Letters to the Editor
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I need to eat a bit of humble pie about one thing
I have spent quite a few months telling people that at least some of the rocket and mortar fire that comes out of Gaza is being done by Fatah squads, trying to provoke Israel into counterstrikes against their "arch-foe," Hamas. While there have been recorded cases of this, I have just managed to work my way round the rather badly organised web pages that Hamas and the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades put up, and I have finally been forced to accept that Hamas are genuinely proud of their rocket and mortar campaign, and have no desire to evade responsibility for it, whoever may have fired any particular one. This is especially important because of the timing, which is often clearly intended as a dismissive retort to any peace moves : today, for example, a mortar shell killed a Jewish Israeli. Finally facing up to this has put a different complexion on the issues regarding Gaza, at least for me. It has no direct bearing on any other battle-front, it just wakes me up a bit.