As to the civilian death toll, I’ll direct you, for ease, to the Wikipedia overview, which offers a sense of the divergent counts, and the sources, with whatever prejudicial motives one wishes to presume, for those counts. Many sources provide a dramatically lower civilian toll than the one you choose to accept and repeat. It is all, in the end, isn’t it, a question of which organizations one wishes to find credible and on what intellectual grounds one judges their procedures? I’ll let you account for your own choices.

Here’s a news flash. You don’t beat evil and, Hamas IS evil, by playing by the rules.

You don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. If you do, you’ll lose, badly. It’s only in the movies where the bad guys always in the critical moment and, oh so conveniently, miss when they shoot at the hero.

Yes, some may say at your funeral, that you were ‘principled’ and ALL that will get you is an early grave. And ensure that the bad guys continue their reign of terror.

When human beings engage in barbarism, as Palestinian and Islamic terrorist do, they abrogate their own humanity and give up all claim to a humane response, for by their own actions they deny those rights to their victims.

ANY society under attack by terrorists whose government does not take the fight to terrorists, with ALL the weapons at its disposal is, in essence failing in its obligations to its people and by that failure have declared its own unfitness to serve the public.