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Why do the militant groups in the Gaza strip think they're justified in launching missiles to Israel?

  • Statistics show that prior to Israel's attack, the frequency of missile launches from Gaza strip had started to increase. Why were these attacks made by the groups inside Gaza strip?

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    There is a quiet power struggle within Gaza, raflecting the arab spring and changing dynamic acroiss middle east  between Hamas & more hardline groups (with Fatah also involved). Meanwhile Israel had been pushing harder, with attacks across the border. The most critical was Israel's assassination of top Hamas commander Ahmed Al-Jaabari on November 14 after both sides appeared to have agreed to a tacit ceasefire deal. Add that to the splits within Gaza: different groups trying to show they are the most deserving, the most powerful. It is a mistake to think thsat Gaza is homegenous or that Hamas has complete control: it may be the most powerful group but there are plenty of others with missiles. But while Hamas craves the legitimacy it needs to assume moral leadership of the Palestinian national movement from those it considers Western poodles chasing peace with Israel, it shares Gaza with armed salafist groups intent on violence. "Hamas has been under continuous blackmail from other factions since it has been more interested in calm in order to preserve its authority in Gaza," Hani Habib, a political analyst in Gaza told Reuters. Trying to face both ways, Hamas abandoned efforts to stop these groups firing rockets at Israel and last month joined in, to show it was not getting soft in the chair of office. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/17/us-gaza-war-motives-idUSBRE8AG0GR20121117 Oh, and the election in Israel is not unrelated. As a general principle, they are trying to do *something*. It is like asking why did Polish cavaltry charge on horseback against the German tanks, or why did the Warsaw Ghetto try an uprising: intellectually they knew they'd lose but for pride, for hope it was better to do something, anything, than to surrender to crushing inevitability of humilating defeat.

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Hamas is like the annoying little punk kid in elementary school who keeps poking you in the arm on the playground at recess trying to get under your skin. One day you turn around and punch him in the eye because you are tired of him, and he goes and runs crying to the teacher who then suspends you from school.

Matthew Kane

I thought your answer was interesting because I am Polish, and I've been thinking a lot about the Gaza question in exactly the context you mentioned, which is the infamous Polish cavalry charge against tanks. I think both of the examples above might be different than the Warsaw Ghetto example slightly, because with the Nazis and Jews it was 100% clear that the intent was extermination, not just domination. Obviously, when you know "no quarter" will be given, you have to fight back as hard as you can even if seems hopeless. To martyr or make a victim or yourself unnecessarily though, I think is foolish pride, and also unwise strategically. And lastly, if you want to play the moral card, which seems like the best defense for people who get run off of their land, non-violent resistance seem like a more compelling appeal

Karolina Zajac

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