‘They Achieved a Success Way Beyond Their Expectations’: Martin Fletcher on Hamas’ Surprise Attack on Israel

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FLETCHER: "I think they’ve been calling on the Arab world to stand up for them. Days of rage calling for the governments to fight. Will Hezbollah join in? Will they spark a regional war? All these things are possibilities. I think they achieved a success way beyond their expectations. They didn’t expect to be able to walk freely into Israel’s communities and kill civilians and not have the army turn up for hours and hours, in many places. In the communities in the south, it took seven to 10 hours of terror before anybody with a gun, soldier or policeman, came to help them."