Hamas in the Gaza Strip barely support many it is downright hateful. Even so they can rain rockets on Israel. Meanwhile, retaliatory strikes will bring the Islamists Sympathies and flush money into the cash-strapped.

“Hamas is playing a dirty game,” rages Khaled (name changed by the editor). “The Gaza Strip is your game board, and we are their pawns. They do not care if they lose a lot of us. Mainly, they win the game!”

The man who makes air his wrath is a Palestinian journalist who has spent his whole life in the Gaza Strip. A man whose family has badly suffered from the crisis and blockages of the past years, and has therefore not so much developed a fervent hatred of Israel, but to the ruling of the Gaza Strip radical Islamic Hamas.
Therefore, it also does not write better his real name. Hamas is the most rigorous action against their opponents.

If you will, Hamas aims with her current hail of missiles not only to Israel but also to men like Khaled: With their latest weapons transition the organization wants to polish up her shattered image as a representative of the legitimate resistance against Israel. By letting shoot rockets that Hamas deliberately provoke grandees Israeli air strikes. The suffering it causes is to do two things: on the one hand radicalize the war-weary people of Gaza and back into the arms of Hamas. Men like Khaled to get caught again by the rhetoric of resistance.

On the other hand, the Hamas leadership aims to increase the visibility from: The break with the Syrian regime in 2011 and the military coup in Cairo last summer, as the Generals beat the interleaved with Hamas Muslim Brotherhood from office, the extremists of their main ally deprived. “Now they want to make us civilians as long bleed front of the cameras until pities the Arab world and exerts pressure on Egypt to open its border with the Gaza Strip,” says Khaled.

Escalation in the Middle East:Money troubles plaguing the Hamas

“Hamas is deep in the shit,” says political scientist Mkhaimar Abu Sada rare in blunt language. The otherwise reticent academics teaches at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. The population of Gaza was close to open revolt against their rulers, says Abu Sada. Since the cash flow from Syria, Iran and is now dried up from Egypt, put the motion in massive financial trouble. For nine months, the government of the Gaza Strip have can no longer pay the salaries of its 40,000 officers.

Thus under pressure, Hamas had, after much hesitation admitted in early June on the formation of a unity government with the hated Fatah Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the. But the kowtow to Abbas, who governs in the West Bank, did not produce the desired result: The unity government was unable to work due to internal feuds from the beginning and could not repay the outstanding balance of Hamas. The expected improvement of living conditions in the Gaza Strip remained from that Hamas continued to lose prestige.

So the radicals sat on escalation: the kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teenagers on June 12 and the subsequent alleged revenge killing of a Palestinian youth in the past week triggered the current cycle of violence. Hundreds of missiles flew in on Tuesday night toward Israel. The Israeli government approved the mobilization of up to 40,000 Reserve soldiers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in the fight against Hamas, it was time to “take off the gloves.”

He stands inside under political pressure to respond with full force to the provocations of Hamas. So far, he hesitates. A new Gaza war would create major risks, Netanyahu reputation and even the office could cost. His foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who is pushing for the use of weapons, Netanyahu announced on Monday because of the following.

Escalation in the Middle East:Israel’s mobilization must draw no invasion by itself

The now approved mobilization to Netanyahu buy time, serve to satisfy the desire for revenge right-wing nationalist Israelis. The fact that it automatically pulls the invasion of ground troops with the associated escalation by itself, is not to say 2012, when it came to the last major slugfest between Israel and Hamas, Jerusalem was to march his troops along the coast, but agreed after eight days mutual bombardment to a ceasefire.

Whether the conflict in Gaza grows into a real war, now depends to a large extent from Egypt. President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi’ve Abbas assured on the phone that his country would push for a cease-fire between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas, it said on Wednesday in Ramallah.

In plain language this means that Cairo think about it, to make concessions to Hamas. Hamas will get involved only to a ceasefire if in return some of their demands are met. Its primary objective at the moment is to move Egypt to open its border with Gaza. If Cairo engage in it, the living conditions in Gaza, would suddenly improve – and Hamas would have their power for a while longer ensured.

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