The ultimate tragic irony is that the American Left bears considerable responsibility for the death of the Palestinian children they claim to "care" about.

Try a little thought experiment:

Suppose that Hamas had fired its thousands of Qassams from military bases in Gaza and stored its additional weapons in supply depots. Then suppose that in an effort to protect itself, Israel launched an air campaign that targeted the military bases and supply depots, and 300 Hamas terrorists were killed.

Would anyone care? Probably not. Most people would say, "good riddance."

However, we know that Hamas fired its rockets from locations near towns, and stored its weapons in schools and mosques. Now when Israel attempts to fight back, it kills 300 terrorists PLUS 200 innocent people. The world is "horrified".

What's the difference between the two scenarios? The difference is that Hamas used innocent civilians as "human shields" both to protect themselves, and to make sure that innocent civilians were killed in order to arouse the sympathy of the American Left.

If the use of innocent civilians as human shields incited disgust among the Left, and led to a loss of support for Hamas and the Palestinians, Hamas would stop using it as a tactic. But it does work; American and European leftists fall for it every time. That ensures that Hamas will continue to do it and more innocents will die.

By rewarding the use of human shields with condemnation of the Israelis instead of a flat out refusal to deal with any group that uses human shields, Palestinians "supporters" guarantee that the entire Palestinian population will remain hostages to Hamas.

The people who claim to be so outraged about the death of Palestinian children actually have the power to put a stop to it, by refusing to countenance any group that uses that tactic, but I'm not holding my breath. No one cares about the Palestinians except to parade self-righteously around liberal websites.