Longer-term demographic trends add to the febrile mix. Within Israel, Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence agency, had warned that violence between settlers and Palestinians risked emboldening Hamas. How could up to 1,000 Hamas fighters plan and then breach IDF defences, without the fabled Israeli intelligence seeing the attack coming? The scale and the sophistication of the assault, including use of high-tech drones, suggests Hamas received outside support. Second, as the fightback begins, Israelis are already engaged in soul-searching. From there, Hamas will seek to open up wider fronts against Israel, coordinating with Hizbollah in Lebanon, in order to stir Arab unrest across the region. While Israel has indulged in five since 2019, Palestinians haven’t been allowed to vote in 17 years. This is exacerbated by the perpetual postponement of elections. The 87-year old is too discredited among Palestinians to stand up to Hamas (let alone lead any serious negotiations with Israel). Palestinians in Nablus and other cities cheered the Hamas attack, while PA President Mahmoud Abbas blamed it on Israeli oppression. Hamas will hope to escalate the bloodshed, by drawing in fighters from discontented Palestinians in the West Bank – who loathe the Palestinian Authority (PA) – and spur an intifada-style uprising against Israeli forces and settler communities. The assault was designed to show Hamas’s capacity to hurt ordinary Israelis – even if it invites lethal consequences for Palestinians in Gaza. Amid gut-wrenching accounts of young people fleeing gunmen, who paraglided into a music festival in the Negev desert, and the cruel parading of women, children and the elderly by terrorists, Israel declared: “This is our 9/11.” As the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launch a counter-attack in the Gaza strip, complicated by the capture of over 100 Israeli hostages, the impact on the region is becoming clearer.įirst, like the Egyptian surprise attack in 1973, six years after Israel routed its neighbours in the Six Day War, Hamas’s immediate objective is to shatter the notion that Israel can live in peace. We hope this will be a fun and informative adventure, and that you'll join us for the ride.Hamas’s shocking attack at the weekend inflicted the worst casualties on Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The first edition will hit your inbox soon, featuring a special report about the recreational cannabis program at White Earth Nation - one of two Minnesota tribes allowing sales of marijuana flower in the state. If all of this sounds interesting (and you're 21 or older), please subscribe to Nuggets here. Subscribers will be required to affirm they are 21 or older when they sign up, like visitors to an alcohol or cannabis company's website do. Nuggets is intended for readers who are old enough to legally purchase and consume cannabis products in Minnesota. We'll chronicle the evolution of the industry in Minnesota, and accurately report what data and new studies tell us - or don't.

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