and i thought tom friedman had a very interesting piece over the weekend where he said israel should make a proposal to hamas, saying, we'll have a cease-fire, and you just turn over all of the hostages you have, and put the burden on hamas to say, no, you keep killing us, you keep killing all of our innocent civilians, and so, you shift the burden to hamas, rather than on israel now, which is bearing the burden of public relations, seeing them no longer as a victim, but more of a villain, so, i think tom's proposal, interesting, i think it has some merit, and looking, what is success? if israel is to succeed in dismantling hamas, who takes over gaza at that point? is it going to be the israelis? is it going to be an international group? is it going to include any of the arab nations? all of those questions need to be asked now, rather than later. so, i think listening to tom friedman, i think he had an interesting proposal to shift the burden, at least, to hamas, where all the killing is taking place, because they could solve the problem right now, just by releasing the hostages the