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Originally Posted by bladeofdarkness

usually, war breaks out when one side :
1)wants to go to war
2)believes that they are in a position to win (by their standards of victory).
one does not go to war when they know they have no chance of victory at all.

Some of them believe in 72 virgins in their afterlife if they commit a terror attack. The attackers cannot realy be reasoned with... too much hate everywhere.

Originally Posted by bladeofdarkness

In the case with Hamas, their primary weapon systems when it comes to attacking is launching rockets and morters at Israeli cities, because its the only weapon they have.
they have no tanks, jets, ships, or anything else, just rockets with various degrees of range and power.

Not yet, but when the regimes in the region become true muslim states after the ousting of their corrupted leaderships they might get access to such things...

Originally Posted by bladeofdarkness

In the last flair up last week, Israel introduced a system called Iron dome.
Iron dome basically works by shooting down any rocket fired by Hamas if the system believes that it would land in a populated area.
so far, Israel only has two batteries, which can protect 2 cities, but in the next few years, Israel plans to build up to a dozen additional batteries, which would cover every city and town within rocket range.

which means, within a decade, Hamas's ONLY weapon is completely useless in battle.
and if, like i mentioned, one side knows that they have no chance of victory, because their only weapon is completely ineffective, one does not go to war.

Hamas and Fatah might not be very powerful in a military sense, but they are powerful in their propaganda approaches that creates like minded people and gives them support from like minded people (especially in muslim countries).
This is basically an arms race the Hamas and Fatah cannot win by themselves. And this is my actual concern, when their supporters realize it, they might not restrain themselves to the support role but intervene actively.
The escalation potential will stay on a high level, and unlike certain coldwar scenarios, the iron dome is not apocalyptic enough to cause the necessary restraint in religious fanatics. So, imo "peace" is anything but a surefire success.