Is Israel not supposed to fire back at Islamic Jihad?

How is Hamas's promise for a cease fire worth anything if there are still people firing rockets into Israel?

If Israel hit targets in response to the rocket attacks, as you say, then why are you making it appear that Israel is the aggressor.

Answer: because you support terror, as you always have.

MPACUK writes "So what we have here is Hamas offering a truce, followed by some rockets fired by Islamic Jihad which caused no injuries, but Israel then responding with an air raid despite Hamas' offer, killing 5 Palestinians. How many more examples of collective punishment does the West need to see before Israel is charged with war crimes? How many more innocent civilians will have to lose their lives before the YOU take action?"

Is there something very fundementaly wrong with your logic and ability to grasp facts, even from your own 'pen'?
You state clearly that Hamas offered a truce & then Hamas followed this up with indiscriminate rocket attacks upon Israel. That's acceptable to your corrupt minds.
However when Israel responds, by your own admission, and targets terrorists and kills 5 you complain it is a crime. Your logic is scewed.
If Hamas wants a 'truce', it certainly knows how to go about it, send our truce rockets into Israel then they will know we mean peace. The reality of the past shows Hamas/Hezbollah/Fatah truces have only been a cover to regroup.
Think about it, then you will see how stupid & dangerous you are, not only to your community but the wider population as well. All you are doing is stirring up hatred on a patently absurd but racist agenda.
Grow up, act responsibly and cease promulgating lies, hatred & the incitement of your readers, most of whom know very little, if anything, of the history of the Jewish people & their ancestral homeland.

This is how one courageous Muslim, Algerian Mohammed Sifaoui,equates Islamism with facism and naziism - Read this good people:-
http://www.meforum.org/article/1870

Also read this op-ed in the Kuwait daily Al-Watan refering to the murderous terrorist attack on the Jerusalem yeshiva last week -
‘This odious and inhuman terror attack exemplifies the extremist and inhuman path of the terror organizations Hamas and Hizbullah.’ The writer goes on to assert that ‘the terror attack must prompt the free world to comprehend the magnitude of terrorism and its threats and to realize that a clear and unequivocal stance must be assumed against it. There can be no negotiations with terrorism that indiscriminately aims itself at students, women and babies without any consideration for the means and the targets.’ Contrasting the terror attack with the IDF's operations in the Gaza Strip, the writer explains that ‘there is no link between a murderous terrorist act and the inadvertent killing of civilians in response to the firing of rockets by Hamas.’

Therin lies the truth as spoken/written by Muslims, not Americans, not Jews, not Christians, not the western media.

"Israel then responding with an air raid despite Hamas' offer, killing 5 Palestinians. How many more examples of collective punishment does the West need to see before Israel is charged with war crimes?"

Killing 5 murderers belonging to organizations classified as terrorist in the UK does not qualify as an example of "collective punishment". Do you happen to support terrorists? Do you feel sympathy for them? Does your heart bleed when they get killed?

MPAC writes above: "So what we have here is Hamas offering a truce, followed by some rockets fired by Islamic Jihad which caused no injuries, but Israel then responding with an air raid despite Hamas' offer, killing 5 Palestinians. How many more examples of collective punishment does the West need to see before Israel is charged with war crimes? How many more innocent civilians will have to lose their lives before the YOU take action? "

As I wrote you yesterday and you have refused to put my comments up, I will offer you a further opportunity to show how "democratic" your blog is.
Your argument that Israel is committing "war crimes" is blown straight out of the water by your very own hand.
The sequence of event to "prove" your point is exactly in the following order - in the first instance you write Hamas is offering Israel a truce, "... followed by some rockets fired by Islamic Jihad which cased no injuries". (So it doesn't count then if, thank the Lord, no Israelis were injured or killed).
Secondly, and remember this is the sequence of events as written by you,"...Israel then responded
with an air raid, despite Hamas' offer of a truce, killing 5...".
By your own hand you state Israel responded to rocket attacks.
And then you have the audacity to call Israel's responce a "war crime".
You are either deliberately whipping up anti-Israel & anti-Semitic feelings, hatred & bigotry included, amongst your Muslim readers or you are just plain stupid. I plumb for the former.
As far as you are concerned it is acceptable for a party to offer a truce,followed by rocket attacks from its territory but not acceptable for the victim of the rocketing to retaliate. Your spouting hateful & dangerous rubbish with only one agenda in mind, as mentioned above.
Will you dare print this? If not I will have to consider other options.

Yesterday again, I submitted the items below to show not all Muslims are bitter, full of hatred, but some can and dare take a responsible view of event. Both these items do not turn facts on their tails to give hateful raison d'etre, which result in one party hating another, unlike your disgraceful effort above.
Readers, if you wish to see a balanced view of the current Israel/Arab dispute, please click-on & read a very brave Algerian, Mohammed Sifaoui -

http://www.meforum.org/article/1870

Next, a Kuwaiti newspaper has published what for the Muslim world is unprecedentedly harsh criticism of the terror attack which killed eight students at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, from Al-Watan last week -

‘The attack at the yeshiva was a barbaric murder of eight children who were engaged in religious study', says the daily Al-Watan. ‘This odious and inhuman terror attack exemplifies the extremist and inhuman path of the terror organizations Hamas and Hizbullah.’ The writer goes on to assert that ‘the terror attack must prompt the free world to comprehend the magnitude of terrorism and its threats and to realize that a clear and unequivocal stance must be assumed against it. There can be no negotiations with terrorism that indiscriminately aims itself at students, women and babies without any consideration for the means and the targets.’ Contrasting the terror attack with the IDF's operations in the Gaza Strip, the writer explains that ‘there is no link between a murderous terrorist act and the inadvertent killing of civilians in response to the firing of rockets by Hamas.’
Well, these brave Arab souls say it all, unlike your bigoted, hateful and dangerous blog.
Telling the truth and not fitting & playing with events to suit the writer is an old maxim of journalism. Are you up to the challenge of truth?

The basic question must be can Haniya deliver a ceasefire and ensure that no forces operating in Gaza breach that ceasefire? IMO Haniya lacks sufficient credibility with the Israelis for his offer to be meaningful, and it is far from certain that the political wing of Hamas has authority throughout Gaza. Haniya is plagued by the same problem Arafat faced. The problem is that the Palestinian national movement is not a coherent entity. Instead it is an amalgam of loosely associated groups which do not even share a common goal. Each of these groups maintain their own armed forces. There is no overall authority to which these groups are bound and no mechanism to enforce any element of discipline.
It is all well and good for us all to demand that the Israelis engage in the peace process. But until there is a single credible national entity that represents the Palestinian people and is willing to exert its authority over the disparate / dissenting elements then the Israelis can effectively ignore any offers of peace as meaningless.
What is needed is a real political revolution in Palestine so that the inheritors of the feudal elites and the tools of foreign dictatorship are swept away. The internal political problems the Palestinians face are in fact not dissimilar to those that MPACUK struggles with in relation to the mosques and community representation.