Reply #11: Nah, just shows that the international pressure had an effect [View All]

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They figured - or were told - that they have to stop before Obama's inauguration. This is as far as they got - I think they were hoping they could topple Hamas by now.

On your other point, I doubt the key leaders who were killed can be easily replaced. Someone who has been doing this for 20 years has contacts, relationships, power, and knowledge that disappear when they die. You can put in a new person in with the same title, but it takes years to learn the ropes. My conspiracy theory is that the motivation for killing people like Siam is to help the PA in the Palestinian civil war (not that this will work).