The notion that Israel aims at military targets and not civilians is laughably ridiculous. They're dropping bombs in civilian areas and dropping bombs in one of the mosr densely populated areas in the world. It's is ridiculous to suggest that they only target the military or Hamas.
You may well convince yourself of this illusion, but the rest of the world is not fooled. Protests have broken out everywhere, including by more than arabs, and I don't find a single one in support of Isreal .. not because of the made-up crap about "anti-semitism" .. but because they see what Israeli apologists refuse to see.
How is our support of Isreal and the constant pouring of shrinking US tax dollars into Israel in America's best interests?
Well they re dropping bombs with the intension to kill enemy fighters, you are right that sometimes the intension to kill enemy fighters is questionable.
But then when you think of it: what would Israel have to gain by killing civilians?
The people who decide the outcome of the elections in Israel aren't pleased with civilian casualties, so the people in command have no gains by targeting civilians. Also as a result of civilian casualties the international pressure would be put upon Israel wich is also bad for the governing party.
I think you can agree that the main aim of Israel is not to kill palistinians, because then they could have used different "more efficient" weapons for that purpose and then they wouldn't care about using a land force to take out targets, using fighter jets who re able to destroy specific buildings. They could have used artillery and strategic bomber planes if that really was their main goal.
Also the fact that these bombing only happend in Gaza and not in the West Bank region (as far as I know), also indicate that Israel is not the main issue here.
Those protests are happening because of the large number of civilian casualties on the palistinian side. They re justified protests, I find the civilian casualties a very high price but if Israel would take out Hamas once and for all putting an end to "the terrorist government" and bring an end to this war that has been stretched out too long over time it might not have been casualties for nothing.
Keep this in mind:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/israel-and-palestine/66460-are-we-doing-abbas-dirty-work.html
Also do you think that the people that re now protesting would have been protesting if the same would have happend with Jewish casualties, that for example suicide bombers would have caused a similar number of deaths?
I still haven't forgotten this:
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http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/diplomacy/articles/dip_0087.htm
If we assumed for a moment that for some miracle Gaza stopped firing missiles on civilians, don't you think that Israel would NOT have bombed (military) targets in civilian areas? Israel even warned the palistinians and Hamas for this, they explicitly said what they would do if they didn't stop firing rockets into Gaza. And this really puts the blame for the result of the actions of Hamas on Hamas: Hamas can not deny that it was not responsible for this.
"How is our support of Isreal and the constant pouring of shrinking US tax dollars into Israel in America's best interests?"
Well about America: the reason why America and Israel re the closest allies is Historical, in one way America is also responsible for what is happening now because America promised to give the Jews their own Nation (WWII) and they choose the location of Israel where it is today.
Also the big political power the Jews have in the US, did you remember that each presidential candidate had to assure himself of Jewish support in the US before he got elected (this year 2008): it was maybe most visible with Barack Obama who still had to prove himself among the Jews.