Yuval Noah Harari

But the question is, you need power, okay, what do you do with your power?

Israel is an extremely powerful state.

It can use its power in different ways.

It can try to use its power, for instance, to establish better relationships with the Palestinians.

If you look, for instance, at the way that Israel is treating the Palestinians, not in Gaza, but in the West Bank, there is no security justification for that.

They did not attack Israel on the 7th of October.

And by its actions,

Israel is making the chances that there will be a peaceful agreement with the Palestinians is decreasing.

And it can use its power.

You know, it cannot force the Palestinians to make peace against the will, but it can take many actions that will make this more likely, easier.

Yeah, I think Israel is making a big bet that Stefan Miller's worldview will prevail, that the world will be a place in which force is the only thing that matters, and Israel will be the champion, one of the champions, of this worldview.

And this is the bet that the Netanyahu government is making.

Now, you know, with regard to the bet that Sinoir made, that Hamas made, leave aside the question of justice for a moment.

Just in terms of effectiveness, Sinoir had an amazing victory within his grasp, and he lost it just because of his cruelty.

On the 7th of October, what happened?

Hamas managed to secure a stunning military victory over the IDF.

And to humiliate Israel and the IDF,

And they needed to do just one small thing, big thing, different in order to achieve a much bigger political and geopolitical victory.

And this one thing was just spare the civilians.

Imagine an alternative 7th of October in which Hamas does exactly the same thing, but instead of killing or abducting the Israeli civilians, they hold them