A Warning from Hamas

Hamas refuses to stop firing rockets at Israeli civilans and “threatens to kill international peacekeepers”:http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3653889,00.html.
Specifically, Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Maashal threatens to treat international peacekeepers as an “occupying entity,” but we all know what that means when a Palestinian terrorist leader says it. This may just be bravado and posturing against the Egyptian cease-fire plan on Maashal’s part, but those working on crafting a resolution to the war in Gaza would be irresponsible if they didn’t take his warning into account.
Don’t forget that United Nations personnel were car-bombed in Iraq and that American peacekeepers were truck-bombed in Lebanon. And almost as many Lebanese Army soldiers were killed in 2007 in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian refugee camp as the British lost in Iraq since 2003. Everyone is a potential target in the Middle East.
If a peacekeeping force goes into Gaza with more authority than UNIFIL has in South Lebanon, it could happen. I slightly doubt it, but I don’t know, and I could be wrong. Gaza very well may be populated with more terrorists per square mile than any other place in the world. It is not a place where international forces should tread lightly.
I’d also like to point out, as an aside, that Israel isn’t leveling even empty threats at international peacekeepers.