and must have taken months to coordinate), there's no chance in hell the state blinks. Gaza is really fucking small, which matters even more when you consider how easy it is to apply drone warfare over such a small region whose electricity you can pretty easily knock out.They expect Israel to blink, like they have in the past.
This is the only line that I can really imagine they believe, even if I think it suggests they're complete idiots. They have to believe that they're going to inspire some big uprising to take them down - ignoring that Israel has a military so far ahead of their shit, with patrons whose pockets are endlessly deeper.In the process Israel might be so weak that other forces may get involved smelling blood.
The Japanese military was the product of a culture that had been exposed to propaganda essentially from birth, with absurdly strict and rigid military structures that were baked into everyday life at effectively every level. It married zealotism and patriotism effectively enough to create the never-surrender death squads.National suicide is not impossible look at the Japanese preparations for Allied invasion during WW2.
Hamas, and Hezbollah, and the PLO, and all these things - while they espouse faith as a justification, they way they're run is just so much more incompetent and corrupt and like a mob. The Japanese military had a tight ship, but most of everything that winds up in Palestine gets stolen and embezzled. They've had issues with basic utilities for decades at this point, which (beyond getting hit with stray return-fire) haven't really had to do with Israeli interference. Hamas homies just genuinely blow that cash on retarded shit.