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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Hamas' Gamble: A Not-So-Inadvertent War

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.
Read full articlehttp://nationalinterest.org/feature/hamass-gamble-not-so-inadvertent-war-10942

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