More than a month has passed since the last significant exchange of fire between the Israeli military and Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Thus, despite a number of significant and deadly flare-ups, the summer passed without a new large-scale Israeli assault on the blockaded territory materialising.

While Israeli military strategy has long relied on deterrence – the idea that short, sharp shocks to enemy forces and civilian population will secure periods of ‘quiet’ – events this summer beg the question whether Hamas and other factions in Gaza have established their own deterrence.

“Hamas is trying to avoid escalation as much as possible, and to give a chance to the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip”, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’ international relations bureau, told Al Jazeera.

“But at the same time, Hamas has been trying, on different occasions, to send the message that we have the right to defend ourselves, the right to resist the occupation, and the moral duty not to accept dying in silence”.

On 29 May, Al-Qassam Brigades and Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades claimed joint responsibility for mortar fire that they said was a response to Israeli aggression over the previous 48 hours – including the killing of members of both groups.

“We will not let the enemy impose a new equation involving killing our people for free. The equation we will keep says: shelling for shelling and blood for blood”, the groups stated.

Again, on 20 June, Israeli strikes were the trigger for a retaliatory burst of rocket fire by Hamas, which itself prompted further Israeli air strikes.

A Hamas statement at the time declared a “new approach of a bomb for a bomb”, and rejected Israel’s attempts to “impose any new equations”.

Similar dynamics played out in other rounds, including on 14 July, when Hamas retaliated to punitive Israeli air strikes with rocket fire, and on 7 August, when the last – and most serious – escalation began with Israel killing two Al-Qassam members in what was later said to have been an “error“.

According to Gaza-based Hamas spokesperson Hazim Qasim, while “the Palestinian factions agreed that the Great Return March, which started on March 30, should be popular and peaceful”, Israel “harshly targeted the peaceful protesters” and additionally struck “resistance sites and the fighters”.

He told Al Jazeera: “Hamas’ position was that the protests were peaceful and must remain peaceful, so Hamas decided not to let the occupation turn the protests [not] peaceful. Therefore, it decided that any military attack must have a military response”.

“Despite the huge power gap between Hamas and Israel”, Qasim added, “Hamas, along with the other factions, were able to establish this deterrence equation”.

But did the summer mark a significant shift in tactics by Hamas?

For Tareq Baconi, Palestinian scholar and author of ‘Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance’, these events in fact reflected a longer-standing policy of deterrence adopted by Hamas and other factions, who “for the most part, have responded to Israeli assaults with rocket fire”.

“If there was a shift in Hamas’ resistance strategy”, Baconi told Al Jazeera, “it was most palpable over the course of the Great March of Return – it was during this period that Hamas held back; there was not a single rocket fired over the official six weeks of protests, up to Nakba Day“.

Naim described the Great Return March – which was not initiated by Hamas, but attracted its support – as “a message for the Israelis and international community that, despite having the capability to respond to Israeli aggression, we preferred to exhaust all peaceful ways to raise our voice against the Israeli siege”.

With respect to the rounds of escalations post-Nakba Day, meanwhile, Naim told Al Jazeera that “it is clear they were only a message, with the rockets being fired into the area immediately around the Gaza Strip”, as opposed to larger Israeli cities further away.

“Hamas has the ability to harm Israel, but showed great restraint, based on political responsibility towards our people”, Naim added.

‘No one rushing into war’

Israeli security officials and analysts acknowledged that Hamas acted with “caution” during the summer’s rounds.

According to Haaretz defence correspondent Amos Harel, Netanyahu is keen to “conclude indirectly an arrangement with Hamas” and achieve a “stable” ceasefire”.

“No one is yet rushing into war,” Harel stated.

The picture is more complex than one of simple military deterrence, however.

While Israel, “and Netanyahu’s government specifically, is quite sensitive to losses incurred because of Hamas”, said Baconi, Israel also “benefits tremendously from having Hamas in power in Gaza, for a host of reasons, including demographics, divide-and-rule, stabilisation of the coastal enclave as an autonomous region, and the containment of the ideology of resistance”.

Thus, “Israeli officials have had to walk a fine line between deterrence and defeating Hamas”.

Hamas, too, has considerations beyond basic deterrence.

According to Adnan Abu Amer, political analyst and dean of the faculty of Arts and Humanities at Gaza’s Ummah University, some in Al-Qassam Brigades worry that the continuation of the siege and the failure of efforts to secure a long-term truce might lead to anti-Hamas demonstrations in Gaza – a risk that could compel the Brigades “to direct public anger towards Israel”.

Further complicating matters is the ongoing bad blood between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah on the one hand, and Hamas on the other.

Recent reports suggest that efforts to secure a long-term truce between Hamas and Israel, and a lifting of the Gaza blockade, have come unstuck over how to resolve the bitter national division that continues to play out on a routine basis through accusations and arrests.

“I think the resistance movements here in Gaza are trying to find a balance between creating a deterrence and finding an outcome or exit for the catastrophic situation”, said Hamas’ Naim.

“The main idea now is that we have the capability to defend ourselves, but at the same time, we see that our moral and political responsibility is to give a chance to any political efforts by the United Nations, Egyptians, the Europeans, anyone – to improve the dire situation on the ground”.

Baconi, while recognising Hamas’s desire to achieve a long-term ceasefire and loosened blockade, is pessimistic about a political breakthrough any time soon.

“I think until something fundamentally shifts on the ground, post-Abbas, the current situation is likely to persist, with the predictable escalations”, he told Al Jazeera.

Such escalations carry inherent risks. “Hamas has been seeking to use the recent military escalations to pressure Israel, Egypt and the UN to respond to its demands for calm, and in particular, breaking the siege”, said Abu Amer. “But at the same time, Hamas does not want an open confrontation”.

“However, no one can guarantee that these rounds will remain only limited escalations, and the road is fraught with danger”.

Reyhanli, Turkey – When Syrians first started trickling in through the border, fleeing the flaring conflict, residents of the Turkish border town of Reyhanli in Hatay province welcomed them.

“We are all human beings and we are Muslim, so it is our duty to help them,” said 47-year-old Coskun Kaya, sitting in the sports cafe he runs on the outskirts of the city.

The tens of thousands of Syrians who settled in Reyhanli brought their savings with them and started spending on rent, property and food, which boosted the local economy.

Some opened businesses, others – mostly the poor – started working in the local agricultural sector.

Kaya’s small business also picked up, as Syrian youth started coming to his cafe to play football on the small artificial turf pitches he rents out.

“I’d say [the refugees], more or less, affected the economy in a positive way,” he says.

But seven years into the Syrian conflict, the effect of this initial boost to the local economy has worn off and local businesses are now suffering from the ongoing currency crisis in Turkey.

Since the beginning of the year, the Turkish lira has lost 40 percent of its value to the dollar, making foreign debt payments more difficult and forcing the central bank to raise interest rates stabilise the slumping local currency.

Amid rising anxiety about the future of the economy, Turkey’s border areas are also facing the prospect of another major influx of refugees.

The Syrian government and its allies have amassed troops and weaponry in northwest Syria in preparation for an offensive on Idlib province, the Syrian armed opposition’s last stronghold, which borders Turkey’s Hatay province.

Kaya admits that if more Syrians flee the war to Reyhanli, they might not get a warm welcome and their presence would exacerbate already existing infrastructural issues and social tensions because of overpopulation.

‘Buffer zone’

In Antakya, the capital of Hatay province, Nader, a 45-year-old father of three, is also anxious about more Syrians fleeing the war to Turkey.

“Of course, we’re afraid. As Turkish citizens, we ourselves are having trouble affording a proper life,” he says.

He works as an administrator in a textile factory which employs both Turks and Syrians.

He says that while it is good for business that cheap Syrian labour is available, the large number of refugees does not necessarily benefit the region.

Many Turkish families, like his, are struggling to make ends meet and some lose their jobs to Syrians, he says.

“There needs to be a buffer zone. [Syrian refugees] shouldn’t even be able to get in to the country,” said Nader, who asked to be identified only by his first name.

Turkey officially hosts some 3.5 million Syrian refugees. Hatay is home to a fifth of them or 500,000 refugees.

Before the war, the province was an important trade and transportation hub, lying on one of the main roads linking Europe to the Middle East.

Its economy for a long time was tied to trade with Syria and shuttling goods across the border.

Economic pressure

The war stifled the old trade routes which negatively impacted a lot of businesses.

But according to Reyhanli-born economist and former finance ministry adviser Vedat Ozdan, it also gave rise to smuggling, which flourished between 2012 and 2015 and provided the local population with a good income.

Over the past three years the Turkish government cracked down on illegal traffic across the border, which negatively impacted the local economy, he said. 

That, coupled with the currency crisis, has increased economic pressure on the local population.

A major influx of refugees, in the event of an attack on Idlib, could make matters worse.

It could push inflation and rents up which in the short-term would affect people’s disposable income and make them less tolerant to the newcomers, Ozdan warned.

“I do not expect a large-scale offensive on Idlib. But the Idlib problem is one of the important sources of uncertainties for the Turkish economy, which is not doing good nowadays,” he said. 

Even though the elite are aware that refugees are not a burden on the Turkish economy, the public perception is that [they are].

Galip Dalay, research director at Al Sharq Forum

According to Galip Dalay, research director at the Istanbul-based think-tank Al Sharq Forum, regardless of what effect refugees have had on the Turkish economy, the Turkish society’s perception of them is rather negative.

“Even though the elite are aware that refugees are not a burden on the Turkish economy, the public perception is that [they are]. This has created [political] sensitivities which the politicians [will have] to manage,” he told Al Jazeera.

The public fears of another refugee wave will be an important factor in the upcoming local elections in March 2019, Dalay pointed out.

Battle for Idlib

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s administration has repeatedly warned that an offensive on the last opposition-held territories would result in a security and humanitarian catastrophe that would affect not only Turkey but also Europe.

Idlib, along with northern Hama and western Aleppo provinces currently holds more than three million civilians, half of whom have are internally displaced.

Over the past year, the Syrian government backed by Russia managed to conclude a number of deals with opposition groups across Syria which saw their transfer, along with thousands of civilians, to Idlib province.

Faced with nowhere else to go, Syrians who oppose the Assad government are likely to flee to the Turkish borders, if an assault on Idlib begins.

The Turkish government is currently trying to find a political settlement to the crisis.

Even though its efforts to negotiate has resulted in a delay of Russia’s decision to launch the offensive, a ceasefire Erdogan proposed earlier in September was rejected.

According to Dalay, if Turkey fails to avert a major military operation on Idlib, it will seek to establish a buffer zone on Syrian territory in order to contain the waves of refugees.

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London, England – “The South Sea Company did not trade in fish,” says Alice Procter, as she shows visitors around Queen’s House, a maritime museum in Greenwich, southeast London. “They traded in something far more valuable to the English monarchy – slaves.”

The 23-year-old Australian art historian is behind the “Uncomfortable Art Tours”, a series of museum visits in the capital exploring history with a twist.

She focuses on what she describes as racist narratives and an ideology that underpins the objects displayed in European exhibitions from the colonial period, which isn’t always mentioned.

On the Queen’s House tour, portraits, botanical records, curios and engravings commemorating various European expeditions are analysed and put into context, sometimes to the discomfort of some of her tour group, who are mainly young white women – like Procter herself.

“It is no longer possible for Britain to present itself as a world power, and people aren’t willing to pretend any more,” says Procter. “They are interested in the stories that aren’t being told.”

Admiral Nelson’s lifelong opposition to the abolition movement, the English Crown’s financial involvement with slavery and the lack of evidence to support lurid tales of cannibalism all come as a bit of a shock.

“Museums provide almost a Trojan horse type of space to confront the official narratives we’re told,” says Procter, who started the tours in 2013.

“I started them out of a sense of frustration over the lack of self-awareness that white British people have over their pasts and history – and that lack of attention is part of the shadow of white supremacy and racism that’s hanging over our heads right now.”

Museums provide a biased view of the past, she claims.

“While museums continue to argue that they are neutral spaces, the fact is that they are not. There is always one side of the story that has been privileged over the other in these spaces, and we need to be more honest and open about that.”

This challenge to the official narrative comes at a time when Europe is facing a renewed debate over returning African art, much of which was acquired as colonial-era loot.

Museums and galleries across Europe have faced repatriation claims for decades. The counter-argument has always been that these objects are now presented as part of a global history.

Our Britishness is based on an erasure of history, and the ‘Great Britain’ narrative is based on ignoring the bad in the past. It’s important to look back to understand what’s happening now.

Kemi, Uncomfortable Art Tours visitor

Last year, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that Europe had a responsibility to return artefacts.

“African heritage can’t just be in European private collections and museums,” he said during a speech in Burkina Faso, later appointing two experts, one of whom is Senegalese, to oversee the repatriation process.

Other European nations followed suit. 

In May this year, Germany’s culture minister and the association of German museums released a “code of conduct” which included guidelines on how to research artefacts in collections, and how to repatriate colonial-era objects.

In the United Kingdom, the director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) made headlines when he suggested that the museum’s Maqdala collection, around 80 artefacts looted from the palace of the Abyssinian Emperor Tewodros II in 1868 by British and colonial troops, could be returned to Ethiopia on a “long-term loan” basis.  The country had filed a claim for their return in 2007.

“We believe that long-term loans are the quickest way to get these objects in front of the communities they came from,” says Tristram Hunt, V&A director. “The point about the Maqdala exhibition was to highlight the contentious provenance of the objects – and we decided to speak to the embassy about loaning these objects back because we need to be open and transparent about the collections.”

Formed in 2016, the Benin Dialogue Group, a consortium of European museums, discuss how best to return the Benin Bronzes, antiquities looted in 1897 during a punitive British military expedition to crush the dissenting West African Kingdom of Benin, in present-day Nigeria.

“There is great value in presenting objects from the Kingdom of Benin in a global context, alongside the stories of other cultures,” a spokesperson for the British Museum, which is part of the group, told Al Jazeera.

“[The museum] will always consider loan requests subject to usual conditions.”

The British Museum currently possesses 700 artefacts from Benin which were plundered in 1897 and has faced restitution claims from both the Nigerian government and the Benin Royal Court.

Are long-term loans the solution?

Long-term loans have been greeted with reservation, due to the legal precedent they may set. 

In order for a loan to go through, the country requesting the objects would first have to recognise the institute possessing the artefacts as being their legal owner – a contentious prospect when it comes to looted art.

This has fuelled concern over a potential whitewashing of the painful history behind how these artefacts were acquired by European nations during the “Scramble for Africa” in the 19th century.

Writing in the Modern Ghana journal, former UN legal adviser Kwame Opoku said long-term loans represented Europe’s perceived “God-given right and obligation to supervise Africans and their activities, including what obviously is African property and resource”.

Some activists, however, have conceded that the loans might be the best way for the artefacts to be returned for now. 

“Many of my Ethiopian friends and colleagues are uneasy about a clear endorsement of a long-term loan on the grounds that that would be recognising the legitimacy of the loot,” says Alula Pankhurst, a social anthropologist and member of AFROMET – The Association for the Return of The Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures. “However, there are some who recognise the need for a pragmatic approach, building trust between museums in the UK and Ethiopia. Personally, I am more inclined to the latter view.”

Professor John Picton, emeritus professor of African art at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), said repatriation sets an uncomfortable precedent that no museum will easily agree to, whatever the moral considerations.

“The ownership of the Benin Bronzes clearly lies with the Kings of Benin – but that argument won’t convince museums to return them,” he told Al Jazeera. “What will is long-term loans, the construction of museums in Benin and increased cooperation between European museums and Africa to understand their collections better.”

Back on the Queen’s House tour, visitors are forced to reflect on Britain’s colonial past.

“Our Britishness is based on an erasure of history, and the ‘Great Britain’ narrative is based on ignoring the bad in the past,” says Kemi, a journalist attending the tour. “It’s important to look back to understand what’s happening now.”

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   Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin: Round 4

   Golovkin lands a left hook counter. Golovkin’s jab-hook combo is landing more here in the fourth. Now an uppercut from Golovkin lands. Golovkin now goes to the body. Alvarez getting stung a lot more in these three minutes. Alvarez goes to the body again with his left. A close fight that is likely dead even through four.

   Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Golovkin.

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   Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Alvarez.

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   Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin: Round 2

   A little more activity from Alvarez early in the right. Stinging left hook to the eye of Golovkin. Nice punch from Alvarez. Right uppercut, left hand combo from Alvarez brushes the champ. Golovkin has a small cut near his right eye. Golovkin still utilizing his jab well. Nice left to the body from Alvarez. Excellent work from Alvarez in the second.

   Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Alvarez.

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   Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin: Round 1

   We are underway!

   Golovkin pumping his jab right away. Alvarez showing pop with a short hook to the body. Certainly feeling each other out through the first minute of the round. Golovkin with a bit more activity through his jab. The jab is keeping Canelo on the outside early. First round to the champ.

   Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Golovkin.

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    Thanks!

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    Roman Gonzalez vs. Moises Fuentes: Round 5

    Chocolatito’s pressure continues to put Fuentes near or on the ropes. He has him reeling. Clean right on the button sits Fuentes down and out! Clean KO!

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    Roman Gonzalez vs. Moises Fuentes: Round 4

    Fuentes scores with a left and a right body shot early in the fourth. Gonzalez is quick to get those back. Chocolatito’s punches look a bit slower here in the fourth. He is still scoring and throwing in bunches. Fuentes may simply be out of his depth tonight as he struggles to find consistency.

    Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Gonzalez.

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    Roman Gonzalez vs. Moises Fuentes: Round 3

    Fuentes wants to mix it up a bit more but Chocolatito’s defense is strong through the early rounds. Meanwhile, Gonzalez is finding hole after hole after hole to slip punches through. Fuentes has a small cut near his right eye. Chocolatito goes to the body with a left hook. He may be setting up a head shot with the cut and body work. This fight may be quickly getting away from Fuentes.

    Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Gonzalez.

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    Roman Gonzalez vs. Moises Fuentes: Round 2

    Fuentes comes out strong initially. He may feel like he needs to get a round back after that opening stanza. Good counter left from Chocolatito. Gonzalez is landing much cleaner shots and he is landing much more in the second. Chocolatito working the body again. Fuentes eating short shots from Chocolatito. Gonzalez doing a great job of being just out of range when Fuentes throws.

    Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Gonzalez.

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    Roman Gonzalez vs. Moises Fuentes: Round 1

    Both men testing the waters early with their jab and covering up nicely. Chocolatito scores with a left hook to the midsection. Smooth opening round as they try to find their range. Gonzalez looking to be a bit more aggressive in the final minute of the round. Good round to open the evening.

    Bleacher Report scores the round: 10-9 Gonzalez.

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    Reminder that we have a three-fight undercard for this event. Here are the bouts:
    WBO Jr. Middleweight Championship: Jaime Munguia vs. Brandon Cook
    David Lemieux vs. Gary O’Sullivan
    Roman Gonzalez vs. Moises Fuentes

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Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter

Teams already calling the Browns, who league sources believe are far more likely to trade Josh Gordon than release him.

Gordon is a vested vet and is not subject to waivers. So if he is cut, he is a free agent and can sign where he wants, for what he wants.

A lot at stake.

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It would be dope to see the Giants claim Josh Gordon and pair him with Odell Beckham Jr.

But Josh Gordon living in the NY/NJ area… it doesn’t sound like a smart idea.

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What in the world?! https://t.co/a3ps6p7gws

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Josh Gordon is about to let Tom Brady play another 10 years when he signs with New England on Tuesday.

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I’m not saying the #Patriots SHOULD bring in Josh Gordon or Dez Bryant.

I am saying I’d have ZERO problem with it. #lowriskhighreward

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Jerry Jones never saw a talented problematic WR he didn’t think he couldn’t fix. Cowboys vs. the field

Yahoo Fantasy Sports @YahooFantasy

Me when I drafted Josh Gordon vs. me today when he got released https://t.co/yofiwJMv6D

Master @MasterTes

There’s gotta be more to this Josh Gordon story. I just hope it ain’t a relapse.

Benjamin Allbright @AllbrightNFL

Kansas City should be all over trying to bring Josh Gordon in.

Hill, Gordon, Watkins and Kelce with Hunt in the backfield is just absurd.

Adam Rank @adamrank

Josh Gordon. Wow.

Erin B. Underwood @ErinBUnderwood

Every fan @‘ing their team right now about Josh Gordon https://t.co/vXB3MMwdqc

Matt Miller @nfldraftscout

I see you, Dorsey.

Tony Grossi @TonyGrossi

Must have been one helluva pulled hamstring. #kingofsabe.