Originally Posted by
Theodarzna
To be honest to I'd say there is a good chance Hamas stirred this for electoral gains in the West Bank as mentioned previously, and I wouldn't be too shocked if Syria and Iran are helping out, especially in getting Hamas the arms and weapons to test against Israeli defenses but just mainly to fuck up Israel's tenuous peace alliances with the Sunni majority states like Jordan, the Saudi's, Egypt, UAE and a such. After all the Palestinians basically only have Iran, Syria, ect and someone is giving Hamas their military gear and keeps cutting the checks for them. Though this is more idle speculation. Hamas definitely wanted a war and spun a mountain out of a mole hill to get it. Iran is Hamas' ally, so I doubt they'd act to stir up a war without informing Iran. Syria might be too busy to give much real support. Russia too is allies of both, but is I'd imagine occupied with other bigger projects to work on.