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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
A 3 day ceasefire was agreed to and broken within about 2 hours. With an IDF soldier having been abducted you can pretty much say goodbye to any chance of this ending soon. Israel will likely respond very harshly.
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The IDF soldier in question is Lieutenant Hadar Goldin,
cousin to the current Israeli defense minister. They were ambushed from one of the tunnels after an attack by a suicide bomber killed two of the soldiers with him. This looks to be the intentional kidnap of the officer.
http://www.channel4.com/news/gaza-is...amas-ceasefire
Hamas then proceeded to fire missiles and mortars into southern Israeli cities. Can there be any denying that Hamas is the average Palestinian's worst enemy at this point? Breaking a cease fire within two hours of signing it just so you could capture a high value target in the hopes of getting another Galid Shalit? Israel is going to go all out war at this point. If Hamas ceased functioning and the violence stopped, at least the international pressure on the Israelis to improve the Palestinian situation would be far greater and the collateral damage would be far less.
For reference, Galid Shalit was the captured IDF soldier that was controversially exchanged for a thousand Israeli-held Hamas affiliated Palestinians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_S...soner_exchange