>>510351678 (OP)Trump had done a lot of work to get countries in the region to recognise Israel and start formal diplomatic relations (rather than unofficial back channels). This continued under Biden (just like how Trump is continuing the war under Biden).
This is bad if you're a Palestinian. Not in a dramatic sudden way, but aside from a few players like Iran, they were losing support and Israel would get to slowly digest them. Like how you see with the settlements on the West Bank. It's house by house, a gradual kicking out of people, never enough to draw headlines, but a slow and methodical erasure.
Gaza, despite it's problems and difficult position (being right up against the border with Egypt and being penned in, has the advantage that they still have some self determination and self government.
>but Israel had this grand plan of funding Hamas!They did that specifically to split up the resistance into two major groups. It makes it much easier to manage for Israel. Plenty of people come to power, like Ghaddaffi was groomed by British intelligence to be their guy but at some point, when he was in power, he went his own direction and then became a pariah. A similar thing happened with Sadam. So it doesn't imply that Hamas is still controlled today, they can very well say "your money has been important to us" and turn on the people that funded them once they get power.
The reason why Sinwar did what he did, was he felt it was a "now or never moment". They knew Israel would overreact. They hoped that by getting hostages they could use them to negotiate the release of their political prisoners and so on. But more importantly, it would expose their evil. I've never seen anything like it, it basically revealed all the kosher right for what they were, and there was no "hiding place" for them because they all had to come out and try to defend killing children with a straight face. If it didn't happen at this rate, Palestine would be the frog that boiled slowly.