Totally disagree Foolstroupe, those Palestinians who attempted to provoke an Israeli response by firing those rockets into Israel in order to destroy this latest opportunity, were I presume among those who Palestinians who voted Hamas into power. You are saying that irrespective of agreements reached between elected representatives (Israeli/Palestinian) that the Palestinian side cannot keep their side of the deal? Who then does Israel peacefully negotiate with? What peace can be reached if any Palestinian Faction is allowed to attack just because it decides not to honour what has been agreed?

Another question for you regarding the Palestinians who fired those rockets after the agreed ceasefire had been put into place.

Their targets were Israeli civilians (No condemnation of this from either Ake or Foolstroupe) now had the Israelis been foolish enough to respond and that response had resulted in Palestinian deaths in Gaza, taking into account that a ceasefire had been brokered, who would you consider to be responsible for the deaths of the Palestinians, the Israeli's or those who deliberatly provoked the Israeli response - the answer of course is both, one side directly the other indirectly. But it does tend to demonstrate the regard held for the general Palestinian population by the Palestinian militants and their puppet masters - they are regarded purely as cannon fodder, a general population who only serve the cause if they can be kept in a perpetual state of misery and poverty, because given any chance of living a normal peaceful and prosperous life the militants know that their days would then be numbered.