When Hamas manages to slip one of their rabid, depraved suicide bombers through and you hear the media say “what do you expect after they were provoked,” you should keep the following in mind:
Defense experts have concluded in the last two days that despite the intention of Hamas and other organizations to exact revenge for Israel’s assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, there would be no dramatic change in the number or intensity of terror attacks.
At one discussion, a Shin Bet representative suggested the Hamas has reached the limit of its capabilities at this point, meaning it undertakes the largest number of attacks it can…
That is based on the fact that for more than a month Hamas has been stepping up its efforts to conduct attacks from Gaza – both inside the Strip, as in the case of the three attacks at Erez junction, and outside, as in the suicide bombings at Ashdod port. Yassin had ordered the expanded Hamas efforts, ahead of an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Hamas had already maxed out their efforts because they were hoping to make it look like they forced Israel out of Gaza. Israel gets 95% of the attackers, but the last 5% is horrific – the point remains, however, that Hamas was already throwing everything it had at Israel.
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