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All protected buildings lose protection if used for military purposes.

They opposed the emigration of Soviet Jews back then, it was only decades later that they lifted the ban on emigration. Their diplomatic support for creation of Israel was due to it being disruptive to the British.

And the same oil sheiks who lead attacks on Israel in UN also make deals under the table with Israel to counter the Iran, in hope that Israel and Iran will kill each other.

They also held the world record for the number of suicide bombings for quite some time

Resources are limited, what military expenditure would you cut, to field the required number of C-RAMs? Armor, artillery or infantry?

They did try to expand to Egypt...

Isn't that a standing offer for the last 20 years?

No and yes. NK is cash strapped and can't afford to support terrorists around the world, it is however willing to sell weapons and gear to anyone who pays cash, so some NK weapons did show up in Gaza, either courtesy of Gulf kingdoms or Iran.

Both Hezbollah and Hamas receive funds and weapon from Iran, albeit assistance to Hamas was curtailed once it started supporting Syrian rebels. Hezbollah is in a bind here, they have to do at least token action, as they can't let the Sunni Hamas reap all the glory, but on the other hand, given...

Which would show just how good intel they have and that many denizens of Gaza are willing to snitch on their immaculately glorious defenders.

Hamas needed a big flareup to distract the people of Gaza from the fact they furtherly messed up the place, the biannual Al-Aksa rioting happened and it became a good enough excuse for rocket time.