Perhaps, Hamas, Israel, and the rest of the world did not in their wildest imagination perceive that the blitzkrieg launched by Hamas on October 7th, 2023, puncturing forever the myth of invincibility of Israeli military apparatus, would last so long and that the toll of human lives would exceed 60,000 people. Even the daring minds couldn’t have imagined that the killing fields of Gaza would make the holocaust look so small an act of atrocities.

As a student of history and politics, it fails me to fathom what actually the Hamas leadership expected when deciding to launch the attack — Israel would surrender and acquiesce? Retaliation was writ large on the anvil of expected response. It was/is no surprise that the response has been lethal and murderous. Was this response unexpected? No. Only the politically naive would have thought that Israel would sit back, twiddling its thumbs, debating whether to strike back or not. The response was inevitable. “War makes rattling good history; but peace is poor reading.” (Thomas Hardy).

Will history classify this as a misadventure of Hamas, or will it be kind and generous to allow recording that the required support from the expected quarters to this war let them down badly? Irrespective of how the pages of history will be filled, it is a reality that Israel was provided with an opportunity to indulge into wholesale genocide of innocent men, women, and children.

The ruthlessness exhibited in killing young infants, children, men, and women is despicable and abhorrent. The entire humanity stands in shame. The TV footages/clippings show how inhumanly the........

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