• The entire conflict was started by Hamas attacking unarmed, unaware, civilians (from toddlers to 80, they raped, tortured, and slaughtered them all with no thought of any kind of mercy).

• There has never been any armed conflict ever in history at any time and any where which did not involve 'civilian casualties'. The very concept of 'zero civilian casualties' is a ridiculous, childish, "unicorns and dreamland' kind of a childish 'wish'.

• With Hamas, like most guerilla/terrorist warfare units worldwide, they are all "civilians". There is no stark formal identifying definition between what are called 'civilians' and what are called 'soldiers'. Terrorists are ALL civilian soldiers. There are no civilians. They say this themselves proudly all the time in their propaganda broadcasts. They brag that their civilians (what the West calls civilians) are all ready to fight and die just like any soldier.

• A "Revitalized Palestinian Authority" is another childish wish holdout. It is equivalent to waiting for Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. It is NEVER going to happen. All the other Islamic Nations in the region know this. They all laugh at the West every time they hear this kind of talk. They only thing Arabs respect is force and power. Pie-in-the-sky Western fantasies are a large part of their comedy. Death to America! Death to Israel!, is not just a slogan with these 7th Century primitives; it is their way of life.

• PEOPLE ARE HURT AND STARVING AND SICK DURING WARTIME (a war they started by the way). Well STOP THE PRESSES! Who ever heard of this happening, ever? This is a first!? This is a brand new side of starting a war which nobody has ever heard of before. Nobody anticipated this! We should broadcast this new unknown phenomenon worldwide. We should have scientists and anthropologists studying and documenting this new anomaly to figure out how it happened and what is causing it!

No problemo.

Of course you shoot the dog.