Hamas already said they agree to year lull in contrast to what israel, and egypt suggested, 1.5 yrs at min

ceasefire starting Thursday? So they fire rockets off until then? Is Hamas really in charge or are there factions acting on their own- ?

and israel has agreed not to intervene in matters of the israeli people. so that means that we are letting the enemy deal with our problem. ok its like leaving a cat incharge of a bowl of meat. lets see were that leads us cos im sure we've tried everything else, like go to war and walk out in the middle of it. long live Israel and G-d be with us, cos this government is obviously not

Of course the Olmert/ Livni Kadima government can't see this. How Israeli people elected this Kadima government is a tragedy of epic proportions.

Yeah back to the good old days. Hamas doesn't even have to use the tunnels anymore to go back and forth to iran.

Hamas because of firing 800 hundred rockets at Israel used Kadima's weakness before the elections to get everything. Kadima the same partied that armed fatah with weapons that were used against israelis.

Hamas fired several hundred rockets and only because Kadima is the weakest government in israel's history do they get rewards like this.

Every day Kadima is in charge they do incredible damagae.

Now the outside terrorsits don't even have to use the crossings. They can also bring in all their material for making rockets through the crossings without using the tunnels.

Kadima is looking to give away israel's security before they are out of power and Hamas is taking advantage. No one is home to guard the store and look out for israel's interests with Kadima in power.

Hamas used the last lull to rearm and kadima makes the same mistake again. Hamas taking advantage of Kadima's weakness.

Say no!!!These shprt term truces are only for rearming.Be sure that exactly in one year Isral will be attacked again.. The terrorists must chose:Either long term peace or no peace at all..

Hamas went through the crossing they didn't even have to use the tunnels and then went down the egyptian border and through the open israeli border to eliat for a suicide bombing that killed 3 israelis.

Hamas was bringing in millions of money from iran and using the crossings to go back and forth to iran to train.

Kadima the party that was created to sell out israel's security. No enemy has done more damage to Israel than the Kadima party.

Kadima is having a fire sale before they are out of power to sell out Israel's security.

Kadima says yes lets do the same mistake again. Kadima's disengagement policies call for no security along the philadelphia route. Kadima wants turkey to patrol gaza and the philadelphia route.

A formal Cease Fire agreement will be concluded with the penning of the Hamas leadership's signatures on the large extra soft roll of paper ordinarily used for more personal "other" things. However, based on the value of *anything* agreed to by Hamas, it's leadership and the credibility of the Hamas command echelon; no less the expected duration of an actual cessation of hostilities towards Israel, the diplomatic breakthrough will now be known as the "Charmin Truce". By the way, the agreement still remains of some value for it's documents physical original intent.

let alone 365 days! The real translation of the proposal: "Israel cannot defend itself for 365 days while the terrorstinians continue firing rockets and mortars into Israel from Gaza. Israel must allow Iran, Syria and other arab nations to continue to supply the terrorists with weapons and not stop the flow into Gaza". That's what the proposal really means.

Next election Abbas will use. Kadima is making agreements with Hamas where Hamas will have complete power in a year over crossings, west bank, gaza. Kadima was for the last election that hamas ued to rise to power.

Kadima is allowing 2,000 smuggling tunnels. Kadima wouldn't allow idf ground troops and engineers to destroy them. Kadima wouldn't allow bunker buster bombs to destroy them. Some of them are 90 feet deep. Kadima wouldn't allow IDF taking over philadelphia route or searching for tunnels. Livni was against IDF ground troops searching for tunnels because she was the architect of the disenagement policy. Livni wants turkey in gaza and to patrol philadelphia route. Livni is ok with EU stopping IDF at the crossings.

And what do we gain from this lull? Suicide bombings instead of missiles? KAdima are a pack of traitors that dont care about its citizens or soldiers welfare!

Askenazi did a good job possibly with barak at defense ministry but hamas is not overly impressed.And barak just takes too long in idf response. His heart is not in launching actions and that is why he tried to stop it after 2 days. He tries to consider the political risks which is not really his job. He also took too long when he was PM and frankly he didn't react and israelis threw him out. He is the same old same old. When reports that rabin had thought israelis no longer wanted to fight came out with barak as his chief of staff concurring, it turned out they were both wrong. But israelis have to know that the idf willl fight with specific objectives-like retake philadelphia, assassinate the big hamas leadership, knock out all gas stations etc and some asymetric objectives.Barak now wants to sign a 1 year truce knowing that hamas will end it once they have missiles that can hit tel aviv, and jerusalem. So, a new government is needed to once in for all.Get this olmert out of there, the man who is blind and who entrusted the islamic radical erdogan married to an arabic extremist to give away the golan because olmert didn't want to offend his excellency erdogan, the ottoman who loves palestinians. By the way ahmadinejad is also married to an arabic lover and this explains why they are both energized and wild about destroying israel. So get barak out of there. And seize the iranian ship a The US blocked israeli from action should not deter israel. US is usually afraid of doing anything bold and this leads to israeli deaths. Sharon took over the karine, livni, yoiu want to be PM, you take over the iranian freighter.

Of course HAMAS and Palestinian people should win and take their rights

Hamas will never control west bank Hamas almost doesn’t exist in West bank you need to update your information, look to the situation during last operation in Gaza no one in the West bank tried to demonstrate people in Tal Aviv demonstrated but not in Nablus or Rammallah, my friend no one can mislead us any more the Arabs they want to use us to solve their own problems with Israel. Anyway I think cease fire with Hamas huge mistake its time the IDF seize Gaza and dismantle hamas terror net work in order to achieve peace