Hamas will remain calm...for now

Hamas will not attack Israeli forces evacuating the Gaza Strip later this summer, instead maintaining a "state of calm," Hamas leaders in the West Bank and Gaza have told The Jerusalem Post.

Does anyone really believe this?

Israeli military sources, however, said they were highly skeptical of such assertions, adding that they doubted Hamas could resist the propaganda value of firing on departing Israelis to underline the claim that their "resistance" pushed Israel out of Gaza.

Exactly. That's the way a propaganda machine works, and I don't consider Hamas to be anything more than that (of course, not all propaganda machines kill innocent people).

Nevertheless, we shouldn't be getting our hopes up.

"What is the point of fighting [Israel] if it wants to leave?" asked [Hassan] Yousef [Hamas leader], adding, "There is no need for us to clash with them, although this does not mean the resistance has ended."

No, of course not. It doesn't end until the Jews are expelled from the Holy Land in droves, right?