Even as the amendment was overwhelmingly rejected, the vote underscores the anti-Israel mood within the Democratic party is growing
This kind of thing was the real goal of October 7th. I puzzled over the strategy of it for years because I couldn’t understand what could possibly be gained by an incursion that could not hold onto land and would obviously result in the deaths of tens of thousands of one’s people. I didn’t understand how Sinwar would think it would succeed.
Of course, he didn’t. He knew they were never going to get to Al-Aqsa, and that they wouldn’t hold the Otef for more than a few days. He knew what would follow. So why did he do it?
To splash Palestine onto the world’s front pages and screens, to shift the Overton window, and eventually to cause the ground to shift enough to have real consequences. Like this one.
People retroactively project their confidence the 10/7 attack would not have been successful onto messianic anti-zionist extremists for some reason but Hamas (including their friends on the American left who immediately organized to support them), Sinwar particularly, absolutely believed at the time that they would destroy Israel, they even preemptively laid out their own "day after" plans for it. What screwed them over was the miscoordination with Hezbollah.
#prev ->#like it wasn't a terrorist attack it was an invasion in a war that they expected to be joined by an invasion on another front#it's not the first time anti-zionists have bought their own propaganda about Israel being a spiderweb that will fall apart#and then miscoordinated their joint attacks and failed#end prev#yes exactly!#like Sinwar was apparently just fucking crazy. and I do not use that word lightly.#it was a religious war to him and he thought his cause was righteous and he thought god would lead them to victory.
Yeah...Sinwar wasn't some brilliant mastermind, he was legitimately deranged. People do the same thing with Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks- retroactively try to make it successful by some metric, rather than acknowledging that religious fanatic terrorists might actually do things that are evil and stupid.
