It's too bad.

I'm terribly sorry that all of those people had to die because Hamas won't stop lobbing rockets into Israel, but I'm not sure the message has been received. I can only hope that Israel stays the course and sees this through. It has ceased to surprise me that the international community is repeatedly taken in by the distortions, manipulations, and downright lies of these so-called Palestinian freedom fighters. In these conflagrations, high civilian casualties on the Palestinian side are all too common, primarily because the "freedom fighters" hide amongst the general populace while carrying out their war on the imperialist occupiers. Israel, like any grown-up, civilized country, has a real military that actively avoids waging war from suburban areas. Putting the large number of casualties into perspective is paramount in these situations, but I'm not holding my breath. The world will condemn Israel because it is the easy, trendy thing to do.

"We will not leave our land, we will not raise white flags and we will not kneel except before God," Haniyeh said.

The thing is--and I make this statement with much certainty--that most Israelis do not want the Palestinians to leave their land or kneel before anyone. Israelis would just like to be left in peace, without the daily threat of rockets indiscriminately falling on the border cities, without psychos bulldozing pedestrians, without suicide bombers detonating themselves in Tel Aviv marketplaces or shooting up religious schools. Apparently, this is just too much for the Palestinian leadership, who feel compelled to push and push until the Israelis are forced to take action.

It's a shame that all of those Palestinians have to die because their leadership views their lives as valuable for propaganda purposes only.