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And here we go!
Your query is a faulty one. Israel is not acting based on the "murder of four people". If the only action had been a Hamas suicide bomber that killed 4 or even 24 Israelis, the Israelis surely would not have attacked. Instead, Israel atttacked because of the incessant fire of rockets aimed at killing its civilians. In Sderot, for example, the people must always remain within 15 seconds of a shelter, for that is all the warning they can be expected to receive. If Hamas stopped firing rockets, there would have been no Israeli attack. Israel (and even Egypt) warned Hamas of the imminent attack for days, yet Hamas - sworn to destroy Israel - kept firing at Israeli citizens. No country would put up with that.
As for the 500 or so dead Palestinians, even Hamas admits that the vast majority of these - about 75% or so - are Hamas fighters. This is an incredible result for attacks against an organization that refuses to wear uniforms, hides its personnel and weapons in residential areas, and fires rockets into Israel from residential areas. Moreover, many of the dead civilians are the result of secondary explosions of rockets that Hamas has hidden in residential complexes and mosques. Hamas is to blame for these deaths, not Israel.
The fact of the matter is that Israel is doing everything it can to try to minimize civilian casualties while attempting to relieve itself from rocket fire. Hamas, on the other hand, uses Palestinians as chattel and human shields, hoping for more civilian casualities to show that Israel is somehow to blame.
Now it's Kathleen's turn to either mention the blockade, which is conveniently left out of the propaganda talking points of the Troll Army, or go after one of the other obvious half-truths that McFarland has dangled in front of her, AND BINGO! THE GAME IS ON!
