JERUSALEM, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A report by Palestinian security says terror groups time their attacks to politically derail the peace process, Ha'aretz reported Thursday.
The authors of the report assume the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad are well-connected inside the Palestinian Authority with agents who provide information based on knowledge of political developments, including inside information about negotiations with Israel, the United States and the international community, thus enabling the Hamas and Islamic Jihad to respond accordingly.
"The suicide bombings are a key element in the arena of the struggle between the Israelis and Palestinians," says a report by a Palestinian security service on the suicide bombings, "and an analysis of the circumstances of the timing and execution of the vast majority of the bombings, particularly the major ones conducted by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad, makes clear the timing was much more a purely political matter than a practical military one."
