Reply #20: The People Who Killed that Woman, Sir, Are Under Arrest

[The Magistrate]

Hamas did indeed arrest Fatah members; those are their internal rivals and enemies. They have not done so with Islamic Jihad members; indeed, there are credible accounts that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have pooled technical resources in the construction of rockets and firing sites over the last year. What would certainly satisfy me, and probably the Israeli populace and eventually its government, would be a good faith effort to arrest people acting without government sanction to attack Israel from Gaza, whoever they are affiliated with: such an effort would not need to be one hundred percent successful, but it would have to be obvious and sincere and in good measure effective. That there has been no such effort while Hamas ruled Gaza is clear.