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They were ecstatic about that, along with the response of the media, the UN and their ability to win the information war.

Again, not relevant to their pre-attack decision-making.

I disagree. Trump in office means less leverage for Tehran and less emboldening of its proxies. Hamas waited 2 and a half years to act; this was after the Abraham Accord deals started going nowhere after Biden prioritized dealing with the mullahs instead of continuing the momentum in the Middle East.

You have it exactly backwards. It was the progress that was being made in knitting together Israeli-Saudi relations that prompted Hamas to act. Israel and Saudi were getting closer to forging new economic and diplomatic relationships, building off the success of the Abraham Accords. It was specifically the threat that KSA might join the UAE, Morocco, and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel that got Hamas to act.

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