"Unprovoked"?? So these people just woke up one morning and decided it was a great day to attack a nuclear power that has one of the best military forces and equipment in the world just for fun, knowing that they are going to be obliterated?? So the bully is the victim?? Come on! This is exactly the kind of attitude of only looking at one side of the problem that keeps this going and pushes the other side into desperation, with only suicidal violence left as an option to be heard. Netanyahu has been laying the ground for this since he got in power, with the constant provocations, and the daily harassment of Palestinians, the border control choking and starving the people and treating Gaza like a giant prisoner camp, the promotion and protection of illegal Israeli colonies encroaching on Palestinian territory and the constant incursions of the army to protect those illegal settlers and/or hunt down "militants" with total disregard for collateral damage among civilians. What about the 230 Palestinians killed and 8500 injured since the beginning of the year?? And the dozens to hundreds killed and thousands to tens of thousands injured every year before that?? Just because you were too blind to see this coming doesn't make it
"unprovoked".
I agree with you, but you are talking the secondary issues.
Once again, this world is not perfect.
British occupation of the Indian sub-continent took centuries, but in the end, they had to leave.
The same happened in South Africa and peaceful resistance yielded the results in the present era. It took longer than the Palestinian issue.
Hamas does not have the power to protect its civilians against Israel, but it started suicide bombings of Israeli citizens and even in schools and kindergarten (in 2008).
The secular West has to step in to stop Israel from killing Palestinian civilians on the mass level.
But this pressure of the Secular West is absent in countries like India and Myanmar.
Are you not able to see to what happened with Muslims in Myanmar? Which Islamic country came forward to help Muslims in Myanmar? None.
Myanmar either killed or expelled all Muslims and captured all of their land. Israel also has the same (or even more power). Still Israel didn't go for open Genocide of Palestinians like Myanmar, while the Secular West still has enough pressure on Israel.
The secular west is indeed against extremists like Trump and Modi and Bibi. But their power is also limited and they have to face Western far right powers.
The issue is, Jihad and suicide bombing by Muslims have tweaked the Secular forces in the West, and strengthened far-right forces.
Then the issue is Muslim deny to integrate in European culture. They play double standards. They demand the right to preach Islam and convert people to Islam in Europe, but they don't give the same rights to non-Muslims to preach their religion in Muslim majority countries and to convert Muslims to their religion. They banned any criticism of Islam, and they blame criticism of Islam to be blasphemy and kill people for it.
These double standards of Muslims are gradually bringing a lot of hate against them in the West.
I just hope that Muslims also recognise their double standards, and learn to follow Secular values and give equal human rights to non-Muslims.