Subject: Re: What happens if Biden wins ?
Because US weakness is signal to others to act, and Hamas read (correctly) that Joe Biden wouldn't exact have a spine made of iron with this.

It's not a signal to others to act if their actions don't depend on US weakness. Hamas attacked Israel on 10/7 in order to disrupt the normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia and other actors, and to try to increase their relevance in regional power struggles again. Their decision had nothing to do with US weakness, because at no point did they expect their attack to be successful enough to garner an Israeli response beyond the resources presently available to the Israelis.

Hamas planned a significant attack, but one that they expected would be far more limited than it turned out to be. They didn't plan on killing so, so many Israelis. So they didn't anticipate a full-on invasion of Gaza. So they couldn't have possibly been deterred - or encouraged - by any assessment of how the U.S. would respond to a full-on invasion of Gaza. Which means it really didn't matter who was President of the U.S., because the U.S. wasn't relevant to their planning or decision to attack.

It's not always about us.