I think Maximillion we are going to have to agree to disagree on the Gaza issue. As to whom broke the ceasefire may not be cut and dry but as this article in the Guardian reports it would cast some doubt on the justification of laying the blame at the feet of Hamas.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/israelandthepalestinians

But the argument I find most intriguing is “The Hamas terrorists are the sons, fathers, brothers etc of the victims, not a separate force, it was up to those they claim to be fighting for to deal with them.” Well they did deal with them by electing them. As a result there was a ceasefire that a cynical person might think only collapsed because and Israeli election was coming up and some chest thumping was needed.

Might not this argument lead to a justification of the bombing campaign of Israeli late night cafés? Each Israeli citizen in my understanding has had compulsory military training and these establishments were frequented mainly by those of serving age. When the bombings were occurring I remember thinking these were cowardly attacks. But if I were to adopt the above position then I might take a different view.

Back to our unmanned drones. The latest attack in Pakistan on the police academy was due to their use, "We claim responsibility for the attack. This was in retaliation to the ongoing drone attacks in the tribal areas. There will be more such attacks," Mehsud, the Pakistan Taliban leader.

These weapons have been in use for a number of years,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5762371.ece

Despite the Pakistani government’s resistance.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PAKISTAN_STRIKES?SITE=AZTUC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-03-18-12-18-29

Now it appears they want them for themselves.

And on it goes. I’m not sure your rocketship to the moon is going to fit them all in, but a nice thought none-the-less.

"As for getting themselves out of Gaza, well, they all knew where the attacks would come, how hard would it have been just to walk away, to put some distance between themselves and the targets? They chose to think the Israelis wouldn't pay them in the same coin they had been spending, their mistake. And they've paid for it."

Maximilion,

That's a pretty harsh assessment. I think it's fair to say that the average Gazan has a dislike for Israel, but is not sufficient to warrant a death sentence. Unfortunately the ordinary Gazans are the meat in the sandwich between the Israelis and the heavyweights in the Arab world. Really, the Gazans on their own are a very small threat to Israel. The problem is that they have been politically infiltrated and overrun by Hamas.

Have a look at how small Gaza is on a map - there are 1.5 million people crammed into it and they can hardly go anywhere, especially with Israel and Egypt manning the border crossings. They can't use a lot of the tunnels now either as they have been bombed.

You'll find that, no matter where you go, ordinary people are just that, ordinary. The politics is played to a much higher level by the elites and the activists like Hamas that support them. If you want to blame anyone, blame them for much of the conflict.