Maybe. My point was that I like to keep actions based on what we know, rather than what we think we know. Specifically we do not know how much actual control Iran has over Hamas or Hezbollah.

We have little idea how much control the US has over Ukraine or Israel, and we are funding both of them massively.

I'm not a terrorist and (I hope) I don't share their mindset or motivations. From a non-terrorist point of view I agree that the Hamas actions on 7 October seem not to be in their best interest.

On the other hand, Israel's non-stop war crimes and genocide in response have brought the Palestinian cause to the front pages with the Palestinians NOT as the 100% "bad guys."

Eisenhower once said (I paraphrase) that if a problem seems unsolvable, widen it. Maybe Hamas realized that following current trends, they would slowly be snuffed out by Israel, and their only hope for "victory" is for a wider mid-East war.