[frogstamper]

Now is the time for Hamas to show it really wants peace through solely non-violent means, the eyes of the world are on Gaza, a new American president is about to arrive and unlike Bush Obama holds the European view that letting the Palestinian conflict just fester without resolution is a large contributing factor to extremism among Muslim youth.
The same goes for Israel in that they don't want to get off to poor start with a new president, especially with the Iranian question upcoming in Obama's program.
Lets hope both sides leaderships are fed up enough of the status quo and are prepared to compromise, my bet is that the average Israeli and Palestinian have both had an utter gut-full and want change.