as of this Friday AM - Israel is under rocket attack again .... the negotiations are going nowhere fast .... Hamas wants their rocket supply route re-opened before anything else .... talk about Israel just biting the bullet and occupying Gaza and forcing Hamas out permanently ....
We can only wish that could happen. Hamas, like the Taliban, ISIS, and the rest of those "organizations" do not hold lands. They migrate and slither over the world trying to impose their will wherever they go. It's like playing whackamole with armed moles.
Sure.... 2004 Hamas is a Creation of Mossad 2014 How Israel helped create Hamas - The Washington Post " It also obscures Hamas's curious history. To a certain degree, the Islamist organization whose militant wing has rained rockets on Israel the past few weeks has the Jewish state to thank for its existence. Hamas launched in 1988 in Gaza at the time of the first intifada, or uprising, with a charter now infamous for its anti-Semitism and its refusal to accept the existence of the Israeli state. But for more than a decade prior, Israeli authorities actively enabled its rise. At the time, Israel's main enemy was the late Yasser Arafat's Fatah party, which formed the heart of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Fatah was secular and cast in the mold of other revolutionary, leftist guerrilla movements waging insurgencies elsewhere in the world during the Cold War. The PLO carried out assassinations and kidnappings and, although recognized by neighboring Arab states, was considered a terrorist organization by Israel; PLO operatives in the occupied territories faced brutal repression at the hands of the Israeli security state. "
The important thing to remember about Hamas, is that it was created by the Israeli Mossad to counter Yasir Arafat resulting in decades of "blowback" also known as false flag terror.