I thought there was a truce? Hamas liars!

Besieged Palestinian Gaza is an experiment in provocation. Stuff one and a half million people into a tiny space, stifle their access to water, electricity, food and medical treatment, destroy their livelihoods, and humiliate them regularly...and, surprise, surprise - they turn hostile. Now why would you want to make that experiment? Because the hostility you provoke is the whole point. Now under attack you can cast yourself as the victim, and call out the helicopter gunships and the F16 attac

To John #2, Surround a country with 160 million people that want to destroy it. Fire rockets indiscriminatly. Refuse to recognize it. Kidnap and kill as many Jews as you can. ISRAEL gave up and gave back Gaza. They did not and do not want to go back. So what happened, It was not enough for a very selfish Hamas! The attacks on ISRAEL only got worse. You can understand the lack of trust that ISRAEL has for Gaza. Can't you?

(continued from above, 29/07/ 2012 14:03) attack fighters and the heavy tanks and the guided missiles, and destroy yet more of the pathetic remains of infrastructure that the Palestinian state still has left. And then you can point to it as a hopeless case, unfit to govern itself, a terrorist state, a state with which you couldn't possibly reach an accommodation. And then you can carry on with business as usual, quietly stealing their homeland.

2 ) JohnWV / United States "Besieged Palestinian Gaza is an experiment in provocation." Remember when HAMAS took over Gaza, they were asked to renounce violence, recognize Israel and recognize previous agreements. HAMAS made the choice not to do any of these. It is HAMAS that is fueling the provocation.