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It’s a race war. Hurting your enemy’s ability to reproduce counts.
Actually birthrate is an ongoing war between Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and Israeli Jews. Israeli families have a lot of kids (at least compared to average Americans) but not nearly enough to keep up with the Arabs. And there are a lot of Arabs inside Israel and of course in the territories. All you have to do is play the demographics out a few decades and Jews will find their majority threatened. This is why they bend over backward to get Jews to move there from around the world. Israel is proud of being a “democracy” but it’s more important to them to remain a Jewish-controlled state. It will be hard to be both when Jews are not a majority any longer.
Making life miserable for Jews so that they will leave or choose not to bring children into the world is a deliberate tactic by the other side to win this long term war of attrition.
Personally I think that’s the whole point of this attack. Palestinians cannot overpower Israel but they can prevent Israelis from ever living a normal life. Israelis live in a pressure cooker of stress and security measures even on a good day. Traffic is awful because they can’t build light rail - it would become a bombing target. No one is more security conscious than Israelis and even they are completely shocked by what has happened here. Think you can have a fun life with music festivals? Think again, says Hamas.
People might wonder what the Palestinians can possibly hope to gain with this kind of awful terrorism. But they are essentially already living in hell. They don’t care how the west perceives them either, because they’ve long since stopped hoping for anyone on the outside to help them.
I remember years ago saying to my Arab relatives “but aren’t they concerned that the world will turn against them for doing stuff like suicide bombings?” They had a good laugh at me.
No, they are in hell and they want Israelis to join them. They are outbreeding the Israelis and persistently undermining their ability to live a normal life. A lot of Israelis are quite pessimistic about the future of their country. When I planned a trip there, my Israeli friend said “oh good! See it before it’s gone!”