Dateline: Gaza Strip

Think Hamas/The Palestinians will think again before kidnapping/killing one thousand innocent Israelis?
Or is this exactly what Hamas wanted? A new generation of Palestinians and other Arabs will grow up wanting revenge.

Meanwhile Hamas's leaders live in luxury in Qatar. And count their billions in Swiss Banks. Money they stole from Palestinian aid programs and millions more from their bosses in Iran.

And Israel? Netanyahu may have wanted revenge and also ride an international popularity wave, but will this eventually backfire? It might have been smarter for them to turn the other cheek? Show the posters of the hostages around the world.

Gaza Strip today

Sidebar: Israel has a reputation as a bad negotiator in hostage trading deals, often trading hundreds of jailed Palestinians for one captured Israeli soldier, or once they even traded hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a few Israeli corpses.

Hamas might have made the October attacks simply in oder to capture more hostages, and never realized how brutal the Israeli payback would be.

How much money will the Israelis require from the U.S. to rebuild the destruction that happened because of U.S. armaments?
Diplomacy is unknown in the Slo Joe Administration.

Israel might get that money instead of Palestine since so many of those donations went to fund terrorist attacks last time?