""The fact that the 8,000+ Hamas missiles fired into Israel resulted in so few casualties was pure good fortune, the death toll was low but not for the want of Hamas and their fellow travellers trying to kill as many innocent civilians as possible.""

Not only disingenuous, but factually inaccurate.

1. The missiles, having no guidance beyond being pointed in the direction of Israel, cannot be said to be targetted at anything or anybody in particular.

They were, in point of fact, so inaccurate that 8000+ managed to cause, I believe, 11 fatalities in about eight years.

2. Unguided missiles would seem to be a very inefficient way of attempting to kill "as many innocent civilians as possible", given the number of willing suicide bombers available.

Those missiles for the most part landed in open fields and at best scared a few goats.

All in all, hardly sufficient justification for the bloody and violent responses. If you want to bring up the slaughter of large numbers of innocent civilians, take another look at those responses.

I would be less disgusted if Israel were just once to express regret for that collateral damage, but all I hear is excuses and rationalisations for the (so called) "necessity".

Don T.