President Jimmy Carter: "How To Fix It": Ending this war in Gaza begins with recognizing Hamas

[Uncle Joe]

28. Yes we have, I remember making this post and this should tell you a few things.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/IDF-source-Hamas-working-to-stop-rockets-from-Gaza-311977

There is “some degree of dialogue” between Israel and parties in Gaza to prevent rocket fire into southern Israel, Brig.-Gen. Micky Edelstein, commander of the army’s Gaza Division, said on Friday.

Speaking at an IDF event in Sderot, Edelstein said that Hamas was working to thwart rocket attacks from the Strip.

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“Today Hamas and other actors in Gaza are acting to stop the rocket fire. They don’t always succeed, and where they fail, the IDF acts,” the general said.

Earlier last week, the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported that Hamas had replaced policemen in the Gaza Strip border areas with fighters from its armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, in an effort to stop the rocket fire.

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A Salafi official told the newspaper that his group refused to comply with the cease-fire agreement and would continue firing rockets at Israel. The Hamas government arrested Salafi jihadists who claimed responsibility for rocket fire at Israel, the paper reported.

1. Hamas was cooperating per Brig.-Gen. Micky Edelstein, commander of the army’s Gaza Division.

2. The increase of 1500% in rocket fire from Hamas happened after Netanyahu aka Cheney/Bush attacked Gaza on a trumped up charge.

3. Hamas had plenty of rockets but hadn't use them until then.

On the positive side there are no reports of rocket fire since the ceasefire agreement has been reached

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.608928

LIVE UPDATES: Operation Protective Edge, day 29
Three-day truce between Israel, Gaza holds; no missiles fired since 8 A.M. Tuesday.

Officials in Gaza say more than 1,800 Palestinians were killed during the operation, most of them civilians. Sixty-four IDF soldiers and three Israeli civilians have been killed since fighting began on July 8.

Having said all that, it's too bad for all those dead, mostly civilians that Netanyahu had to use an iron fist in pummeling the product of his own creation, instead of working to break the hate filled insanity of the endless of cycle; which plagues Israel/Palestine.