This starts to answer the questions Ive been asking all day. Amir Oren makes a couple of important points. The first one is this: Hamas didnt fire the rockets that purportedly sparked the renewal of fighting: If Deif was surprised on Tuesday by the assassination attempt against him from the air, it is a sign that he was surprised by the renewed rocket fire at Israel, because while the fire was carried out under his orders, he would have gone back into hiding. His second point is that in his assessment it is more likely that not that Israeli did not stage a fake rocket attack: In the past, more than 30 years ago, there were military and diplomatic Israeli officials who were not averse to staging an incident in order to have an excuse to respond to it, with a pre-planned operation. Assuming that the times have changed, that the leading personalities are more cautious and that secrets quickly expose, the so-called rebellious Palestinian organizations played in to Israels hands with the renewal of fire, without informing Hamas in advance so that its leaders would manage to disspear from sight. [Translation is wrong here, IMO it should be military and political senior leaders, not military and diplomatic Israeli officials ] haaretz/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.611495
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:34:44 +0000
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