http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4093281,00.html an article about the situation in Sderot. Thought this is relevant if we're talking about the suffering of people as a result of the actions of others.... rockets cause tanks to come in.... I'm not suggesting tanks coming in isn't traumatic, on the contrary.... but when your fathers are shooting rockets into cities at random it affects everyone... cause everyone in the city being hit knows, had they been there at that point in time, the shooter would've celebrated at their death (regardless of who it was, man woman child).... when the tanks come in they aren't happy with getting just anyone they get.... they're specifically intent on getting certain people... the people firing rockets... the people hiding the people firing rockets.... the people supplying the people with rockets.... also any supply caches of rockets to take out of the hands of those who are irresponsible with them.... that is war... it sucks, but the ones continuing the war are the ones who refuse to stop waging the war.... hamas actively pursues war... even war which they know will get many of their people killed... Israel pursues peace, peace that will stop their people from experiencing stuff like in this article. If Mexico caused this sort of situation in el paso for instance, would we be happy if our government just did nothing to stop the rockets being fired?? No, if Mexico won't stop it, then we'll stop it for them.... [ul]the firing of a rocket into a civilian center is not only an act of war, but also an international war crime.[/ul] and hamas does it all day long, but everyone wants to say Israel's the bad guy. I mean it's completely random killing, like the dc sniper, just sitting there popping people off who they have no vendetta against except that they are of a particular nationality. If that was Israel's intent, they would just nuke gaza.... or perhaps also it could be said if *hamas* were to obtain nuclear weapons they wouldn't hesitate to randomly kill everyone in the city all at once.