Originally Posted by Sly

And to follow this up, you're right, Hamas never will be a political state because its a radical group. Being a radical group, they aren't a sovereign state. When a radical group and a true sovereign state are fighting each other, yes there will be differences between kidnapping and arresting. The radical group does not have real State power, therefore they have no power to arrest, so they kidnap. The Sovereign state does have power to arrest, so they do.

The current battle in the Gaza Strip started in mid-late June after Hamas kidnapped Israeli soldiers.

Yappo.