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...Hamas is trying to combine the mutually exclusive options of responsible governance and armed struggle. Israel, for its part, has no faith in negotiations with the Palestinian leadership and has made clear it plans to unilaterally redraw its borders; all the while, it is responding to rockets fired from Gaza with military strikes. But the sum total of all of these pressures may spell the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, leaving Israel living alongside a chaotic political entity not altogether unlike Somalia: awash with guns, broken into mini-fiefdoms ruled by unstable coalitions of warlords, and fertile soil...
...spark for the most recent flare-up was last week's tragedy on a Gaza beach, where a number of members of a Palestinian family were killed by what is suspected to have been a stray Israeli shell. Soon after Hamas declared an end to its unilateral cease-fire. Though Israeli officials might scoff at that statement - given the involvement of Hamas leaders in many previous rocket attacks against Israel from inside Gaza - the prospect of Hamas resuming terror attacks and Israeli plans for a broad offensive in northern Gaza suggest that a new wave of violence and political instability...
Furious at the killings of a militant leader and eight civilians on a Gaza beach in separate Israeli strikes, Hamas' military wing last week ended its 16-month cease-fire. Here's what happened and what it means for hopes of peace...
What prompted Hamas' move? First, Jamal Abu Samhadana, head of a Gaza security force, was assassinated in an Israeli missile strike. But it was the Israeli shelling of a Gaza beach--killing eight, including five members of one family--that united the Palestinians in outrage. Israel expressed regret, but that didn't placate Hamas' military wing, which ended the cease-fire and fired at least 15 rockets into Israel. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told TIME: "Hamas cannot stand idly by while the Israeli army kills women and children...
...School to Allston, Summers publicly embarrassed her by calling her question stupid.Summers also clamped down on faculty and student criticism of Israel. When, in 2002, professors and students at Harvard and MIT petitioned for divestment from companies doing business with Israel until the country ended its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, Summers called the petition’s signers “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” His conviction lay not in any evidence of the petitioners’ personal anti-Semitism, or of their inaction against racism in Sudan...