Opinion: Why Hamas believed the status quo was more dangerous than its 7 October gamble

Opinion: Why Hamas believed the status quo was more dangerous than its 7 October gamble The events of 7 October cannot be understood outside the long history of Palestinian dispossession, occupation, siege and struggle. They cannot be examined seriously by beginning with the premise that Palestinians must justify their right to resist a system that has dispossessed them for generations. That right is not in question.