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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Trigger
Both sides seem to have been at some level preparing for this for a long time. There is a sort of fatalism in Israel about the occasional need to go into Gaza and deal with resurgent Hamas. Once the back and forth got underway, both sides then had very quickly high sunk costs or at least they perceived it that way.