So, what are my thoughts about Hamas' unprecedented attack on parts of Israel, which has resulted in hundreds of men, women and children, some of them soldiers, being killed and thousands of Israelis becoming shocked and traumatised as they have probably never experienced before?
And what are my thoughts about Israel's Zionist government's brutal and merciless counter-attack on, not just Hamas' fighters and military, but on all Palestinians and their social, economic and essential infrastructures in both Gaza and the West Bank?
The egg did not come 'out of nowhere', and neither did the chicken. Everything of substance and significance has a context which can help us to define and understand it more than we could or would be able to do, without that context.
This principle also applies to Hamas' attack on Israel, just as how it applies to Israel's subsequent and continuing attack on the Palestinians.
And so it is that Hamas' attack on Israel was a great surprise to Israel, especially in terms of the level of intensity, its unexpectedness and almost 'blitzkrieg' nature, and the number of Israelis killed, injured and taken prisoners.
All of that, it was, but the attack did not arise from a state of 'peace between Israel and Hamas and the Palestinian people.'
The attack occurred during an on-going state of Israeli attacks upon and oppression of the people of Gaza and the West Bank by various means; economical, military, social and political.
The attack by Hamas had been decades in the making and has been fomented by Israel's usurpation of Palestinian lands for over 70 years, increasing 'settler' attacks one the Palestinian people and the Israeli state stealing Palestinian lands to build more settlements.
The attack by Hamas has also occured in the face of the European Union, British and American, et al marginalisation and disinterest in acknowledging and helping to pressure Israel into coming to a just and peaceful settlement of the Palestinians' legitimate claim for having their own sovereign state in Palestine.
To be continued!
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