[jaguar]

jesus you don't get it do you? How do you organize a truce where there is no authority and hundreds of splintered groups? Seriously, it's close to impossible, the entire region has been plunged into such depression there is no functioning government, there's no police force that can magically reign in the militants. Even if one groups holds a truce(and they have tried), others don't and the army uses it as an excuse to launch more inflammatory raids which only serve to destroy whatever fragile moves there were towards peace.

There are no 'top levels', there is no central command, the PA couldn't run a bath, let alone reign in militant cells that have survived the IDF for decades against their will.

let me turn your little argument around so you can see how silly it looks.
Imagine if Osama made a speech tomorrow saying they would lay off America and instead start working for political reform in the middle east though peaceful means if every simple American didn't say anything nasty about Islam tomorrow. Would that be reasonable? Or would that be laughed at?

Boy wouldn't it suck if one hardline asshole blew it for everyone and the enemy refused to recognise that