What a lot of Israelis still don’t fully get, and keep paying a heavy price for, is this “rage bait” game that the Axis of Resistance plays so well. October 7 wasn’t just a random terrorist attack. It was calculated rage bait. Hamas knew exactly what it was doing, launch something so brutal that Israel would have no choice but to hit back hard and long. Why? To blow up the Saudi-Israeli normalization deal that was almost done. They wanted to drag the whole region back into conflict and put the Palestinian issue front and center again. Hamas openly wanted Gaza war. Two full years of heavy bombing and destruction in Gaza still couldn’t force them to return the remaining hostages. Then President Trump got reelected. First Trump threatened 'all hell' if Hamas didn't free all its hostages. Hamas didn’t cooperate. Then in September, Trump basically gave Israel the green light to strike Hamas leaders in Doha. Literally right after that, Hamas started to behave and handed over all the remaining hostages. Now the same pattern is repeating with Islamic regime in Iran, the real brain behind October 7. The Islamic regime actually wants Israeli strikes, just like Hamas. Every round of bombing helps them. It strengthens their narrative, rallies people against Israel, and lets them survive as a regime because the real fight stays outside their borders. For them and their proxies, “resistance” itself is the victory. They don’t really care how much their own people suffer. Rubble and hardship become useful propaganda. What they actually fear is being forced to accept defeat, normalization, and an end to the conflict on terms that weaken them. That’s why Trump’s pressure approach works better than endless bombing: it pushes them toward surrender instead of giving them the war they want. This is exactly why the Axis keeps trying to pull Israel back into the trap. And here’s what’s frustrating: parts of Israeli society fall for it again and again. After every round, memory gets reset, and instead of seeing the deliberate provocation, a big chunk of people start blaming @netanyahu , @POTUS , or US. And unfortunately, right now Netanyahu’s political rivals are pouring fuel on this very fire. They’re feeding the hysteria, hoping to ride the wave of anger all the way to victory in the next elections and take power from him. It’s the same destructive cycle we’ve seen for years. The rage bait keeps working because Israel keeps playing the game on the enemy’s terms، while its own politicians exploit the chaos for short-term political gain.