Comments on: Good Luck On That Cease Fire http://www.eckernet.com/2009/01/good_luck_on_that_cease_fire.html Pissing you off and making you laugh since 2002 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: J. Ewing http://www.eckernet.com/2009/01/good_luck_on_that_cease_fire.html/comment-page-1#comment-4640 J. Ewing Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:09:32 +0000 http://www.eckernet.com/?p=3002#comment-4640 According to news reports yesterday, Hamas had given Israeli troops a week to pull out, and Israelis weren't paying any attention. Immediately upon the calling of the ceasefire, however, Hamas sent more than a dozen rockets into Israel. Apparently Hamas believes all ceasefires apply only to Israel. I'm hoping this is a strategic move by Israel. They've pushed hard enough to slow Hamas down, and to get the "international community" (like UN Sec-Gen Moon) to concede that Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel if Israel stops annihilating Hamas. That's a better position than they had before. According to news reports yesterday, Hamas had given Israeli troops a week to pull out, and Israelis weren’t paying any attention. Immediately upon the calling of the ceasefire, however, Hamas sent more than a dozen rockets into
Israel. Apparently Hamas believes all ceasefires apply only to Israel.

I’m hoping this is a strategic move by Israel. They’ve pushed hard enough to slow Hamas down, and to get the “international community” (like UN Sec-Gen Moon) to concede that Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel if Israel stops annihilating Hamas. That’s a better position than they had before.

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