Does your son think that Oct. 7 didn’t happen? or that Hamas had a right to do the dreadful things it did?
No, he knows that Oct 7th happened.
He just thinks that the Israelis have been oppressing the Palestinians for 50+ years.
The only issue I PERSONALLY have is that I find it hard to believe that with all the intelligence gathering that Israel has that they could have let Oct 7th happen. This is down the rabbit hole thinking. That maybe they let it happen so they would have just cause to invade Gaza and take control over it.
How could they not have gotten wind of Hamas plans to attack? Did they and someone did not take it seriously?
Or, did they let themselves get attacked so that they could deal with a the Gaza problem?
They want rights to the natural gas under the Med off the coast. They want to build a canal to rival the Suez. The path would go through Gaza.
Pretty much everyone in the Middle East hates the Palestinians. They are like the Gypsies of the Middle East.
No one wants them in their country. Maybe they thought that no one would care IF they took over Gaza.
Secretly Egypt and Jordan would cheer it. Publicly, they must urge restraint.