Some Familiar Pattern

It seems almost always a sense of desperation on the part of the Palestinians that makes them resort to armed attacks against Israel because they should know that it is not possible to force Israel, which has advanced fighter jets financed and backed by the US, to cave in or come to talks in a sincere way by any military means. The death toll is mounting, now over 400 Palestinians including a senior Hamas leader. Meanwhile, on the BBC, Shimon Peres, President of Israel, is talking about the 70 rocket attacks fired from the Gaza Strip today, which should not be compared with air raids by his own country. Eerily silent are the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Barak Obama, the US president-elect, which indicates what is in store in the next four years and possibly more.