Reply #28: you might also note that he said

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As for the media, there was hardly much to report, since Hamas, along with other Palestinian factions, refused to respond to the provocations with violent retaliation, confining themselves to a unilateral ceasefire they’d reached with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo earlier.

So if the Palestinian factions "refused to respond to the provocations with violent retaliation, confining themselves to a unilateral ceasefire", who exactly was shooting the rockets?

The author is trying to have his cake and eat it; his argument is basically "the Palestinians took no action against Israel, and those actions they did take caused little harm". Surely you see the contradiction.

And why the assumption that there's only one reason for the attacks on Gaza?