Shooting at electrical technicians and people who supply Gaza with oil, attacking transit points from where Gaza is supplied. How long will it take the international community to understand that in such circumstances supplying Gaza is problematic and Israel cannot be blamed it puts its personnel security before Palestinian welfare ?

Serge, you can't be that naive. Israel will always be balmed, the world will say that Pal-s attack anything because of the occupation, no matter Israel does. Israel expected the world to say - okay, no Gaza isn't occupied anymore, so why do they attack Israel? Instead the world says - Israel left but turned Gaza into a big prison. The arguments against Israell will always pop up, there's never been any lack for them.

playing with matches & fire. Will the Gaza folk have to watch their entire house burn down before they start applying their grey matter. A study in pure pathology.

Until the day arrives that the IDF takes its orders from the Israeli Supreme Court with input from the EU and UN, I take it that it can initiate actions it deems are necessary. It may not be able to stem the absurd Israeli food, fuel, medical and other aid going to the hamas terrorists but it can make them pay a very high price by stepping up attacks and making them bigger. What better way to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday than to strike a blow against this hamas cancer! Hurt them in every way without sending in a large scale ground attack. The entire border should be mined and trip flared. Make it a real no man's land. And ask the Israeli Supreme Court to help deliver supplies through the checkpoint.

'Qassam rocket injures 3 Palestinians in Gaza' I believe the correct term is 'counter productive.'

What insanity. It's hard to imagine the absurdity that drives people to attack (a) their benefactors, and (b) the supply lines by which their food and energy are provided. It's also equally absurd that the world continues to demand that Israel support a group of people dedicated to its destruction. Here's my solution--a simple proclamation by Israel, issued to all the world's major new outlets: "Whenever Palestians attack a crossing point, ALL crossing points into Gaza will be closed for 30 days. No supplies or workers will be allowed through. Multiple attacks in a 30 day period will be aggregated to result in closures of longer than 30 days." Sure, this might drive Hamas back to lobbing missles, but at least the borders will be secure.

what the **** is your traitorous govt waiting for ? jimmy carters permission?

Provide your enemies with sustenance and supplies. Insane logic? Not at all...Olmert logic.

When an attack is carried out on the border crossing through which supplies are sent into Gaza, that crossing WILL CLOSE. The closure will last for 2 or more weeks. Repeat the rules, consistently, over and over, every time an attack is launched, & even when an attack is NOT launched. Then it is VERY VERY CLEAR to the entire world what the RULES are. And then it is up to Hamas. If Hamas wants to starve its own people, it knows exactly how to do so. But everyone else knows exactly that Hamas is to blame. It's hard to argue, if you know what the rule is, that you didn't intend to screw your own people.

As an American i look forward to the day you have to fight the arabs on level ground. All those weapons, all those bombs, and Hamas can still impose there will at any time. Imagine what it will be like when our US economy is in ruins and you have to fight on your own. What's gonna be funnier watching kaleed mashaal flying a attack helicopter into israel, or the face of Olmert when he realizes he has to protect himself,and no more big brother to watch over him. I hate you, because your why they hate us!

The Palestinians are on all on death-trip. The Hamas is just the latest manifestation of this. There is no hope for their people - they reject peace and embrace murder and hatred. This is what we have been saying all along but it has taken Sharon's pull-out from Gaza and Olmert's incompetence in allowing Hamas to get elected in the first place to show Israelis that there is no one to talk to and no one with whom to make peace.

do you realise that palestinians are part of human being--minimun aid humanitarian-- are you human?

There should be no truce with Hamas and the pressure should remain heavy. The actual situation is in favor of Israel. The only possibility to the inhabitant of Gaza should be the free choice to emigrat to other Arab countries (most of these countries are not very populated and can easily integrate them). The time has come for these people to stop with politics and terrorism and search for a solution for their families based on well-being and peace. Most of the inhabitans of Gaza hope for this solution as explained at : http://xrl.us/bjg97

the jews should radder emigrate then people of Gaza as Jon Phillips said that american economi is bad and you have to face the arab world alone soon then you will feel the terror israelis do to Palestinians

I find it interesting that the proposals being offered up by Ron Ben-Yishai in this op ed are all war crimes under international law, as is the advice being freely given here in the comments by Israeli-supporting keyboard kommandos. (Surely not everyone who supports Israel is a criminal?) Hasn't even one of you ever considered a radically different approach to ensuring Israel's security than more of the same crap that isn’t working? You know... respect international laws, stop stealing Palestinian land, stop murdering their leaders without so much as a mock show trial, stop withholding food and medicines for their children, (food and medicine paid for by the international community, btw – NOT Israel!), allow them to create businesses in the knowledge that the IDF won't purposefully destroy them when they become successful, open their borders, remove the checkpoints that exist only to crush the will of the people, open the roads that crisscross their lands to all and most importantly - remove every one of the crazed, racist, fundamentalist “settlers” from their illegal villages pock-marking the West Bank and send them packing, back to whatever country they came from. Oh, and it wouldn't hurt to introduce psychiatric testing for members of the IDF. Peace would arrive faster than you could say the word.