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From: S. maltophilia	8/22/2025 11:48:15 PM
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.... Of the two, paradoxically, Fatah has the more militaristic pedigree, and Hamas was the latecomer to violent struggle. Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who designed the October 7th operations, in this sense bore more in common with the Fatah of old than with the Muslim Brotherhood of today. October 7th was entirely unforeseen and wholly unsurprising. Little about it was original: not the violence or thirst for revenge; not the focus on Gaza; not the attempt to kidnap Israelis; not the goal of releasing Palestinian prisoners; not the aspiration that it might trigger more sweeping regional change; not the overwhelming Israeli response much of the world views as disproportionate and most Israelis perceive as necessary; not Israel’s methodical, systematic assassination of any Palestinian it deems complicit; not the labelling of Israel as a colonial state, of Zionism as racism, of Palestinians as modern-day Nazis; not America’s collusion, confusion, and impotence. This latest iteration of the conflict was also among its most primitive. Now shorn of the pretense... newyorker.com archive.ph

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