Reply #135: You seem to insist that real facts are incompatible with your belief system. Your selectivity

[ConsAreLiars]

is, of course, your only recourse.

Fact one: "The UN recorded seven Israel Defense Forces (IDF) violations of the ceasefire between June 20 and June 26, and three violations by Palestinian groups not affiliated with Hamas between June 23 and 26."

Fact two: "The UN recorded seven Israel Defense Forces (IDF) violations of the ceasefire between June 20 and June 26, and three violations by Palestinian groups not affiliated with Hamas between June 23 and 26."

Fact three: Fact: The IDF killed many Gazans during the truce and when those acts failed to provoke Hamas into retaliatory violence they killed 6 (or 7) in one day. During that period no Israelis were injured.

Fact four: Only after the truce was broken by those murderous acts did Hamas attempt to respond with (ineffective) attempts to harm Israels.

Fact five: Israeli's leadership got the intended result. A pretext. A cover story that seemed to its acolytes and dittohead rightists to justify the pre-planned massacres and destruction that followed.

As for what Hamas was doing, less is known about that than the facts that the IDF had been "terminating" (you prefer that?) people in Gaza throughout the whole of the cease-fire. My guess would be a tunnel, but I've seen no evidence one way or another. Maybe you have some?

The fact is that the "assassinations" (you prefer that?) were carried out within Gaza, not within Israel when the alleged kidnappers emerged from the alleged tunnel while attempting some sort of nefarious or scary action. If a tunnel was being built and had been discovered, that would have been a rational and politically advantageous PR opportunity. If the goal was to finally destroy the truce in PR preparation and grooming of the gullible for a mass slaughter of Gazans, the action they actually took would be the preferred one.

And thanks for acknowledging that your assertion that the Wiki article paragraphs I citied were full of falsehoods and broken links and then just one bad link (which wasn't). Shows honor and a willingness to learn.

Oh wait, you didn't.