The Palestinian alternate universe

Reuters/NY Times:

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday considered military options in the Gaza Strip after Hamas's armed wing fired rockets into Israel and declared a ceasefire dead.

Political sources cited a resumption of ``targeted killings'' of top Palestinian militants in Gaza as a course of action Olmert seemed likely to choose in consultations he convened with security chiefs.

Hamas's Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades fired eight rockets at Israel from Gaza on Tuesday in what the group termed retaliation for Israel's killing of nine Palestinians in recent raids against militants in the occupied West Bank.

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Abu Abide, a spokesman for the Qassam brigades, said after Tuesday's rocket attacks: ``There is no calm between us and the (Israeli) occupation. The occupation ended the calm.''

The Hamas-led Palestinian government, however, said it was interested in maintaining the Gaza ceasefire.

The truce does not cover the West Bank, where the Israeli military mounts frequent raids against militant groups it says are constantly planning attacks inside Israel.

``If the occupation (Israel) ... stops all assassinations, violence, arrests and raids against our people, Hamas will consider an enduring calm in liaison with other factions, as a collective position,'' Hamas spokesman Faze Barroom said.

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The rockets are being fired from Gaza where there is no occupation forces. That is one reason they fire form there. This events demonstrates why the Palestinians have nothing to offer the Israelis in any "peace" deal. Here you have the Hamas "governing" people saying they want to maintain the cease fire and the Hamas "militant" wing saying it want honor the cease fire and acting accordingly and the government does nothing to stop it. What they will get for their efforts is assassinations, violence, arrests and raids against the militants.

Johnathon Schanzer says that Hamas is failing to govern at all in Gaza and that human rights activist have indicated that the situation is worse than Somalia.

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