It doesn't matter what I think.
The question is:
1) People who initated the conflict, what outcome did they think will come? Everyone knew that overwhelming response will come from Israel. Then why did they do it? Did they have a plan, did they work out what the implication was?
2) The response is on the lines that anyone would have expected. I'm still waiting for the explanation from Hamas leadeership on what the endgame for this strategy is
They are perfectly within their scope to initiate a conflict if there is an endgame. Surely there's no such thing here.
Israel's morality or palestinian righteoushness is not the factor here. The leaders (Hamas) initated a conflict with no endgame. To me this looks like a calculation of many Palestinians dying is not a big cost to the Hamas leadership.
The endgame is freedom and independence
I've said this before, they can either act like Hindus and be cowards and slaves for a thousand years or they can fight, suffer but further their goal towards independence and freedom
Palestinians have the long term demographic advantage, they are much younger than the Jews and the population of Jews and Arabs is now equal across Gaza, the west bank and Israel
The aim is to ensure the Jews get no peace and through their monstrous actions become a pariah ,the Palestinians will suffer but they are suffering anyway but they will continue to be younger and have more children then the Jews, whilst the Jews will
Bend rules
Use Zionists
Try to control the media and they will kill Palestinians
But In the end they will still face demographic defeat, and have sheer unadulterated hatred directed at them across the world with more questions about Zionist and Zionist politicians
Let me put it in a way you might understand
In the year 1200AD if Hindus had a shred of courage and resolve and let's say fought the Delhi sultanate or Muslim armies
You would have suffered
Maybe hundreds of thousands dead, maybe more
Suffering
Destruction
But maybe, just maybe you would have saved yourself from ,800 years of further humiliation and defeat
Now ask yourself would that suffering be worth it?
Keep the Jews under constant pressure, missiles from the north
Chaos in the west bank
War in Gaza
North and South Israel empty with hundreds of thousands of internal Israeli refugees
Others Jews leaving Israel
International pressure
Countries recognizing Palestine
International institutions going after Israel
Israel becomes a pariah
And that's just the start, Israel will be hounded everywhere now
Resistance is costly, but it has to be done, it's just unfortunate Palestinians have to suffer but it won't end well for the jews