It was tragic that the little 13 year old schoolgirl died when members of the IDF opened fire and killed her. But who is to blame?

Steve Argue would have us believe that it was "part of a deliberate pattern of targeting children for murder by the Zionist military."

First, if its deliberate, then why do all the directives given to IDF soldiers instruct them to take all efforts to avoid civilian deaths? Steve would have us believe that EVERY IDF member is keeping the REAL policy of the IDF secret. That's 186,500 troops and 30,000 reservists. Is this likely?

Next, he accuses me, a mother of three children herself, of having said that killing little girls is good (Steve has no children). I urge people to scroll back to see what I really said. There is nothing good at all about this situation. I just didn't rush in knee-jerk, string 'em up, judge/jury/executioner-style to automatically blame Israel. Note, CT has not rushed in to defend Israel either at this point, no doubt waiting for all of the information to be known before he draws HIS conclusion.

CONSIDER THIS:

We KNOW that there have been over 100 suicide bombers who have been successful(?!), many of them were under age 18. Many more who were caught before they could cause any harm. We know that recruiters started to use female suicide bombers at some point. In the Jenin incursion of 2002, a 10 year old boy was used as a suicide bomber.

None of us really knows what happened on October 5th. We can only look at the evidence and listen to the different witness statements, and wait to hear what the investigators and the courts say.

We must sort out what is possible, what is likely, and what is certain.

We can't ever get closer to the truth than that.

It's possible the IDF saw a little girl in the forbidden zone and saw it as the perfect opportunity to kill yet another Palestinian child. Its possible, but not likely.

It is possible that Iman al-Hams was recruited to be a suicide bomber. It's more than possible. It's likely.

It's possible that she was told there was a bomb in the bag when there wasn't. All parties agree, there was no bomb in her backpack.

All parties agree she walked into a forbidden zone and was warned to leave.

All parties agree, she dropped her backpack before she was shot.

Again I ask. Was the place where she was killed directly on the route to her school or was she way off the track? If she was way off the track, that means its likely she was put up to it.

If she was put up to it by cynical adults, who wanted to use her bullet-ridden body for all the PR it would generate, and all the anti-Israel sentiment it would generate, then the true culprits are those adults who put her up to it. If this is true, then that means she WAS murdered with the murderers being the adults who put her up to it.

One thing we all know for certain. If she was put up to it, then the murderers were Palestinian.