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Source: http://time.com/2973658/israel-gaza-hamas-war-operation-protective-edge/
How Long Can Israel's Air Campaign Go On?
(Time) Karl Vick - "This is not a classic Arab-Israeli conflict, where it goes on for a couple of weeks and then the great powers intervene," said Dore Gold, a former Israeli U.N. ambassador who now heads the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Hamas, he noted, is not only listed by Europe and Washington as a terrorist organization, it also lacks backing in the Arab world, which is preoccupied with sectarian divisions and leery of its Muslim Brotherhood roots. Its political weakness moved the militant group to make the concessions required to complete a long-promised unity government with the secular Fatah faction led by Abbas, but the deal has failed to produce any evidence at all that "bringing Hamas in to the tent" would moderate its behavior. "They're not acting like a terror group on its way to governing," Gold said. "They're behaving in the worst possible way."