Well that is pretty disgusting. But it is not super surprising since Israel helped fund the start of Hamas to weaken the PLO.

Seems fairly obvious. Bibi is playing the strongman trope. Domestically, corruption surrounds him. A conflict with an easily-hated enemy makes him look better by contrast. It’s the war-time leader polling bump we regularly see (though that may not be the case this time, considering the leaks on Israel knowing the attacks were imminent).

Because Israel controls the global narrative on events, this event Hamas attack is viewed in isolation rather than the broader historical context that shifts it from being a cruel insensible act of violence to that of understandable outrage after decades of oppression, poverty, and land theft.

Now they’re trying to link them to ISIS to maintain this narrative; but at the moment I don’t see it that way. Everyone knows that a little fear of a foreign threat keeps the people in line…