The Hamas attack on Israel was not only reprehensible and unconscionable, but also incredibly very astonishingly stupid.
Sometimes you know it's a long shot, sometimes you think you have a better chance, sometimes the brilliant plan you had going in turns out to be perfect or incredibly wrong.
So what was Hamas thinking? Other governments have done stupid things to start and during wars - Pearl Harbor was stupid because a war with the United States that lasted more than a couple of years was unwinnable.
Did Hamas think the raid would make Israel think "Wow, they really have a credible military now, maybe we should give them what they want"? Impossible, because what Hamas wants is Israel - and especially Israelis - literally dead and gone forever.
There has never actually been a formal Palestinian "Palestine." Going way, way back it was Canaanites and Jews and Babylonians and Egyptians and Romans and Ottomans who governed that particular strip of mostly desert but extremely important - the pinch point in the Fertile Crescent - piece of land.
After World War I, when it turned out Britain lied to various and sundry Arabs to get their help, the Mandate was put in place.
Zionism is about creating a homeland for Jews; Palestinian nationalism has always been about creating a homeland without any Jews.
https://issuesinsights.com/2023/10/17/hamas-and-israel-a-thought-experiment/
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