You've nailed the exact reason why Hamas keeps doing what it's doing. They don't want a sovereign state, unless it's by their own terms, which is why they keep starting these pointless wars with Israel.
Everybody wants a sovereign state. Nobody wants to live under the boot of some foreign power that keeps stealing land from you.
Nothing I can track down on short notice, but about a year or two ago there was a slew of articles in the Israeli press about organized criminals being indicted on smuggling and bribery charges for trafficking in stolen goods across the Gaza border. Later on in 2012 there was a similar issue -- accusations from locals, mainly -- that the smugglers had started moving Ecstasy out of a source in Gaza. I never did get to the followup on that story (assuming there was one) but there wasn't much of a concern that it had anything much to do with terrorism. The subtext, actually, was that criminal elements on both sides of the border were profiteering off the war zone.
I'm not even sure the Republican Guards would be AWARE of it as an organization if they were actually selling the parts. That they admit to have provided the technology is probably more of a realization than it is an admission.
Except that in THIS case, Hamas didn't actually start this war. In light of this it must also be realized that Israel finds it a lot easier to bomb the living shit out of a stateless collection of penniless Arabs than to actually reach a serious and legally binding agreement with a functioning and effective government. The former can be smacked around left and right with little more than international hand-wringing; the latter can take Israel to the ICC and potentially force them to abandon their settlements or, worse, pay war reparations for 50 years of military occupation.
This is not a war.
I guess asking that is like asking why people ask loaded questions
Hence, "unless it's by their own terms". Sovereign Palestinian state is of course on Hamas's list of priorities, somewhere below ensuring Hamas's own survival, staying in power, and maintaining a perpetual war against Israel.
Actually it's three, two Israeli civilians and one Thai migrant worker. However the original question was, how many were killed by Iranian rockets. I believe the answer to that is just one.
But they are not firing those rockets or crossing the border to kidnap soldiers on a regular basis, like they did before the 2006 war. There is mutual deterrence.
Bullshit. If Hezbollah wanted to provoke a conflict and frame Israel, all they would have to do is start firing the rockets on some pretext (cross border fire, or situation in Gaza, or by trying to kidnap another soldier) and escalate when Israel responds. The reality is that Hezbollah doesn't want a conflict, because it now knows what Israel is capable of doing to its expensive buildings and toys. Hezbollah has too much to lose, and practically nothing to win. Hamas on the other hand has nearly nothing to lose, and plenty to win.
Which is what they were doing even before. And more recently they've been fighting ISIS in Syria. But whatever other hobbies they might have doesn't remove the fact that the border between Israel and Lebanon has been relatively quiet, and there have been hardly any rockets that could be traced to Hezbollah in particular.
They have been stealing land from the Palestinians for 50 years.
That's just another way of saying that YOU don't believe them. You personal bigotry is not a compelling argument.
At this point, they don't even want that much. Just to address the right of return (and then primarily in the context of East Jerusalem, which DEFINITELY doesn't belong to Israel).
So what? Israel said the same thing about Palestine in 1947. Peace means that NEITHER of them will ever get all of what they want, and they'll just have to settle for peace.
