So what are you proposing? Are you saying Hamas did not perform the October 7 attack? That they were mind controlled? Or … ? This feels like over the top conspiracy theory.

To me it’s obvious where blame lies. Gaza residents voted Hamas into power, despite Hamas’s vile charter pledging erasure of Israel and Jews and so on. Hamas then spent more than a decade launching tens of thousands of rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel.

The mass murder and rape of October 7 was completely in character for Hamas. And for people saying Hamas isn’t the same as the residents of Gaza - look at footage from October 7 where the streets were full of Gazans cheering as the dead naked bodies of women, with blood on their genitalia, were paraded through Gaza city.

All of this speaks to October 7 being exactly an attack launched by Hamas of its own volition, with the support of Gazans.

As for this:

> Anyone who's been to and seen the Gaza border knows how impossible it is to cross - unless of course there was some inside permittance.

They used paragliders. This is well known. They don’t have to climb walls with barbed wire if they fly over them.