Medhurst is getting carried away.
One lesson of the 'war on terror' years is how good the western intel agencies are. They were all over 9-11, and they called the Afghan war for the Taliban around 10 years before the fall of Kabul.
IDF spokesman compared this to Pearl Harbour..so i guess we are on the New 'New Pearl Harbour'..(another one they were all over.)
Powerful factions inside and outside the conflict zone and on both sides wanted escalation and got it via pograms, mosque attack and now this.
My guess is that both sides are acutely aware of military/economic crisis in nato. 'Israeli' side presumably feel the clock ticking on the greater israel project as the hegemon declines. On the 'Palestinian' side they may think that the only army nato can field getting obliterated on the russian steppe changed the game. Weaponised (and selective) liberal outrage no longer can no relied upon to carry the day..
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