Jake writes: "You may remember an incident in Gaza city a couple years ago when Israel dropped a one ton bomb on a 9 story apartment building? They killed a couple militants and 9 children along with a couple more adult civilians."

BECKY: Funny you should bring this case up to show how BRUTAL the Israelis are. Note how the man was TORTURED by Hamas into giving his confession. Then arrested. then lynched.

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Israel accidentally killed those people and children. I think they should have waited for a better time to get him when there weren't as many civilians around. But he was purposefully hiding himself among a lot of civilians and children to forestall any IDF attempt on his life. Look it up. That is a war crime.

Not a war crime Jake would be able to discern. But hopefully to some readers here, it will seem logical and obvious.

As for Jake's "couple militants," let's look at who the IDF killed: Salah Shehade

Here are just two among hundreds of attacks against Israelis that Shehade was involved with: An attack at a religious school in a settlement in Gaza in March '02 that left five Israeli students dead.

Yes, that's five children who were not accidentally killed, but purposely targeted.

An attack on an Israeli outpost in January '02 in which four soldiers were killed. Shehade saw it as a mark of honor for Palestinian youths, willing to volunteer for suicide attacks. He supported them fully in this path, and even established a "youth wing" within Hamas that provided military education and training for youths preparing for suicide missions. Shehade also provided the principles for the religious approval for using women and young girls as suicide terrorists.

On July 23, 2002, Israeli forces killed Salah Shehade when they bombed his house in Gaza City.

So this is the BEST EXAMPLE Jake can come up with to show how brutal the IDF is? An example that involves Palestinian torture of a Palestinian, execution, and lynching? An example in which the IDF execute a known mass murderer who was planning new attacks?

Its horrible that those kids got killed in that apartment building. The IDF was trying to stop a killer, not pile up the bodies. Shehade was piling the dead bodies of Jews up as high as he could. And Hamas is still doing it.