Forgive me if my understanding of linear time is flawed but did or did not the sacking of al-aqsa and the effort to purge Sheikh Jarrah take place before Hamas had fired a single rocket
It’s this neat rhetorical trick israel plays where they pretend like organizations such as Hamas are easily separable from the Palestinian people at large (but not enough so that killing civilians can’t be justified) so they can claim that attacks that clearly come as a response to their mistreatment of the Palestinians were “unprovoked” when in fact they are a blindingly obvious application of the principle of “an injury to one is an injury to all.”
