I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I honestly thought that this newest truce between Hamas and Israel wouldn't last a day, heck I wouldn't of been surprised to hear that it was blown in an hour. (I think that's happened before...) But somehow it took 5 days for Hamas to violate the cease-fire agreement.

AP Story - Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza shake truce

Depite at times the media having trouble covering anything related to Isreal fairly, I was surprised to see the only one who had a little trouble was MSNBC - Link. It's kind of funny how they go from reporting the story fine and then take a deep dive. Let's take a look:

"Militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip fired at least two rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, breaching a five-day-old cease-fire."

I still have no idea why groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are regarded only as "militants" and not "terrorists", but whatever. Anyway, starting out it looks good.

"The attack came hours after Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in a West Bank raid. The victims included an Islamic Jihad commander. The militant group later claimed responsibility for firing the rockets, saying the attack was intended to avenge the Israeli operation."

Okay, a prelude to the violation, that's good to note.

"The West Bank is not formally part of the Gaza truce. But the Israeli raid could be seen as violating the spirit of the cease-fire."

See, this is why I went through the first few paragraphs. We go from the general situation to a crafty two sentences where the writer actually says that the area Israel had the raid (West Bank) was "not formally part of the Gaza truce", then preceeded to say that it could be considered as a violation of the truce. (or the spirit of it, whatever that means)

It truly is crafty writing. "not formally" part of the truce in reality means the West Bank is NOT part of the truce, period. Then "violating the spirit of the cease-fire" means that actually they may have violated the cease-fire.

As part of the cease-fire, Hamas claimed responsibility to keep the other groups in check (they are in charge, after all). This means that they didn't and it violates the cease-fire, Hamas being the one that broke it. To end this post, I leave you with a pretty funny headline from "Ace of Spades HQ":

MSNBC: Israel Violates Hamas Ceasefire By Allowing Itself to Be Attacked By Rockets
— Ace

After a very surprising Kansas and Louisiana win, it looked like Huckabee had some momentum. After Super Tuesday, McCain is essentially "the" guy for the Republican party, if they want to keep the White House.

As a McCain supported I was worried. Not that Huckabee could come back, but that McCain could be somewhat embarrassed if Huckabee gets close losses and strong wins. Not that it has changed completely, but McCain today had a strong win.

McCain won DC (5,000 votes compared to over 150,000 in the democratic race?!), Virginia and Maryland. DC and Maryland were crushing wins, Virginia looked close for a while but turned out to be a 9-point win.

It wasn't anything compared to the sheer momentum and dominating performance Obama has had the past few weeks, but I think it kept McCain looking good as the republican nominee. Now the questions if Huckabee will "really" stay in the race if McCain does strongly on March 4th, Ohio and Texas are huge ones.