The Palestinians experience acts of war constantly.
Are they not allowed to respond?
It's really really difficult to disentangle what started when and where and by who in a conflict that is essentially over 80 years old. In fact..not sure it's worth it.
It does seem to me that most of Israel's military responses seem to be aimed at Gaza sites that rockets are fired from. That's one thing.
Then, there are a whole lot of other factors including the way stone throwers are treated, whether or not protestors were shot in just cause or not, which would have to be looked at on a case by case basis.
He’s admitted that for years.
You can't broad brush it all.
But we still get back to an essential function of a state: the right to protect its civilian population from threats.
What the Palestinian civilian population goes through is devastating. What the Israeli civilian population goes through is devastating.
I hope we can acknowledge that - rather than claiming it's just a few rockets here and there.
So what can we do to rectify it? And, maybe, more to the point - in what way is HAMAS acting to PROTECT it's civilian population? In what way is HAMAS acting to put it's civilian population in danger?