It seems to me there has been too much left to chance with the children of Gaza and anyone under 18 years old is a child. With a population so impressionable an ordinary ceasefire cannot go into place without providing for the 'de-programming' of the young people of Gaza and a revitalized educational system that insures their future, both through peace and prosperity in learning.
If Israel is to make retribution to Gaza for ending the reign of Hamas, Israel has to take the children of Gaza into their hearts and instill a future that is without violence, with only promise and a way to learn to be happy instead of angry.
(click title to entry - thank you) ...Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza's main city, as warplanes carried out at least 50 air strikes on the 16th day of a war launched to combat Palestinian rocket fire, which has continued despite the offensive....
...Civilians again fell victim in Israel's offensive on the impoverished and isolated Palestinian enclave, one of the world's most densely populated places where half of the 1.5 million residents are less than 18 years old....
...Israeli officials suggested the end may be close of its offensive, which has killed hundreds of civilians, despite having last week waved off a UN resolution calling for an immediate halt to the fighting....
...Earlier Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Jewish state was nearing the goals it had set for its operation, but said fighting would continue for now.
'Israel is approaching these goals, but more patience and determination are required,' Mr Olmert said at a cabinet meeting.
He told ministers that Israel 'dealt Hamas an unprecedented blow,' government secretary Oved Yehezkel quoted Olmert as saying. 'It will never be the same Hamas.' Israeli forces have demolished some 200 smuggling tunnels beneath the Gaza-Egypt border - Hamas's main resupply route - representing 66 per cent of the total, according to military spokeswoman Avital Leibowich.
The army said it had blown up 20 tunnels on Sunday alone, and an Egyptian security official said shrapnel from one of the strikes wounded two Egyptian police officers and two children at the Rafah crossing into Gaza....
