Hamas may have thought that with the IDF now pulling its troops back to a perimeter closer to the Gazan border with Israel it could reassert its power in all those areas now abandoned by Israel. Hamas was wrong, for a half-dozen powerful families, with thousands of well-armed fighters, understanding how weakened Hamas has become, […]

Hamas has been a despotic, cruel, and thieving ruler over Gaza for nearly twenty years. For a long time, it was the unchallenged absolute ruler of the Strip. If anyone dared to challenge its rule, or even just to criticize it, that person would be savagely beaten or, in some cases, murdered. But now, over […]