of firing them into built up areas. Someone I just heard on the radio from Gaza (maybe a liar) said that a building hit a hundred yards from his home was just a government building, but civilian not military. Israel doesn't have the greatest record when it goes to war." They are just the worst, aren't they? On the other hand as of the last time I looked, a few hours ago, Israel had hit around 600 targets in Gaza. Which is, as so many are quick to remind us, A Giant Concentration Camp And The Most Densely Populated Place On Earth T. And yet somehow, by the Palestinians' own telling, they have only killed 27 people and over half of them "militants" (which means "terrorists" in both Arabic & BBC). In such a crowded place. Where Hamas et al. launch rockets out of built up areas. Where what passes for the government makes absolutely no provisions for civil defense, apart from securing their own emergency quarters in the basement of Shifa hospital. It's still a dozen personal tragedies, but how do you suppose that imbalance -- 600 attacks, 27 deaths -- came about? Inattention? The random workings of statistical law? Terrible luck? When you say "Israel doesn't have the greatest record when it goes to war" what is it you mean? That, for a bunch of baby-killing monsters, they suck at getting the job done? Nick (in South Africa) 17 November 2012, 7:59 am Perhaps perversely, sympathy for Gaza