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Dated November 13:
The return of blood and anger
Nov 13th 2008 | GAZA CITY
From The Economist print edition
...The new cycle of violence, rocket-firing, skirmishes and economic blockade started on November 4th, when Israeli forces made an incursion to destroy a tunnel which, they say, was to be used to abduct a soldier. In the view of Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, it is not a matter of whether full-scale hostilities resume, but when.
Israeli-Palestinian violence has a way of feeding itself. But both sides may have good political reasons to try to hold back. Israel will hold general elections in February. Neither Tzipi Livni, the head of the ruling Kadima party, nor Ehud Barak, the Labour defence minister, would relish going to the polls with rockets falling on Israeli towns — and face accusations that they are soft on security.
Hamas has benefited from the polarisation brought about by years of bloodshed. But the Islamist movement may yet decide that, for now, a new round of fighting could weaken its hand in the contest with the more secular Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas.
We all now know that
Hamas Islamists fired long-range rockets at a southern Israel city on Friday after an Israeli air strike on their Gaza stronghold in the 11th day of skirmishes that threaten a five-month-old truce.
and on that same day
Hamas terrorist launched a volley of ten Kassam rockets at Jewish communities in the western Negev. Seven of the homemade missiles exploded in the rocket-battered city of Sderot. Two slammed into areas close to Ashkelon, further to the north.
And that's only one day's total.
Not very economic of Hamas to keep those missiles and rockets firing, and not very good commentary by The Economist.
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