The Israelis would justify their destruction/takeover of Palestinian land as self defense, rockets, etc... but the facts say otherwise.
Israel consistently broke ceasefires by attacking first - twice as many times as Palestine but you'll never see it on the news.
Hell even posting it here gets people banned. Wonder what all those deleted posts are? Go to une\ddit.com without \ and see for yourself.
For example, the Israeli human rights group B'tselem, citing the Israeli Shin Bet, notes that nearly 14,000 projectiles were fired from Gaza from 2005 to 2013. UN OCHA noted that Israel fired about the same number of artillery shells into Gaza......in 2006 alone. Lastly, the Shin Bet keeps numbers on Palestinian fire from Gaza but does not differentiate between fire at Israeli targets that have entered Gaza vs. those outside it. Also, it does not have data available at the week level, only the month level. Even using their numbers for Palestinian fire though, Israeli violations outnumber them nearly two to one.
Before people cry about "shots fired aren't indicators of ceasefires broken," this analysis provides both number of projectiles launched as well as cease fire violations. Those statistics are tracked separately.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F07y-Gax1XA/UvKDpEwhwZI/AAAAAAAAFVY/vS6xmEK44Zg/s1600/Gaza+Dynamics.png
http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2014/02/israelgaza-cease-fire-dynamics-breakdown.html
http://time.com/3556631/israel-amnesty-international-gaza-war-crimes/
Also,
79% of all conflict pauses were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian, while only 8% were interrupted by Palestinian attacks (the remaining 13% were interrupted by both sides on the same day). In addition, we found that this pattern -- in which Israel is more likely than Palestine to kill first after a conflict pause -- becomes more pronounced for longer conflict pauses. Indeed, of the 25 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted 24, or 96%, and it unilaterally interrupted 100% of the 14 periods of nonviolence lasting longer than 9 days.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-kanwisher/reigniting-violence-how-d_b_155611.html
TL;DR -
Israel has been shown to not only violate cease fires first, they violate them at a 2:1 ratio compared to the Palestinians and do far more damage every time they manage to provoke a response and subsequent conflict.
The articles above cite data from Israeli Human Rights group B'Tselem as well as from Shin Bet (Israeli FBI).
Second post on Israeli nuclear policy was also deleted, but the post can be found on the profile page of /u/lolcensorshipboo
TL;DR - Israeli blackmails the world with nukes to get their way. Sources include Israeli nuclear scientist turned whistleblower who was jailed for 18 years, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh (broke story about the My Lai massacre), Creveld (Israeli military historian), among others.
