Unfortunately ake, the women and children are part and parcel, as are Hamas tactics they are being used as cannon fodder and camoflage by their own men, or more properly, exploited by the men who regard them as property. And with the powerlessness of women in that society, they will be used quite literally as breeding ground for the next generation. And it is patently wrong. And it will go on as long as they get away with it.

It is an argument I do not wish to have to make to observe that if you think the large numbers of apparently civilian dead are excessive, what if those who control the sky decided they really wanted to kill large numbers. They have the power to carpet bomb Gaza, and it is a power they are obviously not exercising. At the risk of their own people, similar to the Ramallah affair.