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Jonathan Freedland's latest column in the Guardian makes a lot of the same argument:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/20/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-israel-prime-minister
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This is interesting to watch :
https://x.com/hxhassan/status/1715404424326074443?s=20
I continue to argue that Hamas are accelerationists.
The 7 October atrocities have provoked Israel into razing Gaza. I say this not to justify the response, but it was a reasonable expectation that Israel’s current Netanyahu-led government would react this way. By moving to raze Gaza, the rest of the Arab world will, in this logic, be forced to take a side - to either acquiesce in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Strip or to intervene to prevent it. Such an intervention could mean a wider war in which Israel’s existence would be at stake - and if Israel has alienated the wider world through the brutality of its response, perhaps its western backers would be less inclined to save it.
So, at least, Hamas’ logic appears to me - and Mashaal’s answers are consistent with that at least the first part of it: that this was intended to tip Israel into a far more conspicuously brutal course of action that would force neighbouring countries to take a stand.