I personally don't know the details, but I have a friend who told me that Hamas' attack was timed to move the energy away from the actual talks that were taking (or going to take) place with Egypt - in order to provoke the response it knew it would get - especially from Netanyahu. Also, I don't think the news adequately covered the horror of the Hamas attack and hopped to the horror of the treatment of the Palestinian people... anyway, I think it's a great idea to lay these ideas out in an even handed manner.
I think there is agreement on the first point. A successful peace agreement between Israel and more Arab nations would sideline the Palestinians and Hamas.
I personally don't know the details, but I have a friend who told me that Hamas' attack was timed to move the energy away from the actual talks that were taking (or going to take) place with Egypt - in order to provoke the response it knew it would get - especially from Netanyahu. Also, I don't think the news adequately covered the horror of the Hamas attack and hopped to the horror of the treatment of the Palestinian people... anyway, I think it's a great idea to lay these ideas out in an even handed manner.
I think there is agreement on the first point. A successful peace agreement between Israel and more Arab nations would sideline the Palestinians and Hamas.