When the fighting bgan in Gaza over the capture/kidnapping of an Isaeli soldier, I was taken aback by the Israeli response.  The shelling and invasion/incursion into Gaza was clearly far greater than the kidnapping warranted.  Then, when a prisoner exchange was rejected by Israel, even there had been past exchanges with Hezbollah, which is not even a country, that struck an odd note, especially in view of the fact that Israel had recently recognized the Israeli-Gaza border as an international border.