A pair of Middle East experts in the Bay Area explained the timing of the assault and what the terrorists hoped to accomplish.
The Hamas attacks on Israel were swift and brutal, but they were not without intention. When Hamas fighters began pouring into Israel, it took a country, that has always been proud of its security apparatus, completely off-guard.'I think the Israelis were very much caught by surprise by the really far reaching and extensive nature of this operation,' said Stanford professor Allen Weiner. 'And so, we are seeing Israelis say, this is their 9/11.
I've studied terrorism my whole life, I've never seen scenes like these,' said Hassner. 'In so far as they're rational, their goal is to shake people up.'The Israeli response has been swift and violent, targeting buildings thought to house Hamas operations. In the wake of this, hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been killed or wounded. And Hassner thinks that's what Hamas wants, to provoke Israel into killing a large number of Palestinians in retribution.
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