If Obama was PM of Israel he’d be drawing red lines, then erasing them after they are crossed. Luckily for Israel they have Netanyahu and nobody (especially Hamas) doubts his resolve to use force.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s leader said the country will exert ‘‘great force’’ against Gaza’s Hamas rulers after the Islamic militants rejected a truce agreement.

Israel halted its fire for six hours Tuesday after accepting an Egyptian truce proposal. But with Hamas continuing to launch rockets into Israel, it resumed strikes in the afternoon.

Benjamin Netanyahu said in an evening address aired live on television that Israel has ‘‘no choice’’ but to respond more forcefully.

Netanyahu said ‘‘Hamas chose to continue fighting and will pay the price for that decision.’’

The Israeli military says Gaza militants fired close to 125 rockets since the truce was to have begun. An Israeli civilian was killed Tuesday by fire from the Gaza Strip, the first Israeli death in more than a week of fighting.

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Related:Pew Poll: 77% of Conservatives Back Israel, Support Falls To Just 39% For Liberals

Liberals are rivaled only by Muslims when it comes to fanatical hatred of Israel.

Via Washington Examiner:

Republicans sympathize with Israel in its conflict with Palestinians increasingly more strongly than Democrats do, according to a new Pew Research Center survey, opening up the widest partisan gap on American opinion on Israel since available polling in the late 1970s.

In a survey taken July 8-14, as Israel took military action in Gaza to protect its civilians against a barrage of rockets being launched by Palestinian terrorists, 51 percent of American respondents said they sympathized more with Israel than with the Palestinians, compared with 14 percent who sided more with the Palestinians.

But the partisan breakdown was stark. Though 73 percent of Republicans said they sympathized more with Israel, just 44 percent of Democrats felt that way. According to Pew, “dating back to the late 1970s, the partisan gap in Mideast sympathies has never been wider.”

Among ideological groups, conservative Republicans sympathized with Israel over Palestinians by a 77-percent to 4-percent margin. In contrast, just 39 percent of liberal Democrats said they sympathized with Israel, compared with 21 percent who said they sympathized more with Palestinians.

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