If Israel is using the excuse of crude rockets from Gaza to slaughter thousands of Palestinians...

[oberliner]

34. Here are my thoughts

Israel wants to destroy all the Hamas tunnels and rocket launchers because they threaten Israeli citizens. In doing so, they have a very callous attitude with respect to any Palestinian civilians who might get killed in the process. They also think they are justified in killing people they feel are active in Hamas and destroying buildings that are used by that group in any way. In doing so, they again are not particularly bothered if any civilians are killed while achieving those objectives. I think Israel should be whole-heartedly condemned for their clear lack of concern for Palestinian civilians, but I don't think it's fair to say that Israel is simply killing as many Palestinian civilians as they can indiscriminately for no particular reason. I also think Hamas bears some responsibility for continuing to shoot rockets at Israel which, in my view, does nothing to protect the Palestinians in Gaza, and, in fact, puts them at greater risk. Without question, though, the fact that so many Palestinian civilians (particularly children) have been killed by Israeli forces is thoroughly condemnable. The leadership of Israel and those who support the manner in which this attack has been carried out ought to be ashamed of themselves. As I said in an earlier post, the reality of what is happening is bad enough without exaggeration and false hyperbole.