Yana Slesarchuk: Hamas attacked Israel. Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip. Why is the Kremlin only winning from this?
Pillars of black smoke against a blue sky. People shot dead in their cars. A captured military woman filmed being dragged to an SUV. A gray-haired elderly woman unexpectedly handed a machine gun by a Palestinian fighter for a propaganda video. Hamas has made audacious claims about firing thousands of rockets at Israel and has initiated assaults on the Israeli border, including underground, underwater, and aerial attacks. What's more, even the date they chose to attack coincides with the 50th anniversary of the victorious war for Israel, making it all the more significant. This intense violence, both within Israel and beyond its borders, appears to be part of a brilliantly executed psychological operation with objectives extending beyond Israel alone.
