The international community insists that Israel should take "risks for peace" because - should the Palestinians turn out to actually mean all the stuff they say about their eternal jihad against Israel - international leaders will have Israel's back. The entire basis for the peace process, from the bolstering of Palestinian political authority to the disengagement from Gaza, was supposed to happen under that framework. So when cynics talk about anti-Israel diplomatic baits and switches, this might be kind of what they're talking about:

The international community's efforts at trying to weaken Hamas have failed and should be reevaluated, the EU's two leading diplomats to Israel and the PA said Monday, although they stopped well short of saying that Hamas should be engaged. "The policy implemented in the last year [toward the Gaza Strip] aimed at strengthening people [through providing direct economic assistance and humanitarian aid], and weakening Hamas... is having the opposite effect," said Ramiro Cibrian-Uzal, the EU's ambassador to Israel. "We need to think about alternative policies, because this has not been successful. This is important to recognize."

Fair enough. How about instead of that policy, the international community try a policy of not providing direct economic assistance and humanitarian aid to a population that backs a genocidal warmongering government? That would be new.

Cibrian-Uzal said that opening the crossings into Gaza could help strengthen Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. "Many people would share the view that what we are seeing now is strengthening Hamas," the ambassador said. "We have to see what we can do so that Abbas can show a peace dividend, and the opening of the crossing into Gaza could do this."

Actually, it would kind of do the opposite. But why quibble? It's not like there was another rocket today.

References:
* Annapolis As A Rosetta Stone For How Anti-Israel Bait And Switch Diplomacy Works [MR]
* EU: Int'l policy on Hamas has failed [JPost]
* Hamas: If Israel Doesn't Surrender We'll Blah Blah Blah [MR]
* Kassam rocket fired at Sderot; no wounded or damage reported [JPost]

Previously:
* Sharon Tries To Make Peace, Get Europe's Support, Build Moon Base
* Take Away Hezbollah's Collaborators, Human Shields, And Useful Idiots. Disband UNIFIL Now.
* The UN Makes It Official: There Is Absolutely No Agreement That Won't Be Changed If Israel's Genocidal Enemies Refuse To Accept For Long Enough