".... until a catastrophe occurs, on their side or ours. Only then will the leaders be forced to sit down and talk...."

Nehemia Shtrasler in "Talk To Hamas", Haaretz, here

"......Another irritating lie in the Israeli discourse insists that it is appropriate to make Gazans' lives a living hell, so that they will put pressure on their leaders and end the firing of rockets. This thesis was behind the first Lebanon war, but that fallacy didn't work either, even when hundreds of thousands of Lebanese were forced to flee to the north... "

(Just months after Israel's war on Lebanon came to an end, Israelis protest in Tel Aviv with stickers reading, "Talk with Syria," November 2006. (Moti Milrod/MaanImages))