My point is, Ed, that Hamas cannot prevent Israel from firing a rocket at the beach. But Israel could easily have prevented it by not firing the rocket. To put it any other way marks you out as an Israel regime apologist. Children killed by an Israeli bomb are killed because Israelis fired the bomb. It was Israelis' choice to fire the bomb. No-one else's. It was a pointless, or worse, thing to do. Israel must account for deaths caused by Israelis firing rockets at Gaza. That may well be possible (though I have my doubts), but we won't get there until the people who fire the bombs that kill people accept that they are the ones who did the killing. That applies to rockets fired from Gaza OR from Israel. Someone was killed in Israel yesterday by a Hamas rocket. Should we say that Israel killed that person because, had they not beseiged Gaza, it would never have happened? I would have a lot of difficulty in saying that. But Israel apologists such as yourself appear to have little difficulty in applying a particular kind of double standard (because they think thy're right, of course. No - they KNOW they're right - mostly because Murdoch and AIPAC et al. told them!)