Hamas' Gamble: A Not-So-Inadvertent War
07/24/14
Michael Horowitz
Terrorism, Security, Defense, Palestinian territories, Israel
"Hamas’ rockets and tunnels were the last cards of a movement that rapidly ran out of options and became desperate."
As IDF ground operations continue in the Gaza Strip, along with increasing violence and death tolls,
following several infiltration attempts and unprecedented salvos of
rockets fired toward Israel by Hamas, the umpteenth escalation can no
longer be described as an “inadvertent” war. Two instances of heinous
killings, one by a rogue Hamas cell resulting in the death of three Jewish teenagers, the other involving Israeli extremists who killed one Palestinian youth, led to the assessment that the conflict was unintended,
prompted by two unpredictable crimes. Yet, while the initial murder of
the three Jewish teenagers and the subsequent killing of the Palestinian
were not planned by either side, it is becoming increasingly clear that
Hamas did indeed prepare this not-so-inadvertent war.
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