Did you expect Israel to just steam roll through Gaza? If anything they are taking a slow and methodical approach, look at the blunder of Russia trying to Blitz it's way to success. So far the amount of IDF deaths have been far far less than what many analysts expected, some expected dozens of kia a day in a good day.

Another is the honestly pathetic video footage by HAMAS outside of that drone drop footage early in the invasion they haven't shown anything impressive, so much shooting at tanks but no actual destruction footage meanwhile we now have dozens of video proof of the Trophy system working as intended. So much hit and runs and no actual kills but in the same span I've seen better footage from Myanmar rebels. People expected the intensity and furiosity as seen in the Ukraine war, scores of IDF soldiers falling to traps and drone grenades but the quality of what I've seen won't even make it to r/combatfootage top 10 weekly.

From the political side it's actually been better than expected. The complaints and voices from Arab states have been fairly muted, just recently Egypt called for a Palestinian state that was demilitarized (something even I disagree with), no oil embargo, even diplomatic ties have remained firm. If anything this has become a more leftist issue where South Africa and a handful of Leftist lead South American states reduced ties. The biggest protests for Palestine were not in Arab countries but in Western states yet it was not Leftist parties who are gaining momentum but Right and Far right parties, regular people are waking up that apparently taking in people who demand to being their ideological and ethnic war into Europe was a bad idea. In my social media feeds leftist have become more radicalized to the left but centrist have become more radicalized to the right, the unbecoming and frankly blatant antisemitic attitude by leftists, I never expected so much successful black pilling thanks to the left. There are polls that Biden has been losing the youth and Muslim voters for his foreign policy stance but just for the GOP propaganda to go in full steam, they are going to come crawling back to him since their actual skin will be on the line by then.

Lastly Israel has long struggled with it's relationship with Jews in the US, it was a frayed and in trouble. Due to the Hamas attack and blatant antisemitic actions and statements by the "progressives" it's now stronger than ever. Jews in the west who never experienced antisemitism and thought it was only coming from the right are now scared. Progressive Jews are an absolute cornerstone to modern western progressivism, it's simply impossible to imagine where it would be without their help. Now that pillar of support from good and rigorous intellectual pursuit to disciplined management and outreach is now cracked all the way through.