Israel's systematic mishandling of this conflict is partly due to the fact that it was surprised by the Hamas war, second that there is no government, third that the government which does exist is arrogant and dismissive, corroded by years of endless elections an enabling
https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1394959173222293513
Part of this is a result of the Trump era when Israel didn't need to explain anything to anyone because it had a blank check and many countries were busy doing their own Hobbesian things (like Turkey invading Afrin, etc), then there was a pandemic; Israel miscalculated
For years Israel invested in "explanation" but it has become ham-handed and stilted, lethargic and Israel gutted its own foreign ministry concentrating power in the Prime Minister's office. It doesn't think strategically except regarding the Iran threat.
It slouched into this war amid a government crisis where the opposition to Netanyahu was trying to form a government. The leadership basically shrugged their shoulders over Sheikh Jarrah, police in Al-Aqsa and then Hamas rockets and riots in West Bank and Lod and Israel.
The result is that an unprecedented level of Hamas rocket fire has been met with critique of Israel abroad that totally dismissed the Hamas threat; bashes Israel, and has actually empowered Hamas as if its actions are kind of ok.
One can listen to the stories of residents of Lod who said they called police dozens of times when there were riots and no one came. Literally the city fell into chaos, people fled, armed gangs with illegal guns were there. Once again the system failed.
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