Tuesday, July 29, 2008

My Way News - Blast rockets Hamas training camp in Gaza, 5 hurt
AP reports: "Israel and Hamas have been observing a truce that stopped Gaza rocket fire and Israeli reprisal raids. But in recent days there has been tension between Gaza's Hamas rulers and their rivals from Fatah, which is led by moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas."

Comment: Ok, now we wait to see what kind of reprisal attack Hamas will stage against Fatah. The real danger here is to Israel. Historically, whenever Palestinian infighting began to get too out of hand, one of the competing militias would attack Israel, reminding all the militants groups who their real enemy was, and then they would stop fighting each other...for a time. For Israel the strategic dilemma is how to encourage Palestinian infighting without being caught in the cross hairs. Israel needs to do everything it can do weaken Hamas while leaving Fatah with enough popular support to negotiate a peace deal, a tricky (if not impossible) proposition.

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