or baracks or sharons or any other government can stop these attacks ,with large scale gaza op , or with reoccupying gaza will you ever succede in stoping the resistence . one thing and one thing only will stop it is to end the occupation of those poor helpless people there .. one lightly ingured on your side , mabee from a shock , while 9 year old and younger girs and boys are being killed on the other side . you will never ever succede with what you are doing , israel is the looser in the short run and the long run , unless the occupation ends and then everyone lives in peace on both sides and also the rest of the world .....

of the palestinians for the past 60 years , and nothing we did near stoped there resistence , enough is enough !!!!!! END THE OCCUPATION NOW

This is backwards. We must put an end to the gov't. that allowed this situation to develop, to continue, & is unprepared & incapable of defending the country. Olmert/Livni/Barak must go first. Then .....

The terrorists in Gaza already know how to operate sophisticated weapons. They have not yet shut the door on the Egyptians' efforts at brokering a temporary ceasefire, but they are preparing for the next round. According to Shabak estimates, “if Hamas does not obtain all its goals in a temporary ceasefire agreement, then there will be an even greater escalation. Hamas is obtaining weapons directly from Iran, and we don't identify any obstacle blocking the supply of ammunition to Gaza....” More at : http://xrl.us/bmdnh

I think that the only solution should be in being led by flexible governments in the both sides. Here, we have what so-called Hamas government in Gaza, and the Israeli goverment in well-known. We need to be more tolerant because both sides eager to live in peace.

a little bit exaggerated don't you think? the occupation of gaza ended and the terrorism hasn't. israel has handed over land to an independent palestinian government in the west bank and has that reduced their efforts at terrorizing israel? no. you can say israel hasn't gone far enough in ending the occupation but the palestinians have nothing at all in fulfilling their obligations.