In the hysteria involving the Israel/Palestinian conflict I read 2 conflicting theories.
A) Israel has started an unprovoked war over a helpless people, while targeting and killing civilians, while Hamas has fired toy rockets over Israel.
B) After being under occupation for 60 years, Hamas has decided to fight Israel, they have started to rocket Israel, the latter is helpless and started attacking civilians but Hamas is winning with every day passing while Israel is toast.
So I am not sure which version to believe, the one that Hamas is innocent or the one that Hamas is brave
While Gaza has been under occupation for hundreds of years, by Israel, Turkey, Britian, Egypt and now Hamas, this war which was started by Hamas when they increased their barrage of rockets (of which they kept firing every month of 2008, before & during the "cease fire") may turn out to be their biggest blunder since they started the Palestinian civil war while killing hundreds of civilians.
Israeli soldiers are reporting 0 resistance, Hamas' leaders have gone underground and their warriors, who have been pretty brave when it came to killing their own, are in disarray.
Israel has insisted on stopping the rockets completely as a precursor of any truce, may have gotten exactly what they wished for, with the United Nations resolution that "stresses the urgency of, and calls for, an immediate, durable, and fully respected cease-fire which will lead to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza."
So the UN is calling for a "Durable" cease fire, while allowing Israel to hold their ground in demending that 8 years of Hamas attacks has to end, as aprecondition for them leaving Gaza.
No one wants to see civilians suffer the way Palestininas have suffered for 12 days and as Israelis have sufferd for 8 years, living in bomb shelters night after night.
Hopefully, now everyone will get their wish, except, of course, Hamas, who will no longer be able to rearm and their dream of overturning Israel shattered.