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The conversation around Palestine is changing globally, and people are finally starting to call a spade a spade, so I disagree that the situation isn't changing.

This is nothing new though. Every time the Israel/Palestine situation turns into full-on conflict, Israel ends up dominating the situation, starts catching serious media heat, and eventually chooses to negotiate some kind of armistice. Then everyone forgets, a few years go by, and the cycle is repeated.

If anything, the situation is changing for the worse for Palestine, because Hamas inherently dooms the Palestinian people with their inability to think in the long-term.

The attempts at military retaliation from Hamas only serve to boost Israeli politicians that are "tough on Hamas" domestically, and has only hurt Palestinians long-term as these politicians enact changes that hurt Palestinians (which in turn cause further Hamas reactions in a constantly repeating cycle of worse), while the hard-line approach against Israel's existence means that no foreign country is willing to expend serious effort mediating the peace process, because it's just going to be a repeat of 2000, where they'll get Israel to agree to the best possible realistic deal and then have Palestinian organizations throw it out the window. To make things worse, even the local Arab nations no longer want to stand up for Palestinians because they don't want to deal with Hamas, and many neighboring countries have straight-up chosen to side with Israel to fight Hamas because they're such a dangerous extremist organization.

In the last 15 years of Hamas running Gaza, the Palestinian people have effectively lost all goodwill in the Israeli population, the nearby Arab population, and ensured that the international powers won't even bother to try to mediate peace. Considering that they'll probably need all three to improve their situation, that's a disaster.

Failing to accept the 2000 deal was the catastrophic mistake for Palestine, and Fatah was playing the long game in an attempt to get a similar deal again, but Hamas completely ruins that plan. I don't see how this gets any better, with the Palestinian people increasingly trending towards Hamas instead of Fatah, with the population preferring to stand up to Israel short-term than to try and play the long game.

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