It’s hard to believe Israel will let Hamas remain in power. The election of Hamas was invalid, because terrorism is antithetical to democratic politics. Hitler won an election too. Aside from this do you think the US shoud have allowed Saddam to again assume the Presidency of Iraq. Bin Laden is popular too. Hamas must go or their will be no Palestinian state and Abbas will be undermined and Palestine divided. Will Israel let Hamas take credit for the end of the blockade? Are the most creative and constructive people in Gaza going to live forever under tyranny and fear? Israel should never have attacked the iconic institutions of the Anglo American and United Nations schools. Like the Pueblo these places will never be fogotten. It seems like Israel tells people to leave areas, and then bombs their refuge. These are the people Israel should have protected. The ones that obeyed them were not the hateful bugs that stayed to be martyred. The rocket problems from these areas should have been tackled when all the rest of Gaza was pacified. War is a mess to be sure, so let the blood not have been spilled in vain. I am not sure Israel did everything in its power to prevent the war, but that it should let it end without getting rid of Hamas, who are probably supporter of Bin Laden, seems ridiculous. Why did not the US and Spain take advantage of Bin Laden’s relative’s asylum in Spain to negotiate a cease fire and amnesty with Al Quaida. Yet, Israel wants to make peace with Hamas still in power.