Saturday, November 17, 2012

Is Hamas Provoking Israel?


a well written article about Hamas’ ambitions in its struggles with Fatah (PLA) and Israel and Hamas’ strategy in the current confrontation with Israel.

While there are many who believe Israel wants war because of an impending election, many others believe that Hamas is seeking to provoke Israel to go to war and very much wants Israel to respond as it has done, and even to invade.

At the time of the last war between Israel and Hezbollah, there was considerable information to suggest that Hezbollah wanted Israel to attack and invade southern Lebanon.

This is obviously a dangerous situation and not one likely to improve soon. Israel finds itself in a bit of a Catch-22.

Things are a bit more complex than they might appear at first blush.