For Both Hamas And Israel, There Are Reasons To Escalate -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor
For Hamas, a fear that capitulation will hurt their standing more than defiance. For Israel, it's a question of making good on public threats.
Israel and Palestinian militants in the besieged Gaza Strip are veering dangerously close to getting locked into a cycle of retaliation and revenge that could run for weeks.
Though many are wondering why both sides don't simply stand down now to avoid further loss of innocent life (since, after all, it's fairly clear that a major shift in the status quo will be the outcome of the bombardments that are now in their third day), the grim logic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is convincing men on both sides that more death is what's needed now to secure their own interests.
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My Comment: For Hamas, this is the first time in over two years that the world's attention is on them and not on the Arab Spring, Libyan civil war, Egyptian and Tunisian revolution, and the ongoing civil war in Syria. As for Israel .... over 750 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel this year .... the question is not why are the responding, but what took them so long.
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