A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about my initial thoughts on the ongoing Israel-Palestinian war. It went over the basics, such as how this attack by Hamas exposed the real mediocre nature of Israel’s allegedly hyper-competent intelligence services and armed forces. To be fair, anyone familiar with the serious real-life limitations of those institutions and that particular country would not have found this outcome surprising- but many wanted to believe their shiny propaganda. That post also briefly touched on how Hamas had likely calibrated this provocation to produce the direct and indirect effects, which we are now seeing- not just in Israel. With that in mind, let us expand on it and see how the Hamas attack on October 7th was tactical and strategic genius.