Gaza policy?

For the New Year, the Government should adopt a positive strategy in Gaza in place of the current passivity in response to constant rocket shelling. Here are some suggestions:
1. Remove all vulnerable groups, including soldiers in tents and children in kindergartens from within the range of the rockets, before worse mass casualties result. It is the Govt.'s duty to protect its citizens, and this the Govt. has conspicuously failed to do. Those responsible for the recent injuries to sleeping conscripts should be charged and if possible court-martialed.
2. Stop supplying electricity to Gaza, so that they cannot run the lathes that produce the rockets that they then fire at us. This is elementary common sense, that no other country would tolerate.
3. What is at stake is the morale of the army and the country. We are being humiliated by the Palestinians firing rockets at us daily with meager and ineffectual responses. This only encourages them to continue the bombardment. In order to stop the rockets the areas from which they are fired must be reoccupied by the IDF to deny them the range to hit Sderot, Ashkelon and the southern Negev. Fortunately this area is sparsely populated. We should announce that this strip of northern Gaza will be evacuated once a ceasefire is in place that includes all rocket firing. If Hamas is not willing to make such an undertaking, they will be responsible for the suffering of the civilian population.
4. The international community, whatever it says, would act more aggressively against such an enemy than the Olmert Govt. is doing under the present circumstances. Positive action should not be made hostage to ineffectual and unrealizable expectations based on "principles" that no serious Israeli Govt. could currently adopt. The Israeli people must be given the chance to vote on the so-called "principles" that PM Olmert is currently negotiating with Pres. Abbas, and this should be in the form of an election. Let democracy determine whether or not the citizens of Israel support the choices of PM Olmert or another approach to our current chronic situation.
The situation in relation to Syria is worrying since they have been building up their forces on the Golan front. There are two other reasons proferred as to why the IDF might not want to attack in Gaza. First, it would give Syria the excuse to attack us in support of their Palestinian cousins (as Hizbollah did last year), and second it would divide the IDF's forces on two fronts when they need to face the major threat from Syria. There is a lot we do not know, such as what was the real objective of the recent IAF flyover of northern Syria, and whether or not the IDF has sufficient forces to fight a two-front war, in Gaza and Syria simultaneously. I believe that they do, but they may not want to fall into that trap and provide Syria with an excuse to attack. Given the current situation, with a supposed peace conference looming and Iranian opposition to such a conference, any action now might provide the pro-Iranian forces (Syria, Hizbollah and Hamas) with the excuse they need to try to undermine that conference.