good article on how israel broke the truce...not a pallywood source
http://www.vice.com/read/did-israel-assassinate-hamas-chief-peace-negotiatorThe target of the
Israeli missile strike this Wednesday, November 14, was later identified as Ahmad “Abu Mohammed” Al-Jabari. Al-Jabari was a leader of the Iz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. (Mohammed Al-Hums, his assistant, was also in the car, and died, too.)
But Al-Jabari was more than just a military man. Al-Jabari was one of IsraelÂ’s closest allies within Hamas and he had just completed brokering a truce with Israel three hours before his murder.
Al-Jabari, born in 1960, was Israel’s man inside Hamas to contact about putting ceasefires in place. Al-Jabari was considered a moderate who carried significant influence. Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading English language newspaper, recently reported that Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin, a mediator between Israel and Hamas who worked with Al-Jabari in negotiating the release of a captured Israeli soldier named Gilad Shalit, stated that Al-Jabari’s assassination came just hours after Al-Jabari had received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel. The draft of the agreement received by Al-Jabari included mechanisms for maintaining the ceasefire. “Al-Jabari was interested in a long-term ceasefire; he was not interested in these repeated rounds of attacks with Israel,” Gershon Baskin said.
If Baskin’s claim is accurate—and no compelling evidence has emerged to suggest otherwise—Israel assassinated the very man it was indirectly working with to obtain peace, after an agreement had been achieved yet before it could be implemented.
He was near or at the top of Israels most wanted list for his involvement in suicide bombings and other attacks, so who knows, maybe they were utilising him until they could get at him?
angel
there's a great quote from israeli defence minister ehud barak about that
something like: "in the middle east, there's never a 2nd chance for the weak"
i.e. al jabari couldn't fully deliver the rocket firers to IDF drones
because some hamas factions were also joining in
so he was expendable and was zapped
but i think it was deliberate truce breakin by israel
exactly like they did before the last election with cast lead
history often repeats itself, sadly
just like with us all
if we dont learn key lessons, they get repeated
not like us, sweetie
we learned, didn't we, eh??
xxx