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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
3)  Hamas has no control of the cell that did the attack -- no military discipline.  That means there is no real chain of command.  .[/quote]

You are misunderstanding this point. Hamas lost contact with the cell during heavy Israeli bombing of the area after the attack. Hamas believes that both its cell and the Israeli soldier were killed in the bombing. If the cell members were still alive, they would be in contact with Hamas.
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So if they had the ability to be in contact with Hamas why did they take the soldier before the bombardment?[/quote]

You would have to ask them to know for sure. But, Hamas now says the soldier was captured before the ceasefire started. Another possibility that I suggested in another thread is that the ceasefire terms almost guaranteed that something like this would happen. The terms allowed Israel to continue searching for tunnels. However, Israel was not supposed to expand the ground it occupied. There were probably disputed areas that Israel thought it occupied and Hamas didn't think were occupied. If the Israelis started searching a tunnel in such an area, the Hamas cell could have considered it a ceasefire violation. A ceasefire in which one side gets to continue pursuing its prime objective is always going to be problematic.
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