Israel's bombardment of Gaza has
killed
over 70 people. Targets included family homes (8 dead) and a cafe
where people were watching soccer on TV (6 dead).
Israel has a recipe for killing Palestinian civilians with a built-in
excuse: claiming it was aiming at military targets, and that it was
"retaliating" for rockets.
The rockets, when aimed at civilian towns such as Sderot, are a war
crime too, or more often an attempted war crime, since these rockets
almost never hit anyone. But Israel
intentionally
started this battle, so it cannot plead "retaliation" now.
Hamas may have cynical motives for
giving
in to the provocation.
Natural
gas under the sea is part of what the fight is about.
I don't think any amount of Israeli attack will make the people of
Gaza reject Hamas. Its effect will be to make them cling to it more
tightly.