I am not cheif of staff, but i do know that even with IDF presence in Gaza there were rockets fired at Israel. Of course,there is slight escalation in rockets from Gaza and it is inexusable, but military action will cause huge rise in number of rockets fired and i cannot see how it will change anything after the operations end,except people who will be killed on both sides.
If you want my opinion - it got more to do with new situation in Egypt then with Gaza.

Les get serious, if Israel stops receiving rockets from Palestinians(this may have been the case for some time who really knows), then they will go into Gaza/West Bank and fire them themselves, remember their motto "by way of deception thou shalt do war", ever since Israel was founded on its terrorist foundations they have been treating the Palestinians(christians/muslims/atheists alike) like animals, they've never wnated peace and certianly nothng has changed. Israel and its little dog America will keep bullying the world until the world fights back, unfortuantely I believe that is exactly what they want as they think they can beat us, but does that mean we lay down and play dead? Screw them

How do you stop them firing rockets? - go in and get them with tanks etc - ok but that is what Hamas wants, to be seen as the victim of Israel=Nazi so as to goad the rest of the Arab world into taking action.

Do nothing, grin and bear it - not much of an option, they tried that for a couple of years after they handed back the Gazza strip.

Originally posted by Haxsaw
Les get serious, if Israel stops receiving rockets from Palestinians(this may have been the case for some time who really knows), then they will go into Gaza/West Bank and fire them themselves, remember their motto "by way of deception thou shalt do war", ever since Israel was founded on its terrorist foundations they have been treating the Palestinians(christians/muslims/atheists alike) like animals, they've never wnated peace and certianly nothng has changed. Israel and its little dog America will keep bullying the world until the world fights back, unfortuantely I believe that is exactly what they want as they think they can beat us, but does that mean we lay down and play dead? Screw them

That suggests that Israel would have undercover agents acting as enemies.

Interesting concept.

Mossad might play a major role in that scenario.

Perhaps also, Israel would somehow be involved in smuggling the rockets into the zones.