Earlier on Saturday, a demonstration was held on the shores of the Gaza Strip as protesters staged a flotilla calling for an end to Israel's blockade of the Strip.
barrage around the deadline. he doesn t sound very optimistic, and i suppose if past is prologue we should not be very optimistic that this is going to last very long. how do you see this playing out? i was just going to say, jim, the past is prologue. since the israelis disengaged from gaza in 2005 this is the 15th what you could describe as significant military operation. the third in the last ten months against palestine islamic jihad. the reality is this is not to trivialize it because a lot of innocent people died, one israeli, one gazan who had been working in israel, ten children, and at least 25 palestinian civilians. this is, frankly, a wash, rinse, and repeat. this cycle has been ongoing, and there s absolutely no evidence that it s going to end. the most significant thing, jim, about this, i think, is the fact that it s probably over for now, is that hamas, an organization