Every quote above is from Israel's allies, Americans and Poodle Britain - what else are they going to say?
They were taken from the NGO Monitor, a pro-Israeli agency based in Jerusalem and funded by donations from the right wing 'Jewish Agency for Israel and Matan' - they are Israeli propagandists.
According to Haaretz, in 2012 they were challenged for attempting to hide the source of their donations
Hamas is a poorly armed. poorly trained irregular army facing the most sophisticated, well armed, well trained fighting force in the Middle East.
Whether or not Hamas's method of fighting is illegal or not, is beside the point - they are fighting a defensive war and their actions are no different than any force fighting such odds.
Last year Israel invaded Gaza and killed more than 2,220 Palestinians, 1,492 of them civilians; at least 513 of them children.
The Israelis indiscriminately destroyed hospitals, health centres, schools, public buildings - most of them occupied by civilians.
According to Haaretz, in the first half of 2014, the Israelis demolished 493 Palestinian buildings leaving 1 ,177 Palestinian people homeless.
THe UN has calculated that 22,000 homes were rendered uninhabitable during the fighting.
On one occasion, health workers informed Israelis that their patients were in the path of advancing troops, they were instructed to take keep all its inmates inside one of the buildings (the health workers had providence the co-ordinates) - the building was later shelled by tank fire.
Towards the end of the fighting, Israeli troops reported that Israeli death squads were picking off Palestinian survivors sheltering in the ruins of buildings
THESE ARE WAR CRIMES AND NEED TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR - INSTEAD, ISRAEL HAS CALLED FOR THE DISMANTLING OF THE INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES COURT - WHY WOULDN'T THEY?
"greatest impetus for Hamas to launch its war."
Hamas did not launch this war, on the contrary, Israel invaded Gaza and massacred its citizens indiscriminately in revenge for the kidnapping and killing of three students.
On 9 Aug 2014, an Israeli drone killed five children from one family - revenge enough, if revenge against civilians was considered necessary.
No matter how illegal Hamas's action is, it measures small against the number of Palestinians killed and wounded down the years by Israelis - troops and settlers.
Hamas is doing nothing that Israeli freedom fighters didn't do following British pulling oput of Palestine.
"Jim, this thread is about the IS massacre in Tunia."
Israeli atrocities are directly connected to the rise of Islamist terrorism - you don't want to discuss that aspecy of it - don't, but do not attempt to interfere with anybody else doing so
Jim Carroll