Richard:

"FFS, Keith, where are Hamas going to evacuate other people to? Gaza is a densely populated prison camp, or hadn't you noticed?"

Your question denies the reality that there was never any attempt by Hamas to move people to a place of safety, and reports of them actually ordering people to remain in the full knowledge that their rocket launching sites would be targeted, and in spite of clear warnings by multiple methods being broadcast by the IDF.

But to humour your idiotic question - "Where could Hamas evacuate people to" - the concrete air raid shelters they had built for "their own people" perhaps? To the defined "open spaces" declared by the IDF? To "open spaces" defined through negotiation between Hamas/the UN/ICRC/IDF? But as both you and I know Richard, Hamas did not make any attempt to save civilian life in Gaza because that is not on their agenda is it? Saving civilian life in Gaza does not work in Hamas favour does it - Hamas actually wants civilians to die - so that useful idiots such as yourself, Christmas, Greg F, Musket and Steve [Qur'an] Shaw and many others on this forum can witter on about it from your collectively, highly selective and biased view point.

And by all means let us return to the point of Isis and the Yazidi:

"... what is "shock and awe" going to do with Isis working like guerilla insurgents?"

Ah but Richard ISIS was not "working" like guerrilla insurgents were they? They were acting like a victorious conquering power, right down to the parades of captured prisoners, public executions of the same and displays of war booty taken. And what a "teeny-weenie" little exposure to "shock and awe" has done is to stop them doing that hasn't it. Just this morning on the Beeb we've had reports of any emergency evacuation of refugees by airlift from the mountain top is now no longer necessary because those people are now able to make their own way off the mountain - WHY? Because these brave Jihadis who only seem to be brave when faced by defenceless civilians found out that roaming about in their "Technicals" blasting away at unarmed people sheltering in the hills resulted in a visit from a Hellfire missile, so they've run and they've dived for cover. Their choice now is to slink away them selves to find some sort of position they can defend or just simply run, because they know that fairly soon there will be people on the ground backed to the hilt by that air power coming to get them.