Goldberg's interview with Rayan was over two and a half years ago, with Rantisi a few years before that. Yet he confidently makes the statement on the current 2008-09 situation that "One of the reasons, among many, that Hamas felt compelled to break its cease-fire with Israel last month was to prove its potency to Muslims impressed with Hezbollah." The problem with this is his lack of sources for this particular knowledge--since he treats it as fact rather than speculation--and a severe lack of context, since he also knows that Israel, under the ceasefire, was to lighten the siege of Gaza, which they failed to do throughout, and that Israel also raided Gaza on November 4, 2008, killing six Hamas people. This occurred after two months of minimal (1-2) rockets being fired into Israel, according to the IDF's own website chart (since removed). He also leaves out Hamas's proposals to renew the ceasefire. Thus, he relies on the credibility of his "historical" narrative to slip in an unfounded assertion which fails to indicate that Israel itself bears some blame during the ceasefire. Finally, this statement is presented in such a way that it really acts only to support the author's thesis. Without presenting hard evidence for his asserting that there were "many reasons" for Hamas to break the ceasefire, his opinion piece becomes theorizing.