Hamas Bets On Israeli Sympathy, Promises To Attack Later

Like violent tantrum-throwing children, the Palestinians know that Israel will never really let them suffer the consequences of their own actions. No matter how much food Hamas throws on the ground from their high-chair, Israel will eventually sigh heavily and wipe it up. Even though everyone knows that Hamas will eventually go back to murdering Israelis:

Like Gaza’s residents, Hamas too is worried by the possibility that Israel will close the border crossings. But when Israeli and international human rights groups started worrying this week over the possibility that food supplies in Gaza could run out within a month, Hamas realized that the Israeli government would not be able to sit back and allow for the starvation of more than 1.3 million Palestinians.

Because honestly, why should the Palestinians have to suffer in any way for decades of nursing the most vicious kind of radical extremism – and then electing terrorists running on a platform of genocide? That would be downright churlish. Forget the small fact that Hamas is promising to go back to attacking Israel as soon as they get on their feet:

But all this doesn’t mean that Hamas has given up fighting Israel. “Hamas will act against Israel, inevitably,” predicts Salah Bardawil, one of the movement’s leaders in Gaza. “If you continue to oppress us economically or security-wise, it will only result in a reaction on our part, and no one will benefit from that. Our goal is to stabilize the internal situation in the Strip and to resolve the residents’ troubles.

Hamas: “Close the borders now and we’ll try to attack you now. Spare us from the consequences of our own actions and we’ll attack you later.” In international humanitarianism parlance, this is known as “legitimate Palestinian aspirations”.

References:
* Shock, awe and dread [Ha'aretz]

Previously:
* What’s All This Talk About A "Hamas Coup"? Hamas Was Democratically Elected To Control the PA, Remember?
* Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win
* Decades Of Internationally Sanctioned Vicious Resentment Have Turned Inward

Cross-posted to:
* Israpundit

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