By Avi Issacharoff , Haaretz Correspondent: Hamas likely to extend truce with Israel, say Gaza sources
Talkback
Title:War against Hamas.
Name:Jean Van Daem
City: MetulaState:
The truce is not respected : You do not talk to terrorists, you fight and defeat them.
Since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 Iranian-backed Hamas, which is pledged to wipe out Israel and every Jew, has built a well-trained standing army of at least 20,000 men and a huge arsenal of weapons smuggled in from Egypt, and relentlessly attacks Israel with rockets and bombs. Israel should finally mount a major incursion into Gaza to deal with Hamas. If it does, Western opinion, which largely ignores Israeli maximizetion, can be guaranteed to cry ?atrocity? once again. And just as before, Hamas will deliberately place women and children in the line of fire to maximize civilian casualties in order further to inflame that opinion. That is their way of ?fighting? as explained at :
http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/03/palestinians-admit-using-human-shields.html