To engage in an act of mass terrorism by indiscriminating killing hundreds of helpless Israeli civilians at close range is appalling enough. But to unapologetically kill scores of people of other nationalities in the same manner takes it to another moral plane. And holding foreigners as hostages takes the cake. That is likely to become the main story as the drama unfolds. Gaza is now effectively a crime scene, not an outdoor prison.
Will King Salman and MBS be impressed by this act of unrefined brutality by an ideological group that they already despised? Don’t bet on it. It’s going to take a whole lot of scenes showing dead Palestinian civilians to make them turn away from their negotiations with the Israelis.