THE HIDDEN STORY BEHIND THOSE HAMAS ROCKET ATTACKS

The Age is presently carrying an Associated Press story which opens with the following paragraph which tells you everything you'll ever want to know about the bankrupt state of world human rights:-

HAMAS says it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns, to prevent retaliatory attacks.

And there you have it. Thanks to the corrupt minds of once respected human rights organisations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and those that brought you the Goldstone Report, Hamas is so emboldened as to tell the world that it is ceasing rocket attacks not because they are heinous criminal acts against a neighbouring civilian population but in order "to prevent retaliatory attacks".