jeremy scahill, your response?peaking with hamas officials, talk about their response. >> let's remember that in may 2021, israel engaged in an 11 day heavy bombing campaign against gaza. at the heart of that was the attempt to evict people from the jerusalem -- occupied east jerusalem of shaikh jarrah as well as clashes at the al-aqsa mosque the netanyahu government was effectively allowing israeli settlers and others to come in and abuse the palestinians, defile the holy site. hamas and jihad launched a series of rockets into israeli territory. about a dozen israeli citizens were killed. netanyahu responded and several palestinians were killed. joe biden was early in his presidency, fully endorsed that but did eventually say, ok, the runway is up. he called netanyahu and two days later netanyahu engages in a brokered ceasefire with egypt. in the two years between those airstrikes in 2021 and the launch of al-aqsa flood on october 7, hamas was watching the biden administration. they watched how biden picked up the