The Israel-Hamas Ceasefire

The rockets launched at Israel in violation of the truce were part of a long standing Palestinian tradition of "testing" agreements with Israel.

After all, if Israel said, "it's just a few rockets, no big deal", then why not have a "truce" with a daily barrage of Palestinian rockets maiming, killing and terrorizing Israelis.

This situation further underscores the futility of making agreements with Palestinian terror factions, which are neither unified nor coherent, nor trustworthy.

If Hamas is not in control of its territory to prevent rocket launchings, then it has no business making a deal on behalf of Gaza.

The logic behind [Name]'s argument is off base.

1) On Sunday, Israel delivered substantially more supplies than at any other point in months, and expected to continue meeting its obligations per the truce agreement with Hamas and Egypt.

2) Islamic Jihad launched rockets at Israel ON A COMPLETELY SEPARATE ISSUE, having nothing to do with the level of supplies Israel was delivering. Islamic Jihad launched the rockets out of revenge for a prior incident.

3) Just yesterday, Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades launched mortars at Israel, even though Hamas has been begging all the groups to stop violating the ceasefire. Al Aksa Martyrs declared they did so in order to force Israel to extend the ceasefire to the West Bank. Palestinian logic for you - start shooting to make peace.

Israel's obligations are not under discussion here. The inability of Hamas to control a dozen different terrorist groups within Gaza is what remains the central issue to any lasting agreement. If Hamas makes a promise and that promise is broken the next day by a group it does not control, that makes the promise worthless in the first place.

The Palestinians are more fractured than ever, which is just fine as far as Israel's geopolitical interests are concerned - the Palestinians have selected these various terror factions to represent them, and such are the consequences of choosing the rule of thugs and terrorists.