Yuval Noah Harari

Also, the agreements with the Palestinian Authority held.

It did not join Hamas.

not the peace agreement, but the relatively cordial relationship with the Palestinian citizens of Israel held.

Hamas hoped that they will all rise against Israel.

No.

On the 7th of October, Palestinian citizens of Israel, the overwhelming majority,

stayed loyal to the country.

Many of them came to serve.

Many of the doctors in Israel are Arabs, are Palestinians.

They all went to the hospital to take care of the injured.

Hamas itself did not betray any agreement with Israel because it never signed any peace agreement with Israel.

So of course you can say, ah, the peace agreement with Egypt held because Egypt was afraid of Israel's military force.

But this is only half the explanation because Israel had overwhelming military force compared with Hamas and Hamas still attacked it.

So I'm not saying Israel should dismantle its army.

But it's better if you have both a strong army and a peace agreement than only one.

And yes, Israel is living in a very, very problematic, difficult neighborhood in the world.

You know, it's one of the only countries in the world that for most of its existence has

Many of its neighbors, if not most of its neighbors, simply refused to acknowledge its right to exist and openly said that they are going to destroy it.

There are almost no other cases like that.

So it has been in a very difficult situation since the moment of its inception.