Things would not have gotten better without Oct 7th, there was no better history ahead where the Palestinians allowed themselves to be quietly genocided without it. It drew attention but as we've seen that attention isn't enough. In the long-run maybe the fall-out, the ICC issues and various sanctions will serve to actually catalyze a movement to isolate the zionist occupation. But we can say it has had dire consequences as well, it's accelerated the extermination and occupation campaign. Iran flinching may be looked back at as one of the biggest strategic blunders. Their flinching has not saved them, it's left them without Syria, without a way to supply Hezbollah, with Hezbollah weakened, with Hamas weakened, with their regional influence weakened, more isolated, more hemmed in from all sides. Flinching may well have doomed them to a war with the US directly that would have been devastating but as with the Palestinians the choice increasingly looks like a slow hemming in and killing which Iran chose here, their regional alliances have fallen to pieces, or striking back and risking immediate devastation. At least striking back hard would have perhaps terminally weakened the occupation entity. Their hesitancy emboldened the zionists to decapitate Hezbollah, to take a lot of other steps to put themselves in an extremely advantageous position as of this date.

Maybe there were no winning moves for the resistance.