Israel cease fire ends in Gaza; hours after it began

Well, if Hamas won't stop.....

Lets hope it will actually stick this time, but I fear it wont

Thank you for getting this.

I just hope it holds.

It would be nice to see some peace in that region!

Nice update. Hope it lasts this time, ain't it the third time they've announced a cease fire?

There is no such thing as a unilateral ceasefire. Its dictionary meaning, and the Ceasefire entry on Wikipedia define the term Ceasefire as:

"A ceasefire (or truce) is a temporary stoppage of any armed conflict, where each side of the conflict agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be declared as part of a formal treaty, but they have also been called as part of an informal understanding between opposing forces."

Please stop feeding the 'hearts and minds' phase 4 of the Israeli war crime machine! Let's hope citizen journalism can see through the TV antics of mass global media!

The proper term for the Isreali action that begins at 2AM Sunday morning is Military OccupationHold-Your-Fire.

There's the Obama inauguration, and then there's this, from HuffingtonPost, on the 15th:

... reportedly wants a three hour ceasefire to allow its troops to watch the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild awards, live from Hollywood on January 25. "It's the only awards show where only actors vote for actors," said a government spokesman.

Israel will not seek a ceasefire for the Academy Awards on February 22 even though Waltz with Bashir, an Israeli film about the futility of war will probably be nominated. "We have no interest in a film that thinks war is futile," said the Israeli government spokesman. "We think war is moral, ethical, effective and a great political tool to keep indicted prime ministers in office."

Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?  Hope the ceasefire sticks.

It's a ceasefire agreed between Israel and the Americans as 'Operation Lead Cast ' was apparently  supposed to lead the cast of the new Obama administration down the pathway Israel wanted it  to take only political incompetence of the highest order in Israel saw its miltary operation to predetermine  Obama's Middle East policy not so much cause shock and awe as international disgust and horror  as  hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed in pointless bombardments.

Funding Israel to the tune of $3 billion a year the US simply could no longer risk being associated with  Israel's  atavastic slaughter of the innocents  in Gaza , it's  an absolute PR disaster and I imagine state department officials were screaming down the phone in Hebrew ' Listen  schmucks, we are swearing in the President in a couple of days and he doesnt want any footage of more dead Palestinian women and kids fucking with his photo opportunity with his family. Now lose the war or we cancel the next cheque.Got it? '

''Israel apparently breached its cease-fire after about 45 minutes when live television pictures showed a flare come down in Gaza City.''

Get real.

A flare is not a weapon.

Did they also light a match??

Sorry to read that.

it was never a ceasefire. that requires two parties. it was a hold-your-fire, an attempt to garnish some percentage points in the hearts and minds campaign that accompanies all war, especially those parties who practice blatant war crime such as Israel. a country that excuses their mass murder of children in alengthy hateful war of attrition against a soverteign people, with the thin excuse of homemade rockets provoked again by the terror of Israel against a neighbor, and therefore, all humanity.

There where 2 flares one after the other, I watched live on this feed (mms://media2.sonara.net/online2) as they were dropped.

i am not splitting hairs. and obviously i think the killing should stop and all israelis should arrest their child maimers, murderers and war criminals and prosecute to full extent of the law without delay.

Obama did not propose mass murder, or is to 'act' as you equate with obama's words, to kill babies and children as Isreal does by the dozen daily?

in short, no, no.

to act as obama says is not as you state to commit war crime. did it occur to you that there are successful, and therefore always communicative and peaceful, alternatives to committing war crime and burning children alive morning, noon and night as Israel obviously prefers, to hammer fiercely, bomb hospitals with phorsphorus, burn un food depots.

and ceasefire in the context of war can mean to hold fire, but that always assumes unilaterality. however to modify the term ceasefure with unilateral as the war criminal regime of Israel dis today, is to assume they are not stupid and wish to world read their message as an oxymoron, but that they hope the world understands ceasefire in its general sense (check Wikipedia Ceasefire entry) and that any action is a breach of some phantom truce.

it is completely sick. Actually beyond that. Israel is perfecting the loss of honesty, accountability and human decency that Bush has robbed the planet of for 8 years. sad to say but Israel is clearly an upscale terrorist nation, now institutionalizing terror as Germany has, England has, Japan has in past times.

do all you can to swiftly bring your criminal government to justice and restore peace and tolerance and basic rights for all neighbors. sorry to preach but what can you do? an option would be only to rant about just how evil Israel is, how it has not right anymore to exist, and such provocations. i prefer still to hope the human beings living in israel will act now and prosecute their child murdering political and military leadership, all involved with the massacre over the holiday season, during the US political accuum period.

Within the last minute there has been gunfire and loud bangs on a live feed from the border.