Also Keith, Israel has loaded the dice heavily against avoiding civilian casualties by not allowing them the materials to build air raid shelters, on the pretext that they might use them to protect rockets.

So, while my heart goes out to those poor Israeli civilians who are, as you put it ""cowering in their shelters for fear of rocket attacks"", I'm afraid I must state that I have a great deal more sympathy for those Palestinian civilians cowering unprotected and being killed or maimed by eight days of attacks destroying 865 of their homes.

At least the Israeli civilians can take shelter!. Israel has set the Palestinians up as targets.

Don T.