I find it puzzling how people somehow seem to think that when innocent civilians are killed by bombs, it's terrorism, if the bombers have their feet on the ground, but a legitimate act of war if it's done from the air. I cannot see any significant distinction, except that bombing from the air involves fewer risks for the bombers.

I am sure that, if the people involved in carrying out Palestinian bombings had the technology to do it from the air, they'd do it that way; and that if the Israelis didn't have an air force, they'd deliver the bombs by hand,if they thought it was necessary. After all, that's what was done when they were fighting the British.

The point I'm making is not that the Israeli state is uniquely wicked, but that it operates essentially according to the same rules of engagement as non-state organisational, which carry out political assassinations and explosions which kill innocent civilians, for political/military reasons. This is customarily referred to as terrorism when it is done by non-state organisations, and states which act in this way have been generally stigmatised as "rogue states" or "pariah states" in the western media. For example South Africa, Bulgaria, Iraq... But not Israel.