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March 6, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1069138.html

Can Hamas Be Deterred?

[Ha'aretz] Steven Klein - Hamas has fired more than 100 rockets and mortars at Israel since the end of the fighting inside Gaza. Unilateral deterrence is an inherently unstable relationship. According to scholar Frank Zagare, the more risk-accepting an entity is, the more unrealistic unilateral deterrence becomes. Deterrence doesn't work if one or both of the combatants is a national ethnic group contending for power, because violence is their modus operandi for calling attention to and enlisting support for their cause. The limited war in Gaza has left Hamas more convinced than ever that it can survive Israel's worst blows.

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