Saturday July 16, 2011

I've Been Thinking:

On Thursday six Qassam rockets were shot from Gaza and landed in Israel. On Friday another rocket from Gaza landed in Israel.

This is a watershed. After relative calm Hamas of Gaza has permitted other groups to loft rockets into Israel. The parties who shot these seven rockets are not Hamas directly. But Hamas is turning a blind eye to their actions.

Tensions are rising and Israel has begun a response. As more rockets fall, more responses will be made. Between Thursday night and Friday morning Israeli planes hit three targets in Gaza. All were smuggling tunnels.

Israel's Military Chief of Staff Benny Gantz called a meeting to evaluate and plan responses.

There are the obvious: do nothing, bomb the tunnels, target the leaders, invade and clean house. Actions can be combined, increased, intensified, become more widespread.

Hamas has an objective. Hamas wants to push negative international media attention on Israel over the summer while Hamas and PA work out their difference and move toward a unilateral declaration of statehood in the United Nations.

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