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<blockquote cite=”After seeing the images on the TV”
This is where to start, the Tv images are very one sided, since the so called cease fire ended Friday, at current count there has been more than 65 rockets into Israel, Hammas is hell bent on killing the jews, so the question to ask is if your citizens were randomly rocketed including schools, would you measure your response or take out the group responsible?
bear in mind, this is not the first time they shelled Israel, this has been an on going problem for years…

I just came across this while checking out the WordPress theme, but just wanted to add:

- During the ‘truce’, which Israel observed, Palestinians have lobbed over 1,700 rockets into Israel – in fact, there have been more rockets and mortars thrown into Israel during the truce then without it – so this isn’t a question of ‘One or two rockets thrown over from Gaza’.

- of the 385 (now, over 400) casualties on the Palestinian side, ‘only’ 60 or so have been civilians. Israel *does* have the technology for near surgical strikes, and they target either Hamas installations, weapons depots, infrastructure, or personnel.

- Hamas deliberately uses civilian installations, like schools and mosques, to house their weapons, equipment, or personnel. This contributes as to why there are civilian casualties, as they use civilians as shields.

- Israel, before targeting any buildings or locations that contain civilians, or have civilians nearby, alert and notify the civilians to clear the target zone. This is done either with flyers, or in some cases by making phone calls to the individuals advising to clear the premises. They are usually given 15 minutes or more to do so, which is plenty.

- For the record, in contrast, Hamas targets civilians targets exclusively, with the intention of maximizing civilians casualties.

There just seems to be a one-sided reporting on this issue, so I just wanted to throw in some factoids to balance this out.

Thus, considering the above, and that we are not dealing with one or two rockets, at which point *DO* you decide that you have had enough shelling of your backyard, and are you allowed to do something about it?

Think about that.