Hamas undertaking a broad military buildup, Israeli study finds

The reason Israel invades Gaza is because Hamasistan keeps attacking Israel. If the attacks stoped, so would the invasions. Idiots.

Hamas undertaking a broad military buildup, Israeli study finds - International Herald Tribune: "He said that some of the assertions in the study as described to him were correct but misunderstood. The training abroad, for example, was for police and administrative skills, not for combat, he said. 'It is a fact that our defensive tactics are developing and it is not a secret,' he said. 'But such tactics can be learned from books and the Internet.'

Israel is engaged in an internal debate about whether to pursue a truce with Hamas, whose charter calls explicitly for Israel's destruction but some of whose leaders say they want a mutually agreed period of calm. The study asserts that any kind of truce would allow Hamas to build its military structure further although it also says that Hamas's big worry is that Israel will reinvade Gaza and that such a concern is one motivation for the buildup.

A senior Israeli official in the prime minister's office said what he took from the report was that when there is relative quiet in Gaza, Israel runs the risk of playing into Hamas's hands by allowing it to continue its military buildup."