imajulianutter,

Is the "ima" in your name short for imature?

Jayb
It is indee fortunate you don'need paper for your bottom...
Your s... falls from your mouth.
imajulianutter,
You may not need paper soon when you're made to eat your words ! Do you honestly believe Israelis would fire a single shot if the Palestinians didn't either ?
They will never let up, only if they become history will they stop..

"Your views seem to be an Israeli death is a tragedy while 100 Palestinians being murdered is a "bean counting" bore."
Odd that, you speak of the deaths of Israeli's so casually, but the Palestinians were "murdered" ?
Bit of a give-away there.
What of those three Israeli teens whose fate kicked all this off again, were they just meaningless deaths to be ignored, or were they innocent victims of murder, by fanatic Palestinians?
I disagree that the Palestinian civilian casualties are murdered anyway, except in the general sense that all victims of war are murdered.
All these deaths are to be deplored, but only the Palestinians can stop it, that call is theirs alone.
Just what ELSE can the Israeli's actually DO that will stop the Palestinian bombardment and sneak attacks?

if Israel was to withdraw then its enemies would wipe it out. If the Palestinians stopped bombing their would be peace. Simple solution but terrorist would rather use kids as shields.

There are certain facts the authors of this article choose to ignore.

Hamas DOES make use of civilians as shields, as shown by the latest UNRWA discovery of rocket in a Gaza school. Plenty of other evidence surfaced since the conflict started where Hamas leaders call on civilians to shield targets from Israeli strikes, or prohibit them from heeding IDF warning and leave their homes for fear that they will be treated as collaborators. At the same time Hamas continue firing rockets targeting Israeli civilian population centres . These are not Israeli propaganda posters. It's not someone's opinion. These are facts, as told by Hamas themselves. "accusing the enemy of using human shields"? Of course they are using human shields. They're telling us so in countless interviews. What more evidence do you need?
They have no regard for Palestinian citizens, let alone Israelis. They treat the civilian casualties simply as a strategy for winning public opinion, with some success as is evident by this article.

Yes, they don't have bomb shelters. But if Hamas used some of the building material imported into Gaza for building shelters, as Israel does, the Palestinian civilians would now be safely out of harm’s way. Of course we know that much of it is used for building countless tunnels for smuggling goods and sending terror missions into Israel.

Yes, Israel uses cutting edge weapons allowing it to target more accurately instead of the makeshift rockets which are nearly impossible to aim. So? Would you prefer Israel to send the same makeshift rockets into Gaza, randomly hitting targets at 100 times the casualty rate? Can you imagine how many Palestinian lives would have been lost had Israel used the same type and number of rockets that Hamas fires into Israel?

They do not have an Iron Dome. But guess what? If they stopped firing tens of thousands of rockets into Israel they wouldn't need it. Maybe they could even divert some of the funds currently spent on rockets and other terror infrastructure onto other projects that might benefit the Palestinians instead of causing them endless anguish.

There factors that are not in doubt are:

That the conflict was triggered by a relentless barrage of rockets fired into Israel,
That Hamas has no interest in stopping the conflict, as shown by its ignoring of the Egyptian called cease fire,
That Israel has the right and duty to protect its citizens by responding to stop the rockets,
That Hamas has stored and fired most of its rockets from civilian areas, which is a war crime,
That the geneva convention considers military assets within civilian areas legitimate targets.

It is not surprising that Hamas has generated little sympathy from governments around the world given that the reality is that none of this conflict needed to occur and that consequences of Hamas's actions were entirely predictable.