Hamas leaders say they waged their Oct. 7 attack on Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was slipping away, and that only violence could revive it.
Some paradigms taken for granted about Israel and the Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank, have been broken. So has the idea that Washington can ignore the Middle East.
Not only Arabs in the street but, strikingly, also their rulers nearly uniformly condemned Israel for the Gaza hospital attack and other violence affecting Palestinians.