>>2701230>>2701242It still puzzles me that 3000 people armed with crude improvised firearms made from scrap Israeli components, forged into automatic rifles, black market Kalashnikovs, Spviet hand grenades and mortars/homemade rockets with an air force consisting of hangliders and paragliders actually terrorized a modern army and infiltrated ISRAEL! How do you invade a country more armed than the US? It was probably a commando raid. They threw in their elite fighters, then a lynch mob behind them, overpowered Israel's defenses at the security checkpoints in Gaza which were impenetrable prior, then launched lynchings, pogroms and terror attacks against the population and military.
30 people were killed from Palestinian rockets from 2008-14 (for a comparison, 12 died by Palestinian rockets on October 7). The first wave of unrest started with the Gazan border clashes where hundreds, even thousands of protesters with slings were killed with live ammunition by occupying forces. That resulted in calls for a third intifada which lead to October 7. That was what started it, I think was the protests in 2018-19. They launched rockets in 2019 that killed 4 people. The security checkpoints in Gaza and border wall with the West Bank weren't built until 2008.
And even though they weren't able to prevent heavy civilian losses because of a lack of personnel + supply issues, but Israel also shocked the world with their sheer brutal salted earth tactics they employed in Gaza and crackdowns in the West Banks + further settler incursions. So now Turkey is talking about it openly, Israel was only joined at UN meetings by the United States, almost every country has attacked them for their hideous, destructive response, and now South African president Cyril Ramaphosa (a country formerly under Apartheid and sold nuclear weapons to Israel during that time) issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and much more came from the fallout. For the first time in history, US public opinion has been swayed for Palestine in the midst of the Epstein scandal broke out involving the Mossad agent. Palestine has a higher approval rating among pollsters by 1 point (Israel won by 48 points in 2023). So even for the one country that still backs Israel, that situation is starting to deteriorate among the public. This might lead to the Ezekiel 38 / 39 war.
The biggest disaster for Israel wasn't just October 7 but what happened a year later in Syria where the war criminal Assad got kicked out by the FSA and Ahmad al-Shaara became president of Syria, shifting the power dynamic in the region towards Ankara. Now Erdoğan (REIS) is gonna rebuild the Ottoman empire after the Kurds in Iraq are finished (which the US already pulled the plug on them). Israeli oil flows through Azerbaijan. Erdoğan can undo that if the power dynamic between east and west shifts. Turkey can simply cut them off. There goes Israeli power. The safest approach for Turkey militararily is a slow siege like Israel did to Gaza.