RizzyKing

I think much of this in terms of timing and manner of attacks has a lot more to do with politics then it does with the rocket attacks themself. An incoming american president who is an unknown beyond what he stated in his election campaign (and lets be honest who expects those obligations to be adhered to once in the door) and the proximity of elections in Israel are two main things guiding this right now from the israeli side.

Hamas i think have been mind blowingly stupid in choosing this time to start firing rockets they had to know what was going to happen and i think once people have got past the israeli response they are going to start looking at and asking hard questions about anyone that would start this off in the first place and those answers will be more damning then any so called propaganda value they might get right now.

I am not excusing the civilian deaths but as has been said and while it is not nice it is true civilians do die in all conflicts but in this case you have to put the blame firstly at the feet of hamas they chose to fire rockets from civilian areas at civilian targets in Israel that was stupid and they knew damn well when they did it what was coming.

I have said before this wave of optimism that has follwed obama's election is misplaced he may well be a man who wants to right all the wrongs but thats a world apart from actually being able to do it and i think when it comes to the middle east he isn't going to make half the progress a lot think he will i hope i am wrong for the sake of the middle east but i just don't see it happening. He might have a new brush but i think he is going to find some old foreign policy stains that just won't allow themself to be swept away for no one.