That wasn't a cease fire proposal, it was a peace treaty, proposed with an organisation, Hamas, that doesn't want to live at peace. There was no deal there, and you'd have to be mad to think there was.

I though that the agreement was 'we will not negotiate with terrorists'. Israel must obliterate the Hamas terrorists. It is absurd to even think about treating with such dreadful people.

As long as Israel maintains its occupation, treats the
Palestinians as "animals" and keeps up the bombardment
and its total control of the region - nothing is going to
change. And, the American financial and military support
only keeps the situation on going.

Dreadful people? No, not the people - its the Israeli
government as the protesters will confirm.

And as for being mad? Yes it is insanity - to keep
doing what you've being doing for decades and expect things
to change!

Israel is a rogue state - and should be tried for war crimes.

Any state, by any reasonable assessment, which treats
international laws and conventions with contempt and
openly disregards them with increasing regularity
and maintains a brutal military occupation into the
bargain fits into the rogue state category. Israel
is one such state.

Graham_Young,

"Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the CEASEFIRE proposal accepted by Hamas falls short of essential (Israeli) demands, Reuters reported." (My capitals)

Netanyahu’s comments come as diplomatic sources say the agreement approved by Hamas is similar to the Egyptian proposal Israel already agreed to, Haaretz reported on Monday.

"According to a foreign diplomatic source familiar with the negotiations, the outline Hamas accepted Monday night is, at its core, the same as the Egyptian proposal which Israel has already approved."

"Since Sunday, CIA chief William Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani have held several meetings, during which an outline was reached based on the existing proposal – and it was this that enabled the breakthrough to Hamas’ acceptance of the deal."

Another diplomat closely familiar with the proposal said that “the ball is now in Netanyahu’s court.”

To say; "That wasn't a cease fire proposal, it was a peace treaty, proposed with an organisation, Hamas, that doesn't want to live at peace. There was no deal there, and you'd have to be mad to think there was."
It would appear from a distant vantage point you are more familiar with the negotiations than high level diplomats at the coal face. So who is mad

Going by two thousand years of that idiocy I'm surprised some people still think there can be a solution based on sense !