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Sorry for just jumping into a good convo here. First I must applaud the range of perspectives on this site and on this topic in particular. I have the following to add if you please...

Israel must be maddenly frustrated at their inability to control their AO even with all of the military backing of the U.S. Let's face it this fight has never been a fair one in terms of weaponry or assets. A couple of Palestinian kids use a few slingshots against some Israelis and they respond with Apachees.

The entire case is a false argument anyway. Hamas could never, in a million years, prevent a few terrorists in Gaza from firing a few rockets over the border. It's silly and unrealistic. It's like blaming the police department of a U.S. city of 1.5 million people for not preventing all the murders that take place. It is just silly, if a small number of people want to operate outside the rules they will always be able to do that to some degree. Always.

So, tactically Hamas just runs circles around these guys. Not from a bodycount perspective of course but from a long term strategy perspective. The harder Israel strikes back with their JDAMs the more foolish and helpless they look. It just shows that Israel cannot take a punch. Conversely, the Palestinians are willing to take huge losses to achieve their goals. Israeli behaviour will be their own ultimate undoing. They are an increasingy demographic minority and already run the region like Apartheid South Africa in the 1950's. It's simply not sustainable. The sooner they learn to get along with their neighbors the better off they will be. Let's not forget that their mere presence is what is really in question here. Unfortunately, we stopped talking about that a long time ago but the mere fact that Israel exists is the issue. They are uninvited guests who entered the scene after a thousand year absence.

If this fight were 'fair' in terms of armaments it would have been over a long, long time ago.