Perspective: Why Gaza hasn’t erupted into all-out war
A young Palestinian rides a horse-drawn cart on Monday in front of a building damaged during an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. By Daniel Byman Daniel Byman is a professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His latest book is “Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad.
So Israel uses enough force to keep Hamas weak and to send a message that shootings and rocket attacks will be severely punished. But it restrains itself to avoid a full conflagration. On both sides, however, domestic politics and misperceptions could spur decisions that could cause the violence to spiral out of control.
Yet the lack of an all-out conflict comparable to 2014 suggests that both sides are reluctant to escalate. Hamas’s rockets spread terror, and some death, but they aren’t a winning military strategy, and the group was quick to press for a cease-fire. Israel’s tough but calibrated military response ended the barrage without upending the government in Gaza, and provoked little international criticism .
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