Israel is on a path will accomplish nothing. They can't bully their way to victory because the nature of their argument is not and will not be accepted by Palestinians. The only approach they seem to take is genocide. Fortunately, their are cooler heads in Israel today who disagree with the siege of Gaza. Not all Israelis agree with the "moving in". Read Ha'aretz.

The cease-fire needs to be brokered by honest and non-partisan leaders throughout the world. The world needs to see that this violence is not in the best interest of the world community and could trigger another world war. I hope that Obama might be one of the leaders but I fear he is too closely tied with the current administration in Israel to be objective.

Instead of demonizing Hamas, they need to be seen as a violent knee-jerk reaction to an
unyielding and oppressive Israeli regime by poor Palestinians.