Barry's quote:"This is not a war, it is an invasion of a territory populated by civilians. When criminal activity occurs within a district one does not kill anyone living within that district, one finds another workable solution.When a hostage situation takes place you do not shoot everyone, you do what's needed to get the innocent out of the situation without killing them & then try to aprehend the criminals"

I guess you know first hand what the Israeli army faced there and what occurred? I think not. Like they could have just went in there and gathered up all the rocket launcher guys and left? A piece of cake. And as if they have a criminal justice system to deal with their own militants? I've heard about Hamas's justice system - ask some Fatah members about that.

Hamas is Israel's enemy and all this is a war!This is not petty criminal stuff. You call it criminal activity when Hamas continually fired rockets into Israel? I think if a country did that to the United States, no doubt you would have a different way to describe that kind of thing.   Terrible things happen in war. War is crap. Hamas's agenda is all about war - nowhere is there an expression of a possible peace process towards Israel's existence. Gazans voted them in power and it this is what has come out of it. Hopefully one day everyone will vote for peace.