Hamas counted on Netanyahu’s big miscalculation Dartmouth, Mass.: From all perspectives, Hamas has succeeded in destroying Israel’s image, morale and standing among its former allies and millions of diaspora Jews. For Hamas, the task was to garner attention, sympathy and universal antipathy toward Israel. And if antisemitism, long suppressed, has also been awakened in the process, that is their extra victory. Clearly, the sacrifice of thousands of innocent Palestinians was not unexpected, but undoubtedly factored into the strategy. The world, preoccupied with COVID-19, financial instability and climate catastrophes, had forgotten about the dispossessed and oppressed Palestinians. Israel was forging new...