I do think there's something to the theory that Hamas is trying to extract a bribe in return for quiet before Eurovision and all of the important events happening this month.
Here’s an insightful analysis for you: Watch the HBO series “The Pacific”, learn what victory in war against savages requires, apply the lessons, defeat the Arabs once and for all, and until you do, STFU.
They usually get it from their Santa Claus in Qatar, but he was in that nasty old United States getting medical treatment last week, so the barrage went on and on and got worse and worse, until the Egyptians stepped in as usual and negotiated. Now the killers have their shakedown money.