Keith,

Thank you for the apology but I don't think you are getting what is said to you. You imply that you had been open minded all along in the post IMMEDIATELY after admitting that you did not read what I was saying.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF BEING OPEN MINDED is informing ones self in an objective way. YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION to what others are saying.

You also need to try to follow the logic of what is being said and try to gather a few basic facts.

>>>Foolestroupe, Gaza City is urban and densely populated.
Not all of Gaza is, but that is where the rockets mostly come from and where Hamas fighters operate from.<<<

All of the Gaza Strip, according to the CIA fact book is 2 times the Area of Washington DC. The population of Gaza is 1.6 million, about 3 times the population of Washington. Any way you cut it Gaza is densely populated. I've never been to Gaza but I've been to Washington, it is very densely populated. Imagining putting 1.5 times as many people into the same area make my head hurt.

But you said this, "but that is where the rockets mostly come from and where Hamas fighters operate from." referring to Gaza City which you are implying is far more more populated than Gaza as a whole. By your logic that makes Gaza City far more heavily populated than Washington.

You claim that the WP was used by the IDF as a smoke screen.

The WP was fired from 155 mm howitzers in airbursts according to the IDF, which until the Attack on Gaza was over refused to admit any use, over positions from which they claim Gaza Militants were firing.

Isn't a smoke screen, meant to hide positions, supposed to be between you and the opposition or over you to hide your troops not over them obscuring them?

The intended use of the WP in the attack on Gaza was clearly to burn buildings and people. It fell on refugee camps, schools, UN compounds and aide. It is a very imprecise and destructive weapon. Using it in a place many times more populated than Washington DC can have only one clear military use, general destruction of civilians and civilian infrastructure. In the context of an occupation, this is clearly a war crime.