Public Security Minister Dichter told the Cabinet what everyone else knows by now: the Egyptian war on Hamas’ weapons trafficking is merely a show. Egypt does not want to alienate powerful Bedouin tribes in Sinai who live off the smuggling. In several previous government crackdowns, the Bedouins perpetrated terrorist attacks against tourist targets.
Dichter’s other truism was that many Palestinian factions besides Hamas launch rockets at Israel, and there is nothing that Hamas can do to stop it.
