Once again I make the point that, so far as I can, see there is nobody posting on the Mudcat who thinks that Hamas firing those rockets has been the right thing to do. If there were, there would be every reason for those who do not believe these actions are justified to express strong disagreement with them. That would include me.

On the other hand there are a number of people people who do think that Israel's attacks on Gaza, and its imposition of a brutal blockade, have been the right thing to do.   And that means that there is every reason people who do not believe these actions are justified to express strong disagreement with them. And that includes me as well.

In both cases I believe that the violence and brutality not merely causes death and suffering to innocent people on the other side, it also endangers people on the same side, and entrenches the conflict. All it produces is more dead and maimed people and devastated lives.