Israel responded to the rockets with air raids, and things escalated from there. These were by every account the first rockets Hamas had fired since the 2012 cease-fire. Hamas publicly protested the assassination of its guy and responded the next morning with a barrage of its own rockets. Israel responded with several aerial attacks on rocket crews.īut on June 29 Israel hit a Hamas operative, who was not involved in rocket fire but by some reports part of the enforcement squads. The result was a sudden, drastic increase in rocket fire from PRC, Islamic Jihad and the Qaeda-style jihadis to its right. Going underground meant abandoning their earnest-but-not-always-competent enforcement of the 2012 cease-fire. When Israel began rounding up Hamas-West Bank, amid declarations from Bibi that Hamas “will pay,” the Hamas leadership in Gaza went underground and began gearing up for a renewed Gaza war that they feared - incorrectly, I believe - that Israel was planning.
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Here’s where the series of accidents and misunderstandings kicked in. Third, regarding the current mutual bombardment. Moreover, if it allows for a new Fatah-Hamas unity government with Hamas in a seriously weakened position, and a PA that can openly embrace the Quartet conditions and peace process with greater authority - including the ability to speak for and deliver Gaza - then it just might be something even hardcore doves can celebrate. I don’t know that such a roundup is a bad thing. On the other hand, it also provided cover for Israel to round up and dismantle, with barely a shot fired, a network operating in territory it controls that openly preaches destroying Israel and murdering its citizens. The prolonged, fabricated uncertainty had the collateral effect of inflaming Jewish emotions in Israel and the Diaspora, and the tension may well have intensified the resulting anger after the bodies were found. Second, the Israeli government suppressed the fact that the boys were dead, as it knew on Day 2, with the apparent motive of dismantling the Hamas infrastructure in the West Bank. As the father of a son who is the exact same age - and is in Jerusalem right now on a summer program - I can just begin to guess at the feelings. Permit me to add.įirst, the current blowup began with a kidnap-murder of three Israeli teenagers, two of them 16-year-olds who just finished 11th grade. Because it’s written for print (unlike this blog) it has limits on length, and even though the paper generously lets me run way over my limit every week, there are inevitably things left out that need to be said. The Forward has my latest column on how Israel and Hamas stumbled through a series of accidents and misunderstandings into a war nobody wanted.
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