India, Oct. 12 -- October 7, 2023 has been described as the worst day in the history of Israel from the time the country was formed in 1948. Images of the invasion by the terrorists of Hamas, euphemistically described as the "military wing" of Hamas, will forever be etched in the collective memory of the Israeli people. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ascribed a rationality to the calculations of the Hamas leadership and therefore believed that they would not commit an act of such terror as would invite a fierce retaliation by the Israeli Defense Forces. Earlier in the same role, he had supervised by 2005 a full withdrawal of Israeli forces and settlements from Gaza. In effect, he had handed over the population of Gaza to a terror g...