BarrenPneuma: I agree the atrocity is outright wrong but to the highlighted point I disagree. Sure they are elected but they pay for their seat through support from nations who wish to maintain the volatility of the region. Iran and others drop huge payments into their bankroll and this is filtered to some degree down to the local population to garner support. Hamas is an institute of terrorism and is only there to provide the Middle Eastern world a view of Israel that conforms them all to hatred of the Jews.
Remove Hamas and allow both nations to come to some agreement together rather than one having the upper hand (neither deserve this and they have both clearly proven this with their track records.) Once Hamas is gone then the fanaticism of the Zionists will be tamed or have to be removed as well.
Mark, if you had been to the area you would know there's two ways people can either get supplies, medical treatment or money for essentials.
When the people have no choice, when there's a blockade so the people there have to pass through checkpoints to get to their own homes or travel into the west bank for work and it takes a lot of time you have to also see the work they do for the people.
If Israel didn't treat these people like second class citizens,and assassinate it's leaders they wouldn't react like they do to show the only way they can to fight back with any means available to them.
Now have you heard of a charity called "The Boy Scouts of America"? hmmn?
Well this group was a well funded organisation that bombarded the Lebanon with propoganda and it wasn't anything to do with the Boy Scouts, it was a "Conduit" for an American Intelligence Agency.
The sooner people try to stop playing their games in the middle east, i mean just stop, like tomorrow and say all parties to the UN next friday then and promise the solution to the middle east is funding for the Palestinians and the state quantified then all the Arabs and Jews will have a stable life.
Treating this as a place to play out Saladin Vs Knight's Templar's upgraded to the modern age is two things, ridiculous and vengeful.