Gaza policy

There are many reasons why one could criticize the Olmert Government over its handling of the rockets being fired into our country from Gaza. They have allowed this situation to continue without effective response for far too long. Targeting individual terrorists is good, but evidently not sufficient, and firing artillery shells into empty fields also did not suffice. Allowing the citizens of Sderot to be left unprotected against this onslaught was disgraceful, and allowing conscripts to sleep in unprotected tents within range of the rockets was criminal.
But, what is most disconcerting is that once a policy is decided upon, the Government, prinicipally the PM and Defense Minister, cannot stay the course for more than a day. They cut the supplies of oil to Gaza, but never thought that Hamas would use this as an effective PR tool by turning off all the power, including to hospitals, in Gaza City, even though they have plenty of electricity being supplied from the Israel national grid.
Now the Govt. has resupplied Gaza, because of world pressure and their own incompetence. I think I speak for the majority of Israelis when I say that this Government's handling of the situation is unconscionable. There is no reason why we should supply our enemies, and there is no reason why we should be concerned for their humanitarian needs when they are not concerned about ours. The majority of Israelis want to see drastic action taken against Gaza, such as cutting off all supplies, including electricity, and we want to see it now! Only forceful action, short of a military invasion, can persuade the terrorists in Gaza that continuing to fire rockets at Israeli towns and citizens is not in their best interests, whatever the world might think.