"You're turning into a bit of a parrot, as well as an ostrich, Jim. "
Ss you are Mike - only you appear to have swallowed a copy of 'Pride and Prejudice'
"Tell Hamas"
And what - the Israelis will take down their Berlin walls, remove the blockade, stop building settlements, stop using heavy artillery, chemicals and bombs on homes hospitals and schools, stop truning israel into the Apartheid state it is becoming, stop ethnic cleansing the Bedouins....?
Yeah - sure they will!!
What Hamas is doing is stupid, counter-productive and futile; it is damaging to the Palestinian people - it is little more than "I may not be able to fight, but I can spit".
What Israel is doing is murderously inhuman - Israeli response is on well the way to being a major war crime against the civilian population of Gaza.   
Israel has shown over and over again, particularly during the last peace talks, that it has no interest in any negotiation that doesn't include continued expansion and continued military domination of the lands that both Arab and Jew have a right to - they are the aggressors here and their behaviour needs to be challenged - as far as I am concerned, the question belongs at the Conference table, under the scrutiny of the U.N. and in full view of the world.
Stop strutting around like a wannaby Mr Darcy
Jim Carroll