Hamas announces 6-month truce with Israel

[Deckard]

Depressing isn't it?

The issue (and possibly the confusion from my first post) is whether we include these Palestinian militant groups as part of Hamas, and whether it's realistic to expect Hamas to be able to control every militant group like this.

"Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the rocket attack came because of "Israeli provocation this morning" and added that Hamas was "committed to the calm."

OK, so Hamas haven't ordered it, nor are they supporting it (from the above statement). And obviously they can't be expected to guarantee that militants won't act to undermine their peace efforts.

But it would be awfully useful if Hamas would actually come out and condemn these attacks, unequivocally.

And Israel, for its part, needs to start acknowledging some distinction between those militants, and Hamas, otherwise there will absolutely NEVER be peace over there. Ever. Every time Hamas agrees a ceasefire, militants will go and do something, and Israel will respond in its usual heavy handed manner, and the whole thing will just keep going on.