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To much of the outside world, Hamas\u2019s decision to murder hundreds of Israelis and trigger a war that has since killed many thousands of its own people looks like a historic miscalculation \u2014 one that could soon result in the destruction of Hamas itself.\nHamas\u2019s leaders, however, say that it was the result of a deliberate calculation. Ben Hubbard, the Istanbul bureau chief for The New York Times, has been reporting on their decision, and what went into it.