Ok, now please, think. If Hamas, after almost a year of war, say themselves, that they can see, that they have almost disrupted the normalization of Israel. And they then make an atrocity to maximise the disruption. Then what is their aim?

It was not by accident, that exactly the child that had parents that spoke at the DNC, Democratic national congress, was killed.

Why would they do that? To provoke. What is it that they want to provoke? Mayhem, disruption of alliances, and general discord.

What will that lead to? The weakening of the alliances of not only Israel, but also the Arab nations, that so far have been allied with the US.

If they manage to attain that goal, just imagine the victory for them.

That is what they are aiming for now. In the beginning, they had no idea, that they would get that far.

The fact, that they have gotten this far, is due to lack of coordination and understanding of the goals of the war from the Israeli side.

No one really knows what we are fighting for, the goal of the war.

So in this situation, we leave the initiative to the enemy that in this case is a small rebel force, that has only a few hostages to work with.

The fact, that they almost tore down the entire US alliance in the Middle East is astounding.

The fact, that the Israeli side still have not realized their aim is equally astounding.

The only way we get out of this quagmire for real, is if we keep the alliances, because, that is the real victory goal.

I know that the hostages are equally import. Yet from a super strategic point of view, that we really need to get onto, that is the victory goal. To keep Israel safe, we need to have allies and make things with them to our mutual benefit.

That is the bare boned simple truth, right there.

G-d bless the will for Israel to survive.