""Now, please tell us how Israel should counter the "evil" rockets fired at it from Gaza.""

NO!

You tell me what Israel would do, if its neighbours attempted to close its borders and blockade its coastal access, establish settlements on its territory and control its contact with the outside world. It would be war, and like the last one it would be the excuse for a land grab on the pretext of self defence.

That mate, whether you like it or not, is what Hamas is doing to the best of its very limited ability, self defence. It isn't right, but it is understandable.

Israel's response is neither.

Don T.