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In reply to the discussion: Holy Crap!!! Are you shittin me.... the 3 dead Israeli kids [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)The main political branch appeared to be working hard on a 'unity' government, and had geared down its own militant activities and even been trying to police the rocket firing of unaffiliated militants. But such a shift would likely have impacted the power of militants within the ranks. So it was always a possibility that some Hamas militants had gone rogue to deliberately sabotage the unity government and rebuild the power of the militant wing. But the same could be said of any militants who didn't approve of the notion of Hamas abandoning military action and wanted to continue to see violence, as you note above. Or some sort of 'sting' operation, reminiscent of the recent report that most of the foiled 'US terror plots' actually involved US federal agents goading people into committing crimes so they could be arrested.