Damn it I used to be really quite pro-Israel but it is hard to see justification for the current Israel attacks on the infrastructure and civilian population of Gaza in retribution for the armed wing of a political party (or maybe a terrorist group or two) kidnapping a serving Israeli soldier.

It's a bit like it would have been if the UK had bombed Dublin after the IRA got Mountbatten, and surely armed forces are legitimate targets aren't they, unlike civilians.