Israel was in the process of reducing Palestine to ash so they could pave over it long before Hamas even existed, let alone before they broke through the gates.
The attack just gave them the excuse to do it faster.
The reason AIPAC works so hard to pack Congress with ghouls, why the ADL labels everything and everyone 'antisemitic' should they have the gall to criticize an apartheid government along with its supporters, why the US spent so much time associating brown skin with terrorism... is because if people could see what Israelis are doing to Palestinians with a sober head, they would be horrified.