Hamas leader says 'we have the Israelis right where we want them' in leaked messages, WSJ reports

[The Magistrate]

36. That's An Odd Statement

If Hamas leaders wanted to be martyrs, they could achieve it with a cell-phone call alone in a field.

Those they place between themselves and soldiers coming to make them martyrs are the measure of just how little these men seek martyrdom for themselves.

And it is a fact that these men view the deaths of thousands of Gaza residents as their chief weapon against Israel. Their dispositions for battle are such that Israel cannot assail them without harming non-combatants. They cannot protect the people of Gaza from Israel, they do nothing of material benefit to the people of Gaza (in fact they steal from them routinely), all they can do is do their best to goad Israel into killing some of them. Israeli forbearance would not matter, the goading would continue till forbearance fled.