@LesterB99 I think the goal, from an outside perspective, is for the response to be something like the last salvo. But it's far from foreordained. Israel has been historically stupid, but it ought to have seen that the "Abraham Accords" strategy was working to marginalize the Palestinian problem, and shld have worked to restore the status quo ante, rather than rendering itself a global pariah. In the name of "deterrence" (but really something more emotional), nation states often do dumb things.